{"id":120645,"date":"2021-03-17T20:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T03:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/provocative-new-neil-degrasse-tyson-book-highlights-little-known-cosmic-tidbits"},"modified":"2021-03-17T20:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T03:22:40","slug":"provocative-new-neil-degrasse-tyson-book-highlights-little-known-cosmic-tidbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/provocative-new-neil-degrasse-tyson-book-highlights-little-known-cosmic-tidbits","title":{"rendered":"Provocative New Neil DeGrasse Tyson Book Highlights Little-Known Cosmic Tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/provocative-new-neil-degrasse-tyson-book-highlights-little-known-cosmic-tidbits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tyson\u2019s latest book \u201cCosmic Queries\u201d covers the gamut from early Earth\u2019s pond scum to potential multiverses to out-of-the-box ideas about the potential that we live in a false vacuum cosmos.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>After the past year\u2019s pandemic pall, it\u2019s nice to be reminded that we remain inextricably connected to the cosmos beyond Earth\u2019s atmosphere. In the new book \u201cCosmic Queries: StarTalk\u2019s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We\u2019re Going,\u201d astrophysicist and StarTalk podcast host Neil DeGrasse Tyson, along with George Mason University physics professor James Trefil, clearly remind us of our cosmic legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson, Director of New York City\u2019s Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, is well known for his ability to provoke the public into thinking harder about our place in the cosmos. And \u201cCosmic Queries\u201d does just that. Tyson and Trefil succinctly lead the reader through almost every aspect of cosmic history while addressing age-old questions with new verve.<\/p>\n<p>Designed with a wealth of graphic and color images with pithy captions, the book is also peppered with amusing tweets from Tyson\u2019s own Twitter account over the last decade. The book and his tweets touch on some of StarTalk\u2019s recurring themes, such as Why is the universe the way it is? Are we alone? And how it all began and how it might all end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyson\u2019s latest book \u201cCosmic Queries\u201d covers the gamut from early Earth\u2019s pond scum to potential multiverses to out-of-the-box ideas about the potential that we live in a false vacuum cosmos. After the past year\u2019s pandemic pall, it\u2019s nice to be reminded that we remain inextricably connected to the cosmos beyond Earth\u2019s atmosphere. In the new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}