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FYI the author of the CBC article is science reporter Bob MacDonald he's like the Canadian equivalent of Bill Nye the Science Guy. Bob has been around what seems like forever.

edit: he also hosts the radio program Quirks and Quarks. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks

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Bob’s such a great example of forging one’s own path and finding one’s passion.

He failed grade 9. He went to university but dropped out by second year. Traditional learning models just were not for him at the time. But he showed that communicating science was much more about the human element; much more about the communication. He might be more like Canada’s Carl Sagan.

I’m sure he’s great, but that CV sounds much more like Bill Nye (Boeing engineer turned comic turned science communicator) than Carl Sagan, who was an active scientist and researcher his entire career while also doing science communication. Sagan was precocious and started college early, but after that he seems to have had a relatively traditional scientific career path until he became famous.

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