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At NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Manhattan, they specialize in planetary climates — especially Earth's. The White House decided not to renew their building lease — where they’ve been for 64 years. NASA’s total funding is 0.3% of the Federal Budget. Just saying.

Not that anybody asked, but my wife, growing up in Alaska, was on her school’s rifle team, and a student member of the NRA. Though she hadn’t fired a gun in 47 years, she didn’t lose her touch recently at a Las Vegas shooting range. [ CZ Shadow 2 “Black & Blue” at 21 ft ]

Been thinking a lot lately about the morals of Jesus of Nazareth. Wondering what his rifle of choice would be if he moved to America. An AR-15 or an AK-47?

Don’t actually own a NASA Mars prototype ATV, but if I did, that's where I would park it on Broadway. And that’s how I would lean on it.

Happy Mother’s Day to all Moms out there. And Happy Mother‘s Day to all those who care for others as though you are their Mother.

If curious — from the @StarTalk Archives. A 2020 Mother’s day conversation with — my Mother (1928 - 2023) youtube.com/watch?v=T3KkTI…

When Students cheat on Exams — using AI or by any other means — they do so because School Systems value Grades more than Students value Learning.

John Mulaney on @Netflix “There’s a Horse in the Hospital” My sister, who owns horses, peed her pants when she saw this. [Video: 4 minutes] youtube.com/watch?v=JhkZMx…

If Rational Arguments no longer work in US governance, it’s evidence of a deeper problem in our educational system, which favors what to know over how to think — how to critically analyze, process, & verify information. Seems like a bad time to cut funding for Public Education.

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

Dear Republicans, Cutting science budgets has not historically been a Republican thing. For example, Lincoln created the National Academy of Sciences. Eisenhower's term increased the science budget 366%. Gerald Ford +15%; George H W Bush +30%; George W Bush +54%. Just sayin’.

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

Not that anyone asked, but during my tenure on the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board, under part of Obama-2 and all of Trump-1, we visited Military Bases domestically & abroad. At no time did any member of the Armed Forces I met say to me: “America needs less science funding.”

If you're unfamiliar with the role of science in America’s national defense, or the history of science innovation in the defense of sovereign nations, I invite you to start with, Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics & the Military. neildegrassetyson.com/books/2018-09-…

When a Government is scientifically illiterate, but doesn’t know it, then its actions (or inactions) can be a recipe for the dismantling of an informed and enlightened Democracy. #ScienceMatters

Since 1975 (the past fifty years) global vaccination efforts have saved the lives of 154 million people, especially reducing infant deaths — by 40%. who.int/news/item/24-0… That’s greater than the total population of France + Germany. #ScienceMatters

Respect to all graduates this spring. Reminder that a Commencement is a beginning not an end. If your school did right by you, a lifetime of continued learning awaits, lest you ossify in place, forever clutching to how things were on graduation day, while the World passes you by.