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On this week's Tuesdays With Bill, Lillian has the whole summer ahead of her, and wants to know what kind of science-related activities she can do outside of the classroom.
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BILL NYE, THE SCIENCE GUY:
Bill Nye, scientist, engineer, comedian, author, and inventor, is a man with a mission: to help foster a scientifically literate society, to help people everywhere understand and appreciate the science that makes our world work. Making science entertaining and accessible is something Bill has been doing most of his life. In Seattle Nye began to combine his love of science with his flair for comedy, when he won the Steve Martin look-alike contest and developed dual careers as an engineer by day and a stand-up comic by night. Nye then quit his day engineering day job and made the transition to a night job as a comedy writer and performer on Seattle's home-grown ensemble comedy show “Almost Live." This is where “Bill Nye the Science Guy®" was born. The show appeared before Saturday Night Live and later on Comedy Central, originating at KING-TV, Seattle's NBC affiliate. While working on the Science Guy show, Nye won seven national Emmy Awards for writing, performing, and producing. The show won 18 Emmys in five years. In between creating the shows, he wrote five children's books about science, including his latest title, “Bill Nye's Great Big Book of Tiny Germs." Nye is the host of three currently-running television series. “The 100 Greatest Discoveries" airs on the Science Channel. “The Eyes of Nye" airs on PBS stations across the country. Bill's latest project is hosting a show on Planet Green called “Stuff Happens." It's about environmentally responsible choices that consumers can make as they go about their day and their shopping. Also, you'll see Nye in his good-natured rivalry with his neighbor Ed Begley. They compete to see who can save the most energy and produce the smallest carbon footprint. Nye has 4,000 watts of solar power and a solar-boosted hot water system. There's also the low water use garden and underground watering system. It's fun for him; he's an engineer with an energy conservation hobby. Nye is currently the Executive Director of The Planetary Society, the world's largest space interest organization.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Lillian: Hi Bill, I'm Lillian. Here's my question. I'm wondering what can I do with science outside of science class? Science is such a fun thing; I just want to know what more I can do with it. Thanks.
Bill Nye: Lillian, oh my goodness. Science is the most fun you can have. You're right, what can you do out of class? Well, you can fly model planes. You can get a magnifying glass and look at everything. Lillian, take a magnifying glass up to a tree leaf. It's amazing. It's amazing all the detail; all the stuff that goes on in a leaf that most of us never even notice or a blade of grass. Then the other thing I used to do for hours was watch ants. I don't know where you live but man I used to watch ants all day. They're absolutely fascinating. We don’t know what they're doing; they're in a hurry; they brush antenna; and they keep going. They've got stuff going on man. They're doing ant things. And the study of ants, by the way, has given humankind tremendous insight into humankind. This is to say the genes that we all share, that we're all so much alike, affects the way we behave toward each other and this behavior is very, in many ways, similar to the way ants behave. It's crazy. It's fascinating. What else? Let’s see. Get a balloon and see if you can make it fly. See if you can get it hot enough to fly. Get a hair dryer and plastic bag and something to hold the bottom open and see if you can make it fly. That's something you do outside, in the summer especially. Then catch rainwater and then look at the rainwater with your magnifying glass. It's amazing. It's amazing the stuff that goes on we just don't even notice. See if you can, Lillian — I'm looking at you in the camera — see if you can watch the color of your skin change over the summer. Even if you're constantly putting on sunscreen, if you're, like your parents are relentless spraying you down with sunscreen, see if the color of your skin, like the back of your hands is a good example, see if it doesn't change over the course of the summer and then watch it change back at the end of the summer.....
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