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Kind of background checks, what kinds of guns people are allowed to have. i believe thats where the majority of american people, are we have to be safe from this madness. >> you know congressman, what do you tell people who are watching, who maybe have called their lawmakers, that have called for some kind of gun reform, but maybe at this point they feel like its a lost cause. for example, you had the sheriff in the press conference this afternoon, and he was asked about the gun violence epidemi...

Like an easy sort of cop out answer, and it has to do with how science is taught in the schools. its currently taught as a body of information, a satchel of facts that are imparted upon you and the you regurgitate that for an exam. thats an aspect of science, but its not the most important part of science. the most important part of science is knowing how to question things and knowing when an answer has emerged that represents, sort of, an objective truth about this world. and if you think scie...

The most important part of science is knowing how to question things and knowing when an answer has emerged that represents, sort of, an objective truth about this world. and if you think science is just that one research paper that reports the one result that you either like or dont like, no, thats not how science works. its notjust a block of facts. its not a block of facts nor is it any one research paper. if you have a brilliant idea and you test it and it unearths so much of what has been k...

Starsystems, planets, and possibly conditions for life as we know it. or, even better yet, life as we dont know it. but we sort of know one of the fundamentals, i mean, the national academy of sciences�* recent report on what is coming up next, over the next decade in space exploration... by the way, we do that each decade, it is one of the things we are proudest of. its called a decadal survey. i know. we get together and we say, "lets prioritise ten years�* of money." i know. and heres wha...

Neil degrasse tyson, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. your dayjob is being an astrophysicist, but you are also one of americas leading champions for science. so you tell me why there appears to be such a strain of scepticism among so many americans toward the basics of scientific knowledge. i dont have a good answer for that and i poked around in the ether for what could be behind it and im going to give what sounds like an easy sort of cop out answer, and it has to do with how science is taught ...

His special subject is astrophysics, but his mission goes much wider, to get us all to respect scientific fact. so hows that going? neil degrasse tyson, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. your dayjob is being an astrophysicist, but you are also one of americas leading champions for science. so you tell me why there appears to be such a strain of scepticism among so many americans toward the basics of scientific knowledge. i dont have a good answer for that and i poked around in the ether for what c...

Formation of next—generation starsystems, planets, and possibly conditions for life as we know it. or, even better yet, life as we dont know it. but we sort of know one of the fundamentals, i mean, the national academy of sciences�* recent report what is coming up next over the next decade in space exploration... by the way, we do that each decade, its one of the things we are proudest of. its called a decadal survey. i know. we get together and say lets prioritise ten years�* of money. i ...

For the edge of the universe also means its tuned for peering deep within gas clouds of our own milky way galaxy and its within the gas clouds that you have the formation of next—generation star systems, planets, and possibly conditions for life as we know it. or, even better yet, life as we dont know it, to find. but we sort of know one of the fundamentals, i mean, the national academy of sciences recent report on whats coming up next over the next decade in space exploration... by the way, w...

A satchel of facts that are imparted upon you and then you regurgitate that for an exam. thats an aspect of science, but its not the most important part of science. the most important part of science is knowing how to question things and knowing when an answer has emerged that represents, sort of, an objective truth about this world. and if you think science is just that one research paper that reports the one result that you either like or dont like, no, thats not how science works. its notjust...

Are gonna set humanity down a path to determine whether we are alone." yes, were gonna get an answer in the sense that, i dont know if were alone, but in every way we can imagine were not alone we are going to perform experiments to test it. and thats whats going to unfold over the next years. and it seems to be... on mars and on the icy moons ofjupiter, where beneath, its kept warm from stress from jupiters gravity and the tugging of other moons, deep beneath the frozen surface theres oceans of...