I am liking it so far, definite a different feel than Sagan but Tyson has always been great at showing his infectious passion and amazement about science, and that's a key thing to have as presenter.

It's pretty.

As someone who's done a lot of 'history of science' tourism in London, the third episode was great

As a result of something I saw on Twitter regarding a Salon article, I'd like to vent for a moment about evolution. I wish people would stop saying that evolution produces more and more complex organisms and culminates in consciousness.

Evolution has no directionality. Evolution produces a great deal more single celled organisms than anything else. It has only produced consciousness one time in about a million. Humans and other higher animals are basically just wind-swept piles of sand in a vast landscape of nearly flat land. We are piles of accidents.

That is all.