Restoring trust in science

6 Minute English

语言学习

2022-06-30

6 分钟
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  • Sam: I'm Sam.

  • Rob: And I'm Rob.

  • Sam: Once in a while along comes a scientist

  • who captures the public imagination and communicates their passion

  • for science in an exciting and understandable way.

  • Rob: In this programme,

  • we'll be meeting one of America's best-known popular scientists.

  • Astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson.

  • He's a man with a gift for communicating and inspiring people

  • with his television shows and books on cosmology -

  • the study of the origin and nature of the universe.

  • Sam: In his day job he runs the Hayden Planetarium

  • in New York's American Museum of Natural History,

  • but Neil's real mission is to encourage scientific thinking among the American public.

  • Rob: We'll be hearing from the famous astronomer,

  • and learning some new vocabulary, soon.

  • But first I have a question for you, Sam.

  • Science is ever-changing with new discoveries updating our understanding all the time.

  • For centuries, the Earth was thought to be the centre of the Universe -

  • but who was the first astronomer to have the correct idea that,