Neil deGrasse Tyson in Conversation with Fareed Zakaria: Merlin’s Tour of the Universe - The 92nd Street Y, New York
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Neil deGrasse Tyson in Conversation with Fareed Zakaria: Merlin’s Tour of the Universe

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Fareed Zakaria
Merlin’s Tour of the Universe

Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist, bestselling author, science icon and the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History, revisits his very first book with a new, updated and revised edition of Merlin’s Tour of the Universe and takes us and his readers on an entertaining and edifying tour of the universe with Merlin, a timeless visitor from Planet Omniscia in the Andromeda Galaxy as he — with help from Merlin’s friends including da Vinci, Magellan, Newton, Einstein, and Hubble — answers questions big and small about the universe with authentic science.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator …

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. In 2017 he became the first American to win the prestigious Stephen Hawking Medal for science communication. He is the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. From 2006 to 2011 he hosted the educational science television show NOVA ScienceNow on PBS, and in March 2014 he became host of the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, an update of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Tyson has written several New York Times bestselling nonfiction books.

Fareed Zakaria

The host of Fareed Zakaria GPS, Fareed Zakaria is a columnist for The Washington Post and the author …

Fareed Zakaria

The host of Fareed Zakaria GPS, Fareed Zakaria is a columnist for The Washington Post and the author of In Defense of a Liberal Education and The Post-American World. His highly rated Fareed Zakaria GPS is an international and domestic affairs program that airs Sundays on CNN/U.S. and around the world on CNN International. The forum is a television destination for global newsmakers, U.S. politicians, CEOs, and thought-leading authors and journalists. He is based in New York.

In addition to anchoring his weekend program on CNN, Zakaria regularly contributes his thoughtful analysis of world events and public affairs to CNN.com, quarterly CNN/TIME magazine specials, and other programming across CNN Worldwide.

TIME featured his article,“"How to Restore the American Dream,” as its cover story on October 21, 2010. In 2012, Zakaria was honored with a George Foster Peabody Award for this special. Zakaria is a highly-regarded author. The Post-American World was published in May 2008 and became an immediate bestseller in the U.S. and around the world; an updated version, The Post-American World 2.0 was published in May 2011. His work, The Future of Freedom, was also an international bestseller published in 2007, has been translated into over 20 languages. From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role was published in 1999. Zakaria was editor of Newsweek International from 2000 to 2010 and a columnist for Newsweek. Prior to his tenure at Newsweek, Zakaria was managing editor of Foreign Affairs, a leading journal of international politics and economics from 1992 to 2010. He has served as an analyst for ABC News, a roundtable member of the ABC News political affairs program This Week with George Stephanopoulos, and as the host of Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria on PBS. Zakaria has won numerous awards and been named to various lists, including Foreign Policy magazine’s list of “Top 100 Global Thinkers” and Newsweek magazine’s “Power 50” list of the most influential political figures of 2010. In 1999, Esquire magazine named Zakaria as “One of the 21 Most Important People of the 21st Century.” He serves on the boards of Yale University, the Council of Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and Shakespeare and Company, a theater group in the Berkshires. He has received honorary degrees from Brown, the University of Miami, and Oberlin College, among other educational institutions. Zakaria earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a doctorate in political science from Harvard University.

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