He always strikes me as having become burnt out on actually being a communicator, because he’s constantly having to cover and recover the same stuff over and over again, and the only times where he’s genuinely having a good time is instances when someone like Stephen Colbert can come out and hit him with an angle he wasn’t expecting or that could explain something he had a beef with.
Because it seems like he’s just flat exhausted with everyone else just yelling “suspension of disbelief” at him whenever he tries to talk about the actual science of what’s going on in media like it’s some sort of “The Power of Christ Compels You!” chant to make him shut up about something he’s passionate about.
Like sometimes it just looks like people are hating on the guy for engaging with media in a way they don’t like.
Gerudo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I give him all the props on keeping me engaged with nerdy science and space stuff after schooling. But damn does he come across as an asshat the last 10 years or so.
I much prefer the team on How the Universe Works to keep relatively up to date.
Does anyone have recommendations on bleeding edge science channels that respect my intelligence but can speak like I’m not a post grad astro physicist?
Tinidril@midwest.social 7 months ago
Here are some that I like on YT
PBS Space Time PBS Eons Fermilab Anton Petrov Fraser Cain Sabine Hossenfelder (good, but often goes against mainstream science with mixed results)
IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I can’t speak to Sabine’s physics content but her social science oriented content is awful:
The capitalism video: short response, long react
The trans video: short response, long react
The neurodivergence video: very long response
Norodix@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Pbs eons is awesome.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
He got really cocky and has a thick smog of arrogance now. I remember seeing his JRE interview years back and thinking the same thing. It was the first time I had listened to him speak in long form, and he just dominated the entire conversation in a way that left a bad taste in me mouth. That was right around the tipping point for JRE in general before the entire thing fell off.