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Can Bill Nye – or any other science show – really save the world?

  • Written by Heather Akin, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
imageWill Bill Nye's new show find a wider audience than Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos' did?Vince Bucci/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images

Netflix’s new talk show, “Bill Nye Saves the World,” debuted the night before people around the world joined together to demonstrate and March for Science. Many have lauded the timing and...

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