I found his AMAs to be the two most interesting things I've ever read on reddit, I think. It's as if the whole community collectively attempts to behave just so they don't fuck it up. The memes are kept to a minimum, etc.
For an incredibly candid interview done by out-of-character Stephen Colbert, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXh9RQCvxmg" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXh9RQCvxmg</a><p>It's extremely worth it and mentions a lot of the same points he makes in the two AMAs.
Reddit is really a horrible medium to do an AMA. Just trying to read through that thread is incredibly inefficient and annoying. I wish better alternatives like AnyAsq would catch on.
<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ngd5e/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/c38v8xs" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ngd5e/i_am_neil_degras...</a><p>Impact of finding Higgs at LHC
NDG: <i>To discover something you expect to be there does almost nothing to advance physics.</i><p>This is exactly what I have been saying: finding something that we know is there and likely to fill in the last missing piece does almost nothing to advance physics.
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3343661" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3343661</a>