RocketSTEM Issue #6 - March 2014 | Page 22

Image: Fox Broadcasting Tyson reduces the most complex ideas to something shockingly intuitive. He does this not by dumbing the material down, but by elevating your aptitude; by transforming your perspective. by which you come to the information. He transforms the profound into the practical and then back again. Neil is a vivacious but always shockingly humble science evangelist, who nearly always eschews political agendas for the simpler and perhaps even more effective search for that elusive eureka moment that will cut through the flotsam and jetsam of our modern brains and hit us right where it can most elevate. It is not hard to see why – though their tone and delivery are li