So for this quest I decided to try to diversify the subjects in which the people I was following were experts. I ended up deciding on Taylor Mali, and Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
The first of these, Taylor Mali, is a writer. More specifically he is a slam poet. He is one of the best known contemporary slam poets, mostly because of the circulation of his well known poem "What Teachers Make". I chose him as an expert because of his leading position in the area of poetry. He has won four National Poetry Slams and was in the final round two other times. He studied with the Royal Shakespeare Academy at Oxford and taught English, history, and math for nine years. He knows his way around a stage, around a poem, and around the English language.
The second, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, is an astrophysicist, author, and has appeared on PBS's NOVA, and NOVA scienceNOW. I first knew him as the guy with the show about the stars, and came to recognize him as he hosted shows about the origins of the universe and about why Pluto was not a planet. Most recently he has been recognized as the son of a bitch who got James Cameron to change the star field in Titanic for its re-release in 3D to be accurate for what Rose would have seen.
These two men are experts in fields that are almost complete opposites. Somehow, however, they seem to make sense together. Both are concerned with furthering knowledge and education of the general public, they just differ on their preferred audiences and their preferred means of distribution. This should be interesting, to say the least.
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