Astrophysicist and "Cosmos" presenter Neil seGrasse Tyson took to Twitter yesterday to deliver a brutal takedown of the Trump administration's newly unveiled budget that cut everything other than military spending:Having spent his entire professional career as a scientist, Tyson ...read more
Astrophysicist and Cosmos star Neil deGrasse Tyson was already a target of the anti-intellectual right, but a raft of new charges against the nerd-tastic Tyson add lying liarhood to his prior convictions on numerous counts of uppitiness, and they're trying to get normal people to ...read more
If recent history and statistics have taught us anything, it's that life is too short to take unacceptable risks like skydiving, unprotected sex, and wearing a hoodie. However, while avoiding these risky behaviors is obvious to most white people, black folks don't seem to be ...read more
Conservatives hate Neil deGrasse Tyson because he's smarter than them, but on this week's Real Time, the Cosmos host also proved he's smarter than liberals, too.The National Review's cover story this week features an article on the irrepressible astrophysicist headlined "Smarter ...read more
It won't surprise anyone to learn that Fox News has a bug up its ass about Neil deGrasse Tyson. Tyson is brilliant, disregards ridiculous concepts like religious faith and puts his trust almost entirely in provable science, and through his current pop culture status has been able ...read more
Everything you're about to read might be a waste of copy space. That's because it will either confirm what you already know to be 100% true or simply bounce off the titanium hull of your own ignorance, since it's doubtful that you or anyone else is still on-the-fence when it ...read more
Maybe if we're lucky Neil DeGrasse Tyson will be the new face of some kind of revolution within our culture. Maybe his willingness to take a stand in the name of logic and reason and his unwillingness to suffer the fools who believe otherwise -- coupled with his current pop ...read more
I blame Bill Nye. Several weeks ago, Nye thought it'd be a fine idea to debate a well known creationist and founder of the Creation Museum, Ken Ham. On debate points and grasp of reality, Nye absolutely won the debate. But ultimately, Ham was the real winner. Not only did the ...read more
When the news broke that Mumma Kardashian (aka Kris) and Bruce Jenner announced that they’ve decided to call it quits after 22 years, the world collectively and simultaneously shook with disbelief. Surely not them? Their marriage being effectively created from solid rock that ...read more
Check out Gawker trying to figure out why Neil deGrasse Tyson drew a crowd. The guy is a modern era version of Carl Sagan. People are always curious about how the Universe works, and someone who can explain it in entertaining and engaging way will always be popular. Even if the ...read more