personal reflections

Interview on Jack Mangan's Deadpan about Pluto, life in the universe, Galileo, and religion.

SETI Institute's Are We Alone interview about NOVA Origins and what it's like to run the Hayden Planetarium.

Interview on why and how Neil deGrasse Tyson became an astrophysicist and why he continues to marvel about the wonders of the universe.

Tavis Smiley interview about meeting Carl Sagan, the origins of the universe, and intelligent life.

A conversation about the origins of the universe, life on Earth and in the cosmos, and a few of the astrophysical challenges confronting scientists today.

If you were stranded on a desert island, what ten things do you want with you?

Reflections on the World Trade Center.

Follow-up correspondence to family and friends giving an update on the family's psychological state and the living conditions in Lower Manhattan.

First-hand account of the WTC attacks and subsequent evacuation from Lower Manhattan residence. A heavily forwarded e-mail that became the subject of an article in the Wall Street Journal a week later on the widespread use of the web to communicate the tragic news of the day.

Assorted camcorder frames and other stills of the World Trade Center, taken within blocks of my home in lower Manhattan, itself four blocks from Ground Zero. © Neil deGrasse Tyson