Give It Up For Neil

out there in our world there are brilliant individuals whose minds are incredible, awesome & inspiring, bearing thoughts, ideas & theories, which many of us wouldn’t be able to fathom if the thinker her/himself sat down at our breakfast table & spoon fed it to us like we were good little Gerber babies. there are funny wo/men out there also, who with one quick quip or deliberate body gesture, facial contortion or humorous act which may up to this point have no definition at all, are able to tickle our funny bone, sending us into a fit of laughter, which may very well create pain in our gut or cause us to fall right out of our chairs. unfortunately it is the case that seldom do these two vital human qualities exist within the same being & when you come across someone who possesses both, your jaw might drop at the same time you begin to quake with an almost violent guffaw--- this writer does feel that Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson fits the bill. Dr. Neil can captivate an audience--- armed with a comforting smile, razor sharp wit & pure down to earth sagacity, in just over an hour (maybe less) he can take those who held absolutely no interest in Science whatsoever, and with an uncanny ability to weave the most wondrous & complicated descriptions of what goes on in the cosmos, with jokes & anecdotes in a communicative way that does not have an agenda, outside that of education, he is able to turn on whole crowds to a love of Science! and once you see him, you won’t be able to get enough--- you’ll watch all the youtube lectures he did, and you’ll read all his books & the whole time, you’ll be learning things which had they been brought you by someone else, you might have just been bored listening, or ignored outright. though many good intentioned smart wo/men will do their best to convey all their research & they’ll do so with all the compassion that they can muster, how unquestionably important it is to have someone like Neil bearing as much communicative talent as he does sheer intelligence, so that he might continue to illuminate the world, showing his own love for what he does & what has always interested him, so that he may pass it on, igniting further amazement in us all, so that so many break the chains of religious dogmas which have kept their eyes & their minds shut & closed for so long!