A keepsake from my several appearances in video Daily Doubles.
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And now, one last clue:
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KNOWLEDGE for $1,000
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Answer:
“He nurtured a Television safe-space for smart people.’
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Question:
“Who was Alex Trebek (1940-2020) ?”
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Farewell, patron saint of geeks. Jeopardy host since 1984
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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[Ultra Deep Field, Hubble Space Telescope 2003. @nasa ]
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Called when I learned that Harlem Hospital Center (of the @NYCHealthSystem) added educators to their list of Vaccine recipients.
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While there, I was honored to meet their fearless CEO, Eboné Carrington, who has led the community’s engagement in their Vaccine program.
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[Photos: Philip Cooke, Harlem Hospital]
van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”, Saint Rémy de Provence, France
[Museum of Modern Art, NYC]
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Analysis of the crescent Moon and Venus, reveals that the painting captures the early morning hours near the Summer Solstice, 1889 — just before sunrise.
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So for me, it’s “The Starry Dawn”
van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”, Saint Rémy de Provence, France
[Museum of Modern Art, NYC]
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Analysis of the crescent Moon and Venus, reveals that the painting captures the early morning hours near the Summer Solstice, 1889 — just before sunrise.
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So for me, it’s “The Starry Dawn”
Santa doesn’t know Zoology:
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Both male & female Reindeer grow antlers. But all male Reindeer lose their antlers in the late fall, well-before Christmas.
So Santa’s Reindeer, which all sport antlers, are therefore all female, which means Rudolf has been misgendered.
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For those among you who, after all these years, still carry a grudge about my role in Pluto’s demotion, please know that since then, Pluto & I have become good friends.
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So if Pluto can handle the truth, then so can you.
[Showing Pluto to Pluto. Disney World, Orlando Florida, Oct 2009]
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The imitable @WilliamShatner just completed his 90th trip around the Sun.
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That’s 52,600,000,000 miles — a distance that Warp Factor 1 gets you in about three days.
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Happy Birthday dude!
We assemble Into tribes based on politics, religion, skin color, language, education, birthplace, wealth, & gender expression. Yet COVID-19 reminds us we’re all the same.
The virus doesn’t discriminate, even if we do.
Seems to me, if you can get the citizens of a Democracy to no longer agree on what is objectively true in the world, then you have conquered them with all the strength of an invading army.
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[The Battle, by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)]
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Though we are not related, her mother was friends with my grandmother in the West Indies, with strongly resonant struggles and triumphs.
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Farewell to a force of nature unto herself — in person, on stage, and on the screen. Cicely Tyson, RIP (1924-2021)
A Tech Innovations panel on which I served for the @DeptofDefense, along with Brett Goldstein and Katie Olson, deputy director for Defense Digital Services, in Augusta, Georgia.
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…and, of course, Bernie.
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NASA Scientists & Engineers successfully landed a rover & helicopter on planet Mars, where it’s 100 degrees below zero, 120 million miles away.
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On that same day it was cold in Texas, and millions of people lost electricity from a failure in the state’s power grid.
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Conclusion: Maybe NASA, and not politicians, should run Texas
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Merry Equinox to all residents of planet Earth. On this day, Earth’s tilted axis points neither towards nor away from the Sun.
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Astronomically, that gives us Spring, north of the equator, and Autumn, south of it.
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Also 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of nighttime – worldwide.
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But if you check your sunrise/sunset tables, you will notice slightly more than 12 hours of sunlight for today. Mostly caused by the refraction of sunlight entering Earth’s atmosphere from space.
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When you see the Sun rise or set, what you actually see is the location of the Sun’s refracted light, and not the location of the Sun itself, adding multiple minutes of unearned daylight — daily — that wouldn’t otherwise be there.
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[Sunset over the Grand Canyon (NDTyson 1973). Pentax SP500. 210mm zoom telephoto. Kodacolor 100]
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Today, March 28, 2021, just missed being Easter Sunday.
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Rules of the Gregorian Calendar (begun in 1582) place Easter on the first Sunday AFTER the first Full Moon AFTER the March Equinox. Full Moon occurred today, not yesterday, so Easter must wait another week. And it will.
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[Stock photo of the Full Moon]
Santa Knows Physics:
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Of all colors, Red light penetrates fog best. That’s why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.
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Founding member of MOTOWN’s Supremes, whose songs lifted so many of us up in an era when we were reaching for a voice of our own in an unwelcoming world.
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Mary Wilson, RIP (1944-2021)
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March 26, 2021 — Leonard Nimoy’s 90th Birthday.
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While bingeing the Twilight Zone, I caught him in the 1961 episode “A Quality of Mercy”. A small role, but he cut a distinct profile.
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We met just once – when the Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise arrived piggyback at JFK airport, back in 2012.
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March 26, 2021 — Leonard Nimoy’s 90th Birthday.
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While bingeing the Twilight Zone, I caught him in the 1961 episode “A Quality of Mercy”. A small role, but he cut a distinct profile.
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We met just once – when the Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise arrived piggyback at JFK airport, back in 2012.
