Now that gravity has done its thing and the space dust has settled, the Think Inc. team would like to thank everybody who showed up and made An Evening with Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson without a sliver of a doubt our most successful tour to date. With the majority of Dr Tyson’s talks sold out and in some cases requiring an additional injection of last-minute tickets, we were both overjoyed and relieved that Australia is so rich in inter-generational Thinkers who value scientific literacy.

Dr Tyson came out swinging and delivered haymakers to a cosmic cargo of categories, ranging from the expected role of science in society, to the receding role of religion, to the automated doors on the ships of Star Trek, and of course, to the *ahem!* problem of Pluto; no matter what topical surface he landed on, audiences were inescapably sucked into Dr Tyson’s gravitational presence, much like into a black hole (though some minds were spaghettified yet came out in tact…more or less).

Cultivating and motivating a society that is not only scientifically literate, but one that is well-armed with a BS-filter to do away with bunk claims that damage human progress, the impact that Dr Tyson had on audiences and reviewers was astronomically astounding:

“[Dr Tyson] chooses to question everything in a way that only a true scientist can, and provided some great insights into our relationship with the universe which also points to our relationship with each other.”

 –  Julian Ramundi, theAUreview

“What’s…refreshing about Dr Tyson is his ability to discuss and present science to an audience, incorporating wit and delivering the information in a very down-to-earth manner, that even someone like myself (not scientifically inclined) is able to follow in its intricacy without ever feeling lost, or confused. This ability truly sets him apart from others in his field, and makes him popular not only among those who are already drawn to the sciences but appreciated by the laymen.”

    – Gordana Andjelic-Davila, Australian Stage

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Once again, the team at Think Inc. would like to send out an ever-expanding-cosmos-sized THANK YOU! to all who attended what was indeed a spacetime an odyssey of a tour! Though humanity may not yet have figured out how to create wormholes to alter the space-time continuum and bring us to wherever (and whenever) we want to be, what we at Think Inc. are working hard on is bringing these ‘wherever-whenever’s to Australia…just to make the wait for wormholes a little less strenuous.

Watch out, because we have another badass coming down under for An Evening with Sam Harris in January 2016.

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“We are all connected – to each other, biologically; to the Earth, chemically; to the rest of the universe, atomically.”

Watch out, we got a badass coming down under! Think Inc. – the folks who brought Dr. Michio Kaku and The ‘Amazing’ James Randi to Australia in 2014 – are thrilled to announce the 2015 return to Australia of astrophysicist, author, celebrity, wrestler, world-recognised badass and one of the very first Think Inc. event guests, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. After a behemoth teenage expression of interest in the universe which caught the attention of legendary astronomer Carl Sagan, young Neil deGrasse Tyson graduated Harvard University where he majored in physics, moving on to Columbia University where he earned Master of Philosophy and Doctorate of Philosophy degrees in astrophysics.

In the more public spheres, Tyson is renowned as a science communicator and host of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (the follow-up to Sagan’s own 1980 series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage), and is recognised widely for his views extending outside the realms of science, in his own words governed by two main philosophies: “…know more today about the world than I knew yesterday, and lessen the suffering of others.” The author of books such as The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist (2000), co-authored Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (2004), and Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (2006), Tyson serves as a reminder for the wonders of scientific discovery and the universal interest in, well, the universe. He strives to make science and rational thought accessible to audiences of all ages, genders, nationalities, and professions, with equal parts relevance, reverence, and humour.

Mark the month of August 2015 (or approximately fourteen billion plus 2015) in your Cosmic Calendars, as Dr. Tyson brings his ‘Ship of Imagination’ to Australian audiences, on a mission to progress critical thinking and the importance of science in our modern-day landscapes. Intellect: now available in baritone.