'StarTalk's' Neil deGrasse Tyson on 'patriotic' Edward Snowden, finding the geek within

Maybe it's because he knows a thing or two about the space-time continuum that the rest of us civilians don't, but it sometimes seems as if Neil deGrasse Tyson is everywhere at once. A trained astrophysicist and the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, Tyson has also become an ubiquitous... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

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'StarTalk's' Neil deGrasse Tyson on 'patriotic' Edward Snowden, finding the geek within

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