Friday, February 13th, 2009

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson recounts the controversy about America's favorite former planet -- Pluto. He talks with Ira in the NPR studio in New York about the new rules for planetary status. En Español. (Credits: Radio segment produced by Annette Heist. Video produced by Shelley DuBois.) Viewed 9335 times. See More Videos

Where should NASA be headed? How can we improve science education in the US? And is Pluto a planet, or not?

In this segment, Ira talks with astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson about Pluto, teaching science, and more. Tyson is Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the current host of the PBS television program NOVA scienceNOW.