Clip: The Crowd & The Cloud — “Citizen Science in the Digital Age”

Posted on April 6, 2017 at 10:17 am

The new four-part series “The Crowd & The Cloud” is a fascinating look at the remarkable advances of “citizen science” and “crowdsourcing.” Waleed Abdalati, former NASA Chief Scientist, says, “For years you’ve watched science on public television. Now you are invited to do science.” The four episodes will debut on public television’s WORLD Channel on April 6, 13, 20 and 27 and are available for streaming online.

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Coming on PBS: How We Got to Now

Posted on June 20, 2014 at 8:00 am

This fall, a new series on PBS will explore the inventions and ideas that formed our culture and made modern life possible — often leading us in directions the inventors never imagined.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLMCtFon6E0

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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

Posted on June 9, 2014 at 8:00 am

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Lowest Recommended Age:	4th - 6th Grades
MPAA Rating:	Not rated
Profanity:	None
Alcohol/ Drugs:	None
Violence/ Scariness:	Some mildly scary images
Diversity Issues:	Diverse characters
Date Released to Theaters:	2014
Date Released to DVD:	June 9, 2014
Amazon.com ASIN:	B00IWULSTC

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s marvelous “Cosmos” reboot comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray this week and it is well worth adding to every family and classroom library. It is a very worthy successor to Carl Sagan’s classic PBS series of the 80’s, updated to make use of the latest technology and to present the most exciting discoveries about our world and the worlds beyond.

http://vimeo.com/85772236

Dazzling graphics, mind-blowing outer space images, and clear, frank presentation of core principles of the scientific method not only cover what we know but why we know it. We also learn about the fearless men and women who made these discoveries, with nothing but passionate curiosity and fierce intellectual integrity to guide them. We learn that answers are important but that it is questions that drive knowledge forward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpQgfR6H5Yo

Premiering Tonight on Fox: Cosmos with Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Posted on March 9, 2014 at 3:31 pm

Be sure to tune in for the spectacular return of “Cosmos,” hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, premiering tonight on Fox.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBTd9–9VMI

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Cosmos Reboot on Fox and National Geographic Channel

Posted on February 3, 2014 at 8:00 am

Carl Sagan’s stunning “Cosmos” series is being updated for a return to television, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson. It will premiere on Fox March 9 and be rebroadcast on the National Geographic Channel. Bill Moyers writes:

deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist with a gift of explaining complicated ideas simply, says the newCosmos will continue Sagan’s “epic exploration of our place in the universe,” and examine new discoveries of the past four decades.

“We have other stories to tell beyond the ones that went on back then … At the time of the original series, there were no known planets outside of those orbiting the sun. Right now, we’re rising through 1,000 planets happily orbiting stars that are not the sun. So that’s not simply new science. It’s new vistas of thought and imagination,” deGrasse Tyson told Bill Moyers in an interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBTd9–9VMI

In the meantime, take a look at the original series and the extraordinary online archive of Sagan materials at the Library of Congress.