The latest episode of Point of Inquiry features an interview with Bill
Nye, one of America's leading popularizers of the scientific outlook.
As a scientist, engineer, comedian, author, and inventor, he hosted
Bill Nye The Science Guy, a show that earned 28 Emmys during it's six
year run. He is the author of a number of children's books about
science and regularly lectures at Cornell University as part of the
Frank H.T. Rhodes Visiting Professor****p. He is also a Fellow of
CSICOP, the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the
Paranormal. His acclaimed new show The Eyes of Nye currently airs on
PBS stations across the United States.
In this discussion with DJ Grothe, Bill Nye talks about the im****tance
of science literacy, and how science best equips us to face the
pressing challenges that threaten our future.
Also in this episode, Point of Inquiry contributer Lauren Becker asks
Have You Been Saved? (this Earth Day).
You can listen online at http://www.pointofinquiry.org
or subscribe
through iTunes.
Point of Inquiry is the Center for Inquiry's radio show and podcast,
drawing on CFI's relation****p with the leading minds of the day
including Nobel Prize-winning scientists, public intellectuals, social
critics and thinkers, and renowned entertainers. Each episode combines
incisive interviews, features, and commentary focusing on CFI's three
research areas: pseudoscience and the paranormal, alternative medicine,
and religion and secularism.
Past episodes include interviews with Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett,
Chris Mooney, Eugiene Scott, Max Maven, Ibn Warraq, Susan Jacoby,
Andrew Skolnick, Wallace Sampson, Joe Nickell, Paul Kurtz, Jamy Ian
Swiss, Nobel Laureate Herbert Hauptman, and others.
Website: http://www.pointofinquiry.org
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