Bill Nye's College Circuit Tour Gets New York Times Attention

Bill Nye the Science Guy, who lives in Studio City, was followed to Iowa as part of a New York Times profile about his college lecture tour and his continued recognizability among students.

Journalist John Schwartz followed the career of the professor and his quest to change the world through science literacy.

Nye is 57, and the story talks about how college students know him everywhere.

The story showed how he is determined to educate:

He takes on those who would demand that the public schools teach alternative theories of evolution and the origins of the earth — most famously, in a video clip from the site BigThink.com that has been viewed some five million times. In it, he flatly tells adult viewers that “if you want to deny evolution and live in your world — in your world that’s completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe — that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it, because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.”

In any given week, you’re likely to see Mr. Nye, 57, somewhere on television, calmly countering the arguments made by people like Marc Morano, the former Republican Senate staff member whose industry-funded organization, climatedepot.com, disputes the increasingly well-understood connection between rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and warming. In an exchange several months ago on “Piers Morgan Tonight” on CNN, Mr. Morano denied that warming is occurring, and scoffed that Mr. Nye’s arguments were “the level of your daily horoscope.”

See also the video that the Science Times did on him: VIDEO: A Warrior for Science

Read the full story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/science/bill-nye-firebrand-for-science-is-a-big-man-on-campus.html...