By Bill Nye | Published: November 13, 2009 – 2:59 pm

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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By Bill Nye | Published: November 12, 2009 – 10:32 am

Dear readers,

Welcome indeed to my new site. Here you’ll find all that you would want to know about my latest television projects like Stuff Happens and my latest web work, Solving for X. It’s about algebra. What could be more fun? The Science Guy® Show material is still here along with all manner of other musings, including my blog, Twitter, and Facebook postings.

There’s a media area, a place to find press information and where we can see each other next.

I’m excited to have things up and changing again. I hope you are as well.

Click On!

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By Bill Nye | Published: November 12, 2009 – 10:31 am

About fifteen years ago, I had the honor and pleasure of having lunch with Glenn Seaborg. Unlike many of us, he was awarded a Nobel Prize. He discovered, or created, or contrived the means to prepare the very first piece of Plutonium humans had ever seen. He was of the Nuclear Age, a time when it was imagined that nuclear power would render electricity too cheap to even bother charging customers for. Read More >

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By Bill Nye | Published: November 12, 2009 – 10:29 am

Among other things, I’m the vice president of a worldwide, medium-sized organization called The Planetary Society. We are launching a series of spacecraft that will be driven through space, not by rocket fuel, but by the pressure of sunlight.

It is surprising at first, at least for most everyone I’ve ever met, that light has momentum. Light has no mass, y’know. Yet it can ever-so-slightly push things. Read More >

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By Bill Nye | Published: November 10, 2009 – 11:41 am

I happen to live up the street from one Ed Begley Jr. Oh yes, he’s a big time Hollywood actor. I say Hollywood, even though he, like me, lives in the great bit less prestigious Studio City. And oh yes, he’s been a green-living guy for many years. Ah, but I’m right behind him.

Since the early 1990′s, Ed has had solar panels, photovoltaic thin sheets of specially prepared silicon that convert sunlight directly into electricity. Oh yes, Ed’s got a brand new integrated solar heating and solar drinkable hot water system. Oh yes, Ed’s got a garden from which he gets plenty of vegetables. He’s got an on-site composter, too. And oh yes, Ed’s got a drought tolerant, what we like to call “xeriscaped,” yard. In Greek, “xeri” is “dry.” But I too, have all (well almost all) of these things. Ha! Begley; take that! Read More >

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