(or see Fresh Air rerun in your time zone)

Much good stuff about his background, relevance of SETI etc. He is a worthy successor to Sagan + More, IMO.
Some great observations, from his odd intro to education/the insistence on A's etc.

Most here grok this POV but he's well worth hearing: the whole hour. 'How to sell Science'--by examples from invention fallout of NASA's operations from the first.

That is: the Fox stuff normally broadcast On-Air (back when there was still any consideration of such things as 'public airwaves'.)

My el-cheapo bargain with the Comcast Devil-monopolist includes what used to be KTVU Ch2 'Fox' in this area;
fingers crossed, as I Won't send them any upgrade fees.
Also unclear: if Fox will show reruns on web.

Nothing.. is ever simple.

He seems the most competent (and full-) Successor to Sagan's [Yes!..] perspicuity; can't think of any Science type extant, clearly superior.
Cosmos was ... Revelatory to many, IMO an unprecedented media-type event. Ex:
Some local friends from SF, who moved to the academic ghetto on my St... were biz-types; my connection:
their family had introduced me to Lieder, Bel Canto, obscure composers and much great music. (I fixed their HiFi.)

They had been pretty iggerant of basic stuff, and I'd introduced them to dealing with large numbers via 10ⁿ.
(Hey, from there: you can next de-mystify scary 'logarithms' etc.)
Anyone can do that level of 'exponentials', we see. If someone will just take 5 min. (And skip The Principia!)

Was pleasantly surprised at how much they retained--thanks mainly to Sagan's talent/conversational non-didactic speech (pre-'framing'?).
He might have incrementally increased the IQs of many, at the time. What's THAT 'worth'?
(I Ffrget the latest %Muricans who know if the Sun rotates about the Earth. In 2014, 45 yrs. after moon trips.)

Anticipating some Good Stuff from -Tyson. He had to fight the academics in his early years--no credit for his independent researches, ex-'school'.
(He despises the same aspects of Murican traditional education-theories as do I. And Will create some changes, I wot.)
In his Fresh Air/npr recent comments he described turning-down an offer to 'laud' his early training at school X. Said flatly
~~ You wouldn't Like what I would say about That! Loved. It.

Serendipity: My 2nd summer in NY (Queens) I hung out at the Hayden a lot, too. Still have my small circular 400 yr. calendar from there. Circular slide-rule.
(My Mater, Aunt never grokked the extent of my excursions on the BMT, IRT and Independent subways
--but did (knowingly) 'let me go' alone in evenings to the Goldman Band concerts in Central Park.)

Imagine letting a 9 yo do the same today.. :-/ (We suck in so Many ways, in terms of Real-non-$$-life.)

Dunno if you ever saw Cosmos 'live': did you?

Guess I cut Sagan's mannerisms a bit more slack, though I viewed the series as, for the neophytes and judged it on those apparent results.
Also, didn't pay enough attention to peripheral stuff to catch the Cornell effect; expected hype, though.

(Had already realized the gulf/chasm?? between most folks and anything beyond junk-science.--so my interest was self-serving.)
I mean.. who wants to live amidst folk who see sci. as magick (they don't want to learn about) or fearful-doings (they'd rather imagine about?)

Neutral on Fox's 'lightening' -?- lots of shades on Google, too; there's no 'STP' for color temp across all photogs, right? Gotta see him Live..
(Not that it wouldn't occur to Fox to pander to Its Base, of course--but so blatantly, in 2014?)
Many good posters/quips in that collection,

There is no shame in not knowing.

The problem arises
when irrational thought and attendant behavior
fill the vacuum left by ignorance

Think T. will do fine--exceed Sagan, except extemporaneously perhaps, peripheral to the Show: clearly he doesn't suffer fools at all, and there are many around/in-suits or grungies.


PS: Gotcher Tickets to the '39 Worlds Fair right chere! A bit early por moi to go. $3.75 for face-value $5.40 !!!
(Aunt legacy--seems they used a few of them.) Inside also too: a Ration Coupon for 5# sugar (Rev. 2-44)
If The Doctor times it right, on 6/10/39 George VI + Elizabeth will be there too!

So we're good to go, if the Tardis stays on schedule.