I asked my North Korean friend how it was to live in North Korea.
He said he can’t complain.
Bill NyeBorn 27 Nov 1955.William Sanford Nye is an American engineer, populariser of science and writer who was greatly influenced by Carl Sagan, learning astronomy at Cornell University. Nye began his career with the Boeing Company, Seattle, designing bydraulic systems from the early to mid 1980s. He progressed into entertainment and nurturing the public interest in science. Nye gained experience in a local Seattle television show and created the Science Guy persona for local radio. After spartan life as a full-time stand-up comedian in 1986-91, he made a pilot program for a local PBS station in 1992. That attracted sponsors and evolved into a five-year national PBS series, Bill Nye the Science Guy. Since then he continues to appear in other TV science programs and as a guest expert on TV shows making science accessible to the public. He has written for periodicals and published several educational books.« |
