...Chabris and Simons start off their piece with Neil Degrasse Tyson an astrophysicist and host misremembering a quote said by former President Bush. Further on into the article, they present a film and a show that showed how people fail to acknowledge that people can remember the same event differently. They then bring in different research from a paper published by cognitive psychologists, and a series experiments conducted by psychologist Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett. And towards the end, they go back to using real life examples of faulty memories from politicians Mr. Bush and Mrs. Clinton. With the constant use of research, reports, and experiments used to support their argument they seem to be appealing to the logical reasoning of the readers...
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...Is having knowledge or being willing to think and learn valuable? Neil Degrasse Tyson addressed this topic in a speech to his peers. Neil Degrasse Tyson is widely known and respected for his intelligence. These factors bring credibility to his ideas of basic thinking and knowledge. In his speech, Tyson was trying to convey the message of allowing yourself to deepen your thinking without doubt. This means being unbothered by norms and letting yourself reach below the surface and think in ways that are unconventional. He advises us to think freely, rather than confining ourselves to right and wrong answers. As a society we have decided that there are only clear cut right answers and everything that isn't correct is totally wrong. Tyson is encouraging...
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...The State of South Africa’s rap/hip-hop as it relates to our current times. I agree with astrophysicist, Mr. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s comments; “that rap goes through various artistic phases depending on the times” and with this piece of writing I will critically consider the state of South African rap/hip-hop. Personally I think there is a distinct difference between Rap music and Hip-hop music. Rap music is more like poetry; it is underground, deep and has meaning and substance. Mostly used to tell positive and inspirational stories and convey deep messages from artists to consumer. Whilst Hip-hop on the other hand is so called “turn up” music, used to make people dance, brag about woman, cars and money, sell the idea of sex , basically music without substance that nothing positive can be taken from it. Some websites even have different categories for Rap and Hip-hop music when wanting to download the music, to further prove my observation and opinion. “Hip-hop cleans out at SAMA’s”, Sunday Times headline. In South Africa Hip-hop/Rap music is currently dominating the music industry, it is the “it” genre at the moment in the country. Its artist get paid the most, are booked at almost every gig, all over the airwaves, it is basically all that you hear on radio these days. At our current time Hip-hop/rap is all about egos, money and who has more fans/awards hence there is what these cool hip-hop heads call “Beef” which according to the dictionary is meat from a cow or to make...
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...Orbiting the moon during the Apollo 8 mission and actually landing there in July of 1969; Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins were the first people on the moon. That was of course when Neil Armstrong said some of the most inspirational, and famous words in history, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” The Johnson Space Center was given the task of developing a lighter breathing system for firefighters. They were around thirty pounds before 1971, and the engineers there managed to make a system that was roughly one-third the weight, which made the firefighters’ jobs a whole lot easier. Sometimes, they would go inside of a burning building without their breathing equipment because it got in the way so bad. Rather than having to fight their breathing apparatus, the firefighters could do what they were supposed to do, fight the fires. The scientists at...
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...Unit 6 Blue Prints NASA A PROBLEM SOLVER I. Introduction: Space, the Final Frontier. Thesis Statement: Many predict funding NASA could solve some of the major economic crises we have, bringing us a solution in the face of extinction or possibly a new planet to live if needed. Funding NASA could be the most important thing we do for ourselves, our children and quite possibly the human species. II. The Big Idea 1. What is the big idea? A public program that would educate and help support NASA obtaining a bigger budget. 2. Who and where can they reach out to? List or people and where they could be found that would participate in this program. (Everybody) 3. Why would a program like this be so important? III. Economic Problem Solver 1. How can NASA solve our Economic Problem? A trickledown effect that we could be happy about. 2. NASA receiving a high budget could solve our money issues, education issues and job issues. IV. What has NASA done for us? 1. Commercial Products and New Science. List the day to day items that NASA has brought, as well as some of the bigger products and solutions. 2. Safer roads, refrigerator water filters, LASIK, scratch resistant lenses, the need to miniaturize everything. V. Space Travel 1. Public Space Travel a real possibility. NASA does not have enough funds in order to provide anything like this. Most of the technology for Public Space travel has been brought on by private companies. 2. Private Companies expanded to provide because...
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...Is our universe a reality or merely a simulation? Famous astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson answers that it may very well be the latter. The theory on whether or not the universe as we see it is not a reality has been a decades-long discussion, with astronomers and astrophysicists debating both sides of the coin. Tyson, who has been the Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a popular television show host, is of the opinion that this is a vast computer simulation. The Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate on the matter was held at the American Museum of Natural History. Tyson served as host and moderator, while a panel that of experts discussed the pros and cons of this theory. During the debate featured on the...
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...In the lecture “The Pluto Files” leads by Tom Hothem, he shows a video that demonstrate how Neil DeGrasse Tyson, an astronomer scientist and director of Hayden Planetarium, goes around the United States to figure out the truth about Pluto. In the film, “The Pluto Files”, he talks about how he is criticized for putting Pluto far away from the other nine planets and for making Pluto’s image tiny. Neil believes that Pluto is not a planet because he notices how Pluto is crossing Neptune’s orbit for 20 years when it is impossible for any planet to do so. From there, Neil travels to Clyde Tombaugh’s hometown, New Mexico, to see the reasons that people are outrage for Neil’s belief that Pluto is not a planet. As Neil interview people in Mexico,...
