Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, the current director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, and an author dedicated to communicating scientific ideas to the public. Tyson used to host a science program, Nova Science Now, on PBS, and he continues to be a guest on The Daily Show, Jeopardy, and other programs. Tyson has also recently appeared as the host of the new version of the show Cosmos. In this proposal, which appeared in Natural History magazine in 2007, he considers what might happen if humans felt a little less significant.
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