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March 26, 2021 — Leonard Nimoy’s 90th Birthday.
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While bingeing the Twilight Zone, I caught him in the 1961 episode “A Quality of Mercy”. A small role, but he cut a distinct profile.
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We met just once – when the Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise arrived piggyback at JFK airport, back in 2012.
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As an educator, I care more where you are going than where you have been.
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[Photo: iPhone 6s; Art: Anthony McCall 2018 – “Solid Light Works”]
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As the area of our knowledge grows, so too does the perimeter of our ignorance.l
[Hubble Telescope; Spiral Galaxy M51, morphed for Jacket cover to book Cosmic Queries]
Cosmos: Possible Worlds — “Seven Wonders of the New World”
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The 13th (and final) episode — my personal favorite — airs tonight on FOX, 9pm ET. And if interested, beginning tomorrow, all 13 episodes stream on Hulu.
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In my judgement, 2020 desperately needs this.
My 92 year old mother remembers 79 years ago, in email to family, December 7, 2020:
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“The Pearl Harbor attack seems like yesterday. FDR via radio calmed the nation. Sang patriotic songs at school. Had air raid drills. Hid under desks. Our armed forces segregated.”
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Mom, keepin’ it real.
![Neil deGrasse Tyson Instagram - ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ [Ultra Deep Field, Hubble Space Telescope 2003. @nasa ]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/NeildeGrasseTyson-109-150x150.jpg)
![Neil deGrasse Tyson Instagram - ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Called when I learned that Harlem Hospital Center (of the @NYCHealthSystem) added educators to their list of Vaccine recipients. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ While there, I was honored to meet their fearless CEO, Eboné Carrington, who has led the community’s engagement in their Vaccine program. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ [Photos: Philip Cooke, Harlem Hospital]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/NeildeGrasseTyson-118-150x150.jpg)
![Neil deGrasse Tyson Instagram - van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”, Saint Rémy de Provence, France [Museum of Modern Art, NYC] ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Analysis of the crescent Moon and Venus, reveals that the painting captures the early morning hours near the Summer Solstice, 1889 — just before sunrise. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So for me, it’s “The Starry Dawn”](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/NeildeGrasseTyson-156-150x150.jpg)
![Neil deGrasse Tyson Instagram - van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”, Saint Rémy de Provence, France [Museum of Modern Art, NYC] ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Analysis of the crescent Moon and Venus, reveals that the painting captures the early morning hours near the Summer Solstice, 1889 — just before sunrise. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So for me, it’s “The Starry Dawn”](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/NeildeGrasseTyson-128-150x150.jpg)
![Neil deGrasse Tyson Instagram - ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ For those among you who, after all these years, still carry a grudge about my role in Pluto’s demotion, please know that since then, Pluto & I have become good friends. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So if Pluto can handle the truth, then so can you. [Showing Pluto to Pluto. Disney World, Orlando Florida, Oct 2009]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/NeildeGrasseTyson-110-150x150.jpg)
![Neil deGrasse Tyson Instagram - Seems to me, if you can get the citizens of a Democracy to no longer agree on what is objectively true in the world, then you have conquered them with all the strength of an invading army. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ [The Battle, by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/NeildeGrasseTyson-122-150x150.jpg)
![Neil deGrasse Tyson Instagram - ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Merry Equinox to all residents of planet Earth. On this day, Earth’s tilted axis points neither towards nor away from the Sun. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Astronomically, that gives us Spring, north of the equator, and Autumn, south of it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Also 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of nighttime - worldwide. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But if you check your sunrise/sunset tables, you will notice slightly more than 12 hours of sunlight for today. Mostly caused by the refraction of sunlight entering Earth’s atmosphere from space. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When you see the Sun rise or set, what you actually see is the location of the Sun’s refracted light, and not the location of the Sun itself, adding multiple minutes of unearned daylight — daily — that wouldn't otherwise be there. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ [Sunset over the Grand Canyon (NDTyson 1973). Pentax SP500. 210mm zoom telephoto. Kodacolor 100]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/NeildeGrasseTyson-114-150x150.jpg)
![Neil deGrasse Tyson Instagram - ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today, March 28, 2021, just missed being Easter Sunday. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Rules of the Gregorian Calendar (begun in 1582) place Easter on the first Sunday AFTER the first Full Moon AFTER the March Equinox. Full Moon occurred today, not yesterday, so Easter must wait another week. And it will. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ [Stock photo of the Full Moon]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/NeildeGrasseTyson-111-150x150.jpg)
![Neil deGrasse Tyson Instagram - ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ As an educator, I care more where you are going than where you have been. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ [Photo: iPhone 6s; Art: Anthony McCall 2018 - “Solid Light Works”]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/NeildeGrasseTyson-116-150x150.jpg)
![Neil deGrasse Tyson Instagram - ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ As the area of our knowledge grows, so too does the perimeter of our ignorance.l [Hubble Telescope; Spiral Galaxy M51, morphed for Jacket cover to book Cosmic Queries]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/NeildeGrasseTyson-115-150x150.jpg)