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...immediately I was transported back to those amnesty marches. I stood with people of all races, arms interlocked with the same goal in mind. We did not march as individuals but as one. I only wish that I had learned how to empathize sooner so I could have played a bigger role in another groups fight. Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson said it best in an interview with PETA. He was quoted saying "Humans aren’t as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth, so maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy” (1). Although it is not part of the current curriculum, I credit Composition 1301 for my cognitive transformation; specifically, assignment C2. I am now more socially aware and willing to engage in thoughtful conversation about the struggles that others face. I am no longer quick to dismiss someone's fight without proper thought. I am now more than willing to stand with my fellow man in a fight for what is right, not just for what is convenient. Works Cited Dr. Tyson, Neil DeGrasse. PETA Interview. 12 Jan. 2012 Hojat M, et al. “Physician empathy: Definition, components, measurement, and relationship to gender and specialty.” American Journal of Psychiatry 159 (2002): 1563–9 ...
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...After I watched the first episode that day, I was fascinated by wonders of the universe as well as the mysteries that lie within it. I became fascinated with the host of the series, Neil deGrasse Tyson, through the amount of knowledge that he portrayed in the series and his perspective on the world around us. I research Neil degrasse Tyson’s profession and I became introduced to the world of Astrophysics, the branch of space science that applies the laws of physics and chemistry to explain the birth, life and death of stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae and other objects in the universe. To me, Astrophysics became the best way to discover the true nature of the world, a concept that I would previously answer with...
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...In Neil deGrasse Tyson’s claim, Tyson tries to convince the reader that empathy is needed more in humans and our formal education. The first sentence states that humans lack the ability to empathize with others, including animals. It isn’t very difficult to find a few flaws in this statement the first time you read it. On the other hand, his second claim was a little bit difficult to consider. He insisted on empathy being in our formal education, which is like its own class. The fallacy of Tyson’s statement is because of the way he arranges his words and how he comes off strong. After some thought, answers are found through human empathy, education and choices. Tyson made humans seem disrespectful, selfish and self-centered, which created a kind of harsh start. If people didn’t have empathy, we wouldn’t have our doctors, our engineers and our counselors. Yes, there are people who don’t have a lot or any empathy . For example, the devil. The bible stated that he wanted to have the power and ended up dropping to hell. He didn’t consider his other brother angels, his father, or the ones he tries to pull from God. Although humans have flaws too, they also have each other. If humans took a chance...
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...express more funds into space program, not just for NASA, but for humanities benefits as a species. October 4th, 1957, The Soviet Union launched the first ever rocket into space: Sputnik-1. This event in human history brought about immeasurable panic within the American people, and thus, NASA was born. As we all know, this development of a national space agency helped bolster the space program, and then on February 20, 1961 The united states launched a rocket containing astronaut, john Glenn, who made 3 orbits around the earth, proving our ability to apply complicated space travel, although we still had less overall space time than the Soviet Union. Finally, on July 16, 1970, The Apollo 11 rocket launched into space bearing astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, the very first group of humans to ever make contact with the moon, by doing nothing but the greatest: they set foot on the moon! But the common interest in space exploration was evident between the soviet union and the united states, providing a solid ground for which we could place our cooperation. Later in history, on september 2, 1993, The bitter enemies: The U.S. and the former soviet union (which collapsed in 1991) signed the Russia Ink Space Pact. The Space Pact joined the two agencies -NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency- in every endeavor they faced, thus creating the first, and only, International Space Station. This lead to a new age of seemingly inconceivable cooperation between...
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...Nearly eighty percent of Americans are carrying a computer in their pocket that is 120 million times faster than the computers that NASA used to send the first humans to the moon. This advance in technology only spans about fifty years. I can open a social media app on my iPhone and within ten seconds send a message directly to the likes of Bill Gates, Michael Jordan, or Neil deGrasse Tyson. The opportunities and possibilities with this technology are virtually limitless, and exponentially increasing as time passes. This is the world we now live in, the world of the smart phone. Running low on diapers for junior? Want Chick-Fil-A for lunch but don’t have time to drive there and back? Want to know how far you’ve walked today? Don’t fret, your...
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...the atmosphere which then leads to an increase in the overall temperature of the Earth as well as the Earth’s ocean. (30 sec) There is a surplus of data that supports climate change is in fact real and mostly caused by human activities. For example, NASA states that nine of the ten warmest days on record have been in this century. Although we may have mountains of data proving that climate change is in fact real, we still have people who vehemently deny that it exists. For instance, former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz states, “A number of scientists… disregard the science and data and instead push political ideology.” Ted Cruz believes that 97% of climatologists are pushing a political agenda, that scientist such as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye are pushing a “political ideology” versus reporting the actual scientific data. (45 sec)...
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...Let’s face it: 2017 has been bizarre. The Oscars mix-up for Best Picture, Donald Trump’s unforeseen election win, and the onslaught of devastating natural disasters this year are strong evidence to prove that we are living in a malfunctioning computer simulation. This may sound crazy, but many respected scientists agree that we are likely living in a simulation of reality. Neil deGrasse Tyson, renowned astrophysicist and author, claims that there is a 50-50 chance that our existence is a program on someone else’s hard drive. Even though humans and chimpanzees share more than 98% of their DNA, there is a significant gap between their intelligences. Tyson believes there is a high probability that a being whose intelligence is far superior to humans’...
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...that it has a larger number of neurons in the cerebral cortex than any other animal. Human brains average 86 billion neurons, 16 billion located in the cerebral cortex, which give humans superior cognitive abilities. She asserts that humans set themselves apart from other animals one and half million years ago with the invention of cooking, enabling humans to get all the calories (energy) they need in just a few sittings instead of having to continuously eat all day. She contends that by being able to provide for our calorie (energy) needs from cooking we were able to develop the largest number of neurons in the cerebral cortex and that is the simplest explanation of our cognitive abilities. The second video that I watched was Neil DeGrasse Tyson on...
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