Spend an evening with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of National Geographic Channel's "StarTalk", bestselling author and Director of New York's Hayden Planetarium, for "An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies."
Join Dr. Tyson for an entertaining and enlightening review of all the science that our favorite movies got wrong, combined with some of the stuff they got right, derived from a set of thirty films, from The Wizard of Oz to Mary Poppins to Game of Thrones to Harry Potter to The Lion King. "An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies" incorporates the latest films as well as some classics that you may not have known had any science in them at all.
Dr. Tyson is the fifth head since 1935 of the world-renowned Hayden Planetarium in New York City and the first occupant of its Frederick P. Rose directorship. He is also a research associate of the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Join Dr. Tyson for an entertaining and enlightening review of all the science that our favorite movies got wrong, combined with some of the stuff they got right, derived from a set of thirty films, from The Wizard of Oz to Mary Poppins to Game of Thrones to Harry Potter to The Lion King. "An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies" incorporates the latest films as well as some classics that you may not have known had any science in them at all.
Dr. Tyson is the fifth head since 1935 of the world-renowned Hayden Planetarium in New York City and the first occupant of its Frederick P. Rose directorship. He is also a research associate of the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.
Spend an evening with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of National Geographic Channel's "StarTalk", bestselling author and Director of New York's Hayden Planetarium, for "An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies."
Join Dr. Tyson for an entertaining and enlightening review of all the science that our favorite movies got wrong, combined with some of the stuff they got right, derived from a set of thirty films, from The Wizard of Oz to Mary Poppins to Game of Thrones to Harry Potter to The Lion King. "An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies" incorporates the latest films as well as some classics that you may not have known had any science in them at all.
Dr. Tyson is the fifth head since 1935 of the world-renowned Hayden Planetarium in New York City and the first occupant of its Frederick P. Rose directorship. He is also a research associate of the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Join Dr. Tyson for an entertaining and enlightening review of all the science that our favorite movies got wrong, combined with some of the stuff they got right, derived from a set of thirty films, from The Wizard of Oz to Mary Poppins to Game of Thrones to Harry Potter to The Lion King. "An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies" incorporates the latest films as well as some classics that you may not have known had any science in them at all.
Dr. Tyson is the fifth head since 1935 of the world-renowned Hayden Planetarium in New York City and the first occupant of its Frederick P. Rose directorship. He is also a research associate of the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.
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