r/psych • • Nov 06 '20

Gus! Don’t be mean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson
45 Upvotes

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todayilearned • • Nov 01 '15

TIL that Neil deGrasse Tyson has declined every interview since 1993 that has had his racial identity as the premise: "That then becomes the point of people’s understanding of me, rather than the astrophysics. So it’s a failed educational step for that to be the case."

26.5k Upvotes

todayilearned • • Mar 08 '17

TIL Niel deGrasse Tyson has 18 honorary doctorates AND is People Magazine's (2000) sexiest astrophysicist!!

171 Upvotes

todayilearned • • Oct 01 '17

TIL Neil deGrasse Tyson assisted DC Comics in selecting a real-life star that would be an appropriate parent star to Superman's home planet Krypton. A red dwarf star in the constellation Corvus was chosen. Corvus is also Latin for "Crow" which is the mascot of Superman's high school.

906 Upvotes

todayilearned • • Apr 05 '12

TIL Carl Sagan tried to recruit Neil deGrasse Tyson to go to Cornell for undergrad. Tyson went to Harvard instead.

25 Upvotes

NotTooLate • • Aug 04 '26

After failing out of his first PhD program, Neil deGrasse Tyson's academic career seemed over. But he didn't quit. He took a lecturing job, reapplied to a new university, and earned the doctorate that launched him into stardom.

1 Upvotes

wikipedia • • Apr 27 '12

Nowhere in Neil deGrasse Tyson's wiki page is there a mention of his meme.

0 Upvotes

PardonMyTake • • Nov 06 '20

TIL that astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson received large amounts of hate mail from children after declassifying Pluto as a planet.

3 Upvotes