We spend the first year teaching children to walk and talk and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

Sage advice that hits close to my heart as I am going to be a dad at the beginning of August.

While this awesome spoof video has little to do with religion, I think we can all appreciate the value of educating the public and not simply providing mindless entertainment.

WHY DID WE MAKE THIS?
To be blunt: Science, technology, and education are important to us. But we live in a world where the little news we hear of schools, research, and the arts is when they’re laying their heads on the chopping block. We live in a world where celebrity and “reality” entertainment is winning the war for our attention. Though this may just seem like it’s playing off a funny trope, we do need superheroes in our world. Super men, women (and puppets), like those actualized by PBS, who inspire young generations to be scientists, teachers, and artists. But those heroes will not appear unless we create them.

I’m hoping that this is simply the work of an epic troll as the alternative is highly disturbing…

Neil deGrasse Tyson just keeps dropping these supremely quotable statements:

A far cry from reality, but as Sigmund Freud said, “The voice of reason is soft, But it is very persistent.”