What's your favor science popularist?
Comment who they are and what they are good at.
Currently, it's Sean Carol for me. He is good at explaining Quantum wave theory and entropy. Generally good at science generally, throws in a dab of philosophy. Good reading.
What does everyone else have?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Nobody quite matches Stephen Hawking for me. A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell are incredibly approachable without ever seeming condescending, and a great starting point for anyone who wants either an introduction to their concepts or help making science more approachable.
I think all scientists should look to his example--few others have combined brilliance and approachability like he did.
Drewesque
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Sep 8, 2018
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I like Janna Levin. Here is a video of her. She has done several appearances with Neil De deGrasse Tyson and she is kinda hot in addition to being super smart!
kensmile4u
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Sep 8, 2018
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She is one that I very much look up to.
She has done and said some remarcable things
i have a few but michio kaku is so cute and fanciful, i just love to hear him talk, even when i think he's a little flippy. he's smart flippy. i have the science channel on right now. i have to turn it off when it does shows that could be called "big noisy machines and men yelling" or "in search of crap we know isn't real but we want religionists to watch the science channel too" but a lot of its programming is really fascinating. anything cosmological is of particular interest.
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genessa
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Sep 8, 2018
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I read a good amount of peer reviewed journals so I don't often watch the popularists. As a kid I loved Bill Nye and Carl Sagan, still do. Neil Degrasse Tyson is very good. It is becoming a more and more important job as the US politics fights against logic and reason.
YouTube has several that are outstanding.
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ThisGuy
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Sep 8, 2018
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Nick Lane (Power, Sex, Suicide) is the best for integrating physical biochemistry and chemistry with evolutionary biology.
Sean B Carroll's Serengetti Rules is the best history of the scientific ideas that undergird the field of ecology. This is remarkable since Carroll is an evo-devo molecular biologist.
Hats off to Siddhartha Mukherjee for his inclusion of so many women scientists in his The Gene: an Intimate History. He's also such an eloquent writer!
And Carl Safina's (Beyond Words) deep appreciation for nature and animals can't be matched.
Gmak
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Sep 7, 2018
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Although, big shout out to the hot paleontologist from the University of Chicago, Paul Sereno...OMG, ladies? Amirite? [media.nationalgeographic.org]
seaspot_run
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Sep 7, 2018
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The Notorious NDeGT. I have SUCH a crush on him. Sigh.
seaspot_run
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Sep 7, 2018
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I have to go with either, Carl Sagan, or Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
TristanNuvo
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Sep 7, 2018
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donald trump mans a walking advert for dunning kruger 
but seriously brian cox physicist david eagleman neuroscientist temple grandin prof of animal science jane goodall primatoligist/anthropologist marie curie physicist and chemist plus 2 nobel prizes the list goes on
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Sep 7, 2018
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