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In pop culture, scientists have mostly suffered from the flimsiest of one-dimensional portrayals. Whether socially awkward shut-ins or evil geniuses bent on world conquest, the popular imagination has taken a rather dim and confused look at real people doing interesting work. And really, is there much to see behind the white coats, anyway?

Through his numerous TV appearances and books (including the recently released The Pluto Files), astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has shared his infectious enthusiasm for discovery with worldwide audiences. Tyson's show on WGBH, Nova scienceNOW, kicks off its fourth season on Tuesday night at 9:00, and we talked to him beforehand to get his thoughts on the state of science education and space exploration.

Our good friends at WGBH have told us that they are hosting a live webcast with Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of NOVA scienceNOW, tomorrow night at 6 pm. The event will be open for all middle and high school science teachers; to register, just head right over to NOVA's website. In addition to his work with WGBH, Tyson is well-known for his appearances on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. If you have some time after school tomorrow, get signed up and get your questions ready!

The MBTA is going to lay off 75 of its 6000 employees. Are any of the 75 the people who stand at Coolidge every morning distinctly not collecting any fares? Probably not. [Globe]

Save America's Treasures, a grant program dedicated to preserving America's cultural heritage, is awarding $72,120 to WGBH for the preservation of public radio broadcast of the August 28, 1963, March on Washington. WGBH has the only existing recordings of radio coverage of this historic event. The Save America's Treasures grant will help document, restore, and preserve these recordings for enjoyment and study by academics and the general public.

Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North explores the slave-trading background of the DeWolf family of Bristol, Rhode Island. Katrina Browne, who created the documentary, discovered while doing library research that her ancestors had been the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. The news affected her deeply and she contacted hundreds of distant DeWolf relatives to give them the news and try to start a dialogue on the subject. Only a few responded to her messages.

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