You don’t have to be an astrophysicist to appreciate science literacy, but it helps.
Parenting advice from Neil deGrasse Tyson:
I’m impressed by how he focuses on the process of creating critical thinkers, not just a robotic-spouters of science factoids.
If you would like to learn more about astronomy and all things out-of-this-world,check out the StarTalk Radio Show.
astromny? Was that deliberate?
Nope. Not deliberate! Spell check and I need to be better friends. So sorry.
Nothing to be sorry about. Great video btw. I wish I had somebody like him when I was growing up. You have no idea on the amount of woo woo I had to endure from grown ups when I was a kid.
Is the moon made of green cheese? Why are we part of The Milky Way?
It’s Ali G-astronomy
Hmmm gonna have to work on this one *gets his coat*
When I was growing up televisions were few and far between and we had no car. So entertainment was playing and reading, which i have to admit I found dificult. But,at weekends, if it was fine we would catch a bus and then walk through the countryside.
It was during these ‘excursions’ that I learned about grasses, wild flowers and trees, picked blackberries and billberries (small blueberries) and on one occasion my dad found the nest of what was probably an escaped Guinea Fowl; we took some eggs and left the others (delicious). Unfortunately astromony was not on the agenda but the more reaidly available world was. It was a great grounding for what became a life-long interest in the natural world, and what ‘floats’ above it.
Although we took our children on walks and taught them the best that we could, it is very sad to see just how few parents or children get to enjoy ‘the great outdoors’.