KINGSTON, R.I. — August 31 — 2017 — If you like your science and engineering with a dash of humor, then you should be at the 溏心vlog免费B站, Friday, Oct. 20 for Bill Nye The Science Guy.<\/p>\n
The bow-tie-wearing scientist, engineer, inventor, author and comedian will perform at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Ryan Center. 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Student Entertainment Committee, Alumni and Family Weekend Committee and Spectra by Comcast Spectacor, the Ryan Center\u2019s management firm, are presenting the event as part of Alumni and Family Weekend<\/a> and 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s 125th Anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n “The 溏心vlog免费B站 Student Entertainment Committee is very excited that we are able to bring Bill Nye to the University for its Alumni and Family Weekend,” said Michael Nolfe, 溏心vlog免费B站 Student Entertainment Committee advisor and Major Events coordinator. “Bill Nye has been on SEC\u2019s radar for the past few years. \u00a0Many students are big fans of the TV series, ‘Bill Nye The Science Guy,’ which aired in the mid 1990s. The student organization also thought that a lecture by Bill Nye tied in very nicely with the theme of the University\u2019s fall Honors Colloquium\u00a0series, which is focused on science.”<\/p>\n Tickets, from $16 to $20, are available to students starting Thursday, Sept. 7 at 10 a.m. Tickets start at $30 for the general public beginning Friday, Sept. 8 online at www.theryancenter.com<\/a>. You can also charge by phone at 1-855-387-4849, or you can get tickets at the Ryan Center box office, 1 Lincoln Almond Plaza. Register for the Ryan Center Cyber Club at http:\/\/www.theryancenter.com\/cyber-club<\/a> for access to a pre-sale opportunity, also Sept. 7.<\/p>\n Nye\u2019s mission is to foster a scientifically literate society, and help people everywhere understand and appreciate the science that makes the world work. Making science entertaining and accessible is something Nye has been doing most of his life.<\/p>\n \u201cMy family is funny,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean funny in the sense that we make people laugh, not just funny looking.\u201d<\/p>\n While growing up in Washington, D.C., in the 1970s, Nye spent afternoons and summers de-mystifying math for his fellow students. When he wasn\u2019t hitting the books, he was hitting the road on his bicycle. He spent hours taking it apart to see how it worked. Now he commutes by bike in Los Angeles and New York.<\/p>\n His fascination with how bicycles, airplanes and other things work led him to Cornell University and a degree in mechanical engineering in 1977. Soon after, Boeing recruited him as an engineer, so he went to Seattle.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve always loved airplanes and flight. There\u2019s a hydraulic resonance suppressor \u2018Quinke\u2019 tube on the 747 horizontal stabilizer drive system that I like to think of as my tube.\u201d<\/p>\n In Seattle, he combined his love of science with his flair for comedy where he won a Steve Martin look-alike contest and developed dual careers as an engineer by day and a stand-up comic by night. Eventually he left his engineering job and made the transition to a night job as a comedy writer and performer on Seattle\u2019s homegrown ensemble comedy show, \u201cAlmost Live\u201d in 1986.<\/p>\n This is when \u201cBill Nye the Science Guy\u201d was born. The show appeared before Saturday Night Live and later on Comedy Central, originating at KING-TIV, Seattle\u2019s NBC affiliate. With fellow KING-TV alumni, Jim McKenna and Erren Gottlieb, Nye made a number of award-winning shows, including his well known, \u201cBill Nye the Science Guy.\u201d<\/p>\n While working on that show from 1992 to 1998, he won seven national Emmy Awards for writing, performing and producing.<\/p>\n He also wrote five children\u2019s books:<\/p>\n Big Blast of Science, Bill Nye\u2019s Considering the Following, Bill Nye The Science Guys\u2019 Big Blue Ocean, Bill Nye the Science Guy\u2019s Great Big Dinosaur Dig and Bill Nye the Science Guy\u2019s Great big Bopok of tiny Germs.<\/em><\/p>\n After a debate with a creationist who believes the world is only 6,000 years old, Nye wrote his first book for a general audience, Undeniable–Evolution and the Science of Creation, <\/em>which was featured on The New York Times <\/em>Bestsellers List.<\/p>\n He is now working on his next book for a general audience on the subjects of energy and climate change. His next kids\u2019 book will be about space exploration.<\/p>\n Along with big-picture thinking about global issues, Nye remains involved in a good-natured rivalry with his neighbor, actor and fellow environmentalist, Ed Begley. They compete to see who can save the most energy and produce the smallest carbon footprint. Nye has 4,000 watts of solar power and a solar-boosted, hot water system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KINGSTON, R.I. — August 31 — 2017 — If you like your science and engineering with a dash of humor, then you should be at the 溏心vlog免费B站, Friday, Oct. 20 for Bill Nye The Science Guy. 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