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Bookmark or Share- Phil Plait: How Can Mistakes Lead To Scientific Advancement?NPR/TED Staff. 9-Minute Listen. Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode Setbacks. About Phil Plait's TED Talk. When it comes to scientific research, mistakes are not only part of—but also...
- Phil Plait - WikipediaPhilip Cary Plait (born September 30, 1964), [1] also known as The Bad Astronomer, is an American astronomer, skeptic, and popular science blogger. Plait has worked as part of the Hubble Space Telescope team, images and spectra of astronomical objects, as well as engaging in public outreach advocacy for NASA missions.
- Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Home PagePhil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Home Page. Welcome to the homepage for Bad Astronomy! As an astronomer, teacher, lecturer and all-around science junkie, I am exposed to all sorts of people and their ideas about what goes on in the sky around them.
- The ‘Bad Astronomer’ Takes You on a Tour of the CosmosIn the early 2000s, Phil Plait wrote his first book, Bad Astronomy, which debunked conspiracy theories and fallacies, like the idea that NASA faked the moon landings in the 1970s or that...
- Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids | TED TalkWhat's six miles wide and can end civilization in an instant? An asteroid -- and there are lots of them out there. With humor and great visuals, Phil Plait shows us all the ways asteroids can kill us (yipes), and what we must do to avoid them.
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