Suzanne Griffiths asked Neil deGrasse Tyson:

What's your opinion about online education? It became immensely popular during the Covid era, partly because it was a forced emergency measure, but what about now?

Neil deGrasse Tyson Live teachers in a classroom or lecture hall are not nearly as inspiring as they should be. This empirical fact tells me that in-person lectures are over-rated and could easily be replaced with guided, on-line educational tools. The success of the Kahn Academy, the zillions of views garnered by Ted Talks, the value of reading and learning from good books all argues in support of on-line education.

But it requires a dose of self-driven initiative which not everyone has. You can always tell yourself that you "have to" go to class. So maybe on-line learning is not for everyone.

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Could the earth technically be a flat plain but is bent through 5th dimensional space making us see it as a sphere? Similar to how interstellar suggests a wormhole would appear spherical in the three dimensions we can interpret?

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What's your opinion about online education? It became immensely popular during the Covid era, partly because it was a forced emergency measure, but what about now?

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Is it really you answering these questions Neil, or are we being entertained and impressed by a smarter-and-funnier-than-the-real-deal-Neil AI?

does the big bang imply an expanding /or accelerating universe? (contrasting ratios of matter to dark energy that might find balance)

Could the earth technically be a flat plain but is bent through 5th dimensional space making us see it as a sphere? Similar to how interstellar suggests a wormhole would appear spherical in the three dimensions we can interpret?

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