Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Astrophysics for The Rest of Us

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 4, 2017

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History, director of the Hayden Planetarium, host of StarTalk, and the author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (W. W. Norton & Company, 2017), offers an introduction to time and space for people who are too busy to "read fat books, yet nonetheless seek a conduit to the cosmos."

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