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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda cover image

Aