{"id":212,"date":"2022-11-24T17:49:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T17:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2022-11-24T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T17:49:35","slug":"2022-book-6-neil-degrasse-tyson-astrophysics-of-people-in-a-hurry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"2022 Book 6: Neil  deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics of People in a Hurry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Nothing too earth-shattering<\/em><\/strong> here. I blew through it in a couple days last spring simply because it had been sitting on my to-be-read shelf for way too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6_NDT_Astrophysics-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6_NDT_Astrophysics-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6_NDT_Astrophysics-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6_NDT_Astrophysics-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6_NDT_Astrophysics-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6_NDT_Astrophysics-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6_NDT_Astrophysics-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Astrophysics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Truth of the matter is<\/em><\/strong>, I didn&#8217;t learn much because I had recently read the way more in-depth Katie Mack book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/?p=139\">The End Of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)<\/a> but it was more enjoyable than I thought it would be. I was surprised by the quality of deGrasse Tyson&#8217;s writing, and his easy-going sense of humor belied his recent reputation as somewhat of a scold and curmudgeon of social media. I would certainly recommend this accessible book to anyone who still needed a basic understanding of cosmology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three Satellites for accessibility &#x1f6f0;&#x1f6f0;&#x1f6f0;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing too earth-shattering here. I blew through it in a couple days last spring simply because it had been sitting on my to-be-read shelf for way too long. Truth of the matter is, I didn&#8217;t learn much because I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/?p=212\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}