Neil DeGrasse Tyson: ‘I think the things you might think up in a bar’

The astrophysicist has a unique perspective after a life pondering the universe – grateful to science’s risk-takers, but scathing about unthinking votersNeil DeGrasse Tyson, 58, is an American astrophysicist who is the director the of Hayden Planetarium in New York. A committed science communicator, he frequently appears on US television shows and has published 13 books, the latest of which is called Welcome to the Universe.This summer a rocky, potentially Earth-like planet called Pr