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Above: my favorite picture of Neil deGrasse Tyson ever. 

“The man is more excited about science than most people ever are about anything in their entire lives.

Tyson believes that raising the public’s science literacy is crucial to our economic future—and he says we can start, as he did, by looking up.”

Emphasis mine. I think it’s crucial to our entire survival, really. 

Read the whole article. I wish things had gone better for him at UT.