Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

Great book. A bit too much US based stats, and not much for the rest of the world, but nevertheless, NDT gets his point across very nicely indeed.

I first came to know about Neil deGrasse Tyson via the popular TV Show “The Big Bang Theory.”Thereafter I started learning more about him, and getting his perspectives on the universe through his podcast and instagram reels.This book accompanied with the Audible Audiobook can surely fill up your experience in learning deep about “Starry Messenger”If you have an open mind, go for it..!If you don’t have an open mind yet, go for it even faster..!

Very informative book. The language is also very easy to understand. No difficult maths, so the ideas presented are quite graspable for common people like me.

Haven't read it yet. Just reviewing the quality of dust cover (which is decent) but cover is pretty bland.

Author mentioned an in-depth understanding of our living in a different perspective which is very ideal and objective reality where most of them might disagree but if we think critically then we might feel it's correct.

It is by neil degreese tyson he an astrophysicist so i love it

The book is a good one time read, don't get me wrong. However there were multiple chapters/pages where it was a very "earthly" discussion about politics, racism etc in the US. I found myself just flipping through the pages as it just felt out of place, a personal rant by Dr Tyson, which I don't have a problem with, but I was promised "cosmic" perspectives and being a major astronomy nerd, I found certain sections to be irrelevant and unfulfilling.Additionally, the printing is abysmal in multiple places. Slanting text that are not aligned, a white patch in the center of the page that makes you assume what words would be in that section.

Must Read..

Nada complexo, nada muito exigente. Leitura tranquila, misturando ciência e filosofia.

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Amazing book. You don’t need a degree to understand it.

L’ho preso per mio figlio. Gli è piaciuto molto

Highly recommended! - In his new book, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson provides a cosmic perspective to life on the planet. It is an excellent presentation of the adoption of a global perspective of nature, which is at the core of the yoga teachings and Indian philosophy. A global perspective helps us to recognize that we are all interconnected and therefore, interdependent. The right perspective facilitates us to properly view the details of reality, at the same time as we see the totality … it is the ability to see simultaneously the leaves of a tree and the entire tree. The better the view of the tree, helps to see better the leaves. Modern science tells us about the benefits of using a microscope and a “macroscope” to properly perceive our concerns.The author (born in 1958) has been the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History in New York City since 1996. He attended Bronx High School of Science in NYC (source of eight Nobel Prizes), studied at Harvard, University of Texas, Columbia, and Princeton. He began his interest in astronomy at age nine when he visited the Planetarium. He has received 21 honorary doctorates, the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, and Asteroid 13123 Tyson was named in his honor.Tyson examines a large number of topics, including astrology, gender identification, safety and violence, race and ethnicity, religion, political orientation, eating habits, disabilities, our views on life and death, and many other controversial subjects. His views on all the them challenge our traditional stands and are easily digested by a special mixture of humor and sarcasm. The book has a comprehensive source of information, mainly available on the Internet.For many of his selected topics, he visualizes how aliens visiting the planet would see us. Those aliens, he says, have none of our biases, our preferences, or our preconceived notions. Probably, those aliens have noticed that the very concept of truth on Earth is fraught with conflicting ideologies and habits. In one of the most sarcastic passages, Tyson deals with vegans and meat eaters and says that aliens would be incensed by vegetarians for slaughtering their plant brethren and by their special interest in reproductive organs (flowers, seeds, nuts, berries); by eating then, humans disrupt the life cycle of the planet. And he concludes that the barbaric behavior includes eating the younger versions of plants and infanticidal practices like eating baby carrots, baby spinach, baby arugula, baby artichokes, baby squash, bean sprouts.Brilliantly, Tyson summarizes the enormous impact of space exploration on our view of the planet. In a short period of five years, just after Apollo 11 (the first walk on the Moon), in spite of the virulent Cold War, the Vietnam fighting, and numerous Campus unrests, the US took a significant number of unprecedented actions: “Comprehensive Clean Air Act” 1970), “First National Earth Day” (1970), “National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration” (NOOA- 1970), “Environmental Protection Agency” (1970), DDT banned (1972), “Clean Water Act” (1972), first unleaded gasoline emission standards (1973), and the “Endangered Species Act” (1973). During those five years, “Physicians Without Borders” was founded (1971), the first catalytic converted for cars was invented and adopted, and the “Whole Earth Catalog” became a hit publication (1968-1972). We began to see our planet with different eyes!