What Pop Culture Can Teach You About Science
Neil deGrasse Tyson will use any means necessary—including zombies—to help people learn about science.
In his new, richly illustrated book, StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond, the ebullient astrophysicist takes us on a new journey through the cosmos, during which he expounds on subjects as diverse as zombies, cooking in space, and whether life may have begun on Mars.
Talking to National Geographic from New York City, his hometown, Tyson explains why he had to chart his own path to becoming a scientist; how reaching Proxima b would take us a thousand human generations; and why the next horizon in astrophysics will be dark matter.
I never have those thoughts. What’s your race? I’m in the human race. That’s how I view
