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Celebrate 1/10/11 with four palindromic expressions of today’s date, via your favorite astrophysicist, @neiltyson
by Anu Yagi
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Recently on Twitter, I started following everyone’s favorite astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson), director of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium. All of Tyson’s tweets are enjoyably enlightening, but his RT this morning is too much fun not to pluck from the Twitterverse and share with the Blogosphere:
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“@neiltyson: For those bent on the Palindromatic. Today’s date four ways, via @SciencePundit : 1/10/11, 1/10/2011, I/X/XI, I/X/MMXI”
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What’s a palindrome, you ask? Wiki says it well, explaining that “a palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted).” [Emphasis added. CLICK HERE to learn more from Wiki.]
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See. I told you that was too much fun to leave lost in the Twitterverse’s timeline.
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But if you think that’s fun, you’ll love the rest of Tyson’s tweets. Some tout what intrigue is to come on his weekly, podcast-able radio show (@StarTalkRadio / startalkradio.net), or share blow-your-mind links like: “@neiltyson: Creepy & brilliant – mostly creepy: Colleague @CarolynPorco ‘s actual TED talk reenacted w/LEGO people: http://bit.ly/i3edWl,” (Legos notwithstanding, Porco’s TED talk is cool because it’s all about Saturn, and “stumbling upon the holy grail of modern day planetary exploration… with enormous cultural and scientific implications.”)
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So click “follow” on @neiltyson’s page — so that the button alights pale green like the universe itself — and sit back to enjoy the stream of smartness.
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P.S. Listen, I’m not trying to give the impression that I’m, like, so smart or anything — clearly I’m not. So no, “oh, you think you’re so marquis” comments or whatever, OK? Because while I’d love to be a pretentious ass and say otherwise, I learned about Mr. Tyson from The Colbert Report, like the rest of you.
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