{"id":461,"date":"2012-03-08T22:49:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eod.brianstandley.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2013-05-31T14:03:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T14:03:39","slug":"neil-degrasse-tyson-sure-has-a-way-with-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/neil-degrasse-tyson-sure-has-a-way-with-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil DeGrasse Tyson sure has a way with words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edited together with some gorgeous footage from a variety of sources (ending with an actual Martian sunset!), the astrophysicist&#8217;s superbly eloquent answer to &#8220;What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the universe?&#8221; yields a feast for the eyes, the ears, and the intellect:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/38101676?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/38101676\">The Most Astounding Fact<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/schlick\">Max Schlickenmeyer<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2012\/03\/07\/neil_degrasse_tyson_s_most_astounding_fact_will_turn_your_universe_inside_out.html\">Slate<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll even forgive Neil DeGrasse Tyson for his newfangled (<a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/comprise\">18th century<\/a>) use of &#8220;comprise&#8221; as a synonym for &#8220;constitute&#8221; or &#8220;compose.&#8221;  (Clearly, we already have words that fill that role perfectly well.  There was no need to introduce ambiguity and bastardize &#8220;comprise&#8221; by appropriating it, too!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edited together with some gorgeous footage from a variety of sources (ending with an actual Martian sunset!), the astrophysicist&#8217;s superbly eloquent answer to &#8220;What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the universe?&#8221; yields a feast &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/neil-degrasse-tyson-sure-has-a-way-with-words\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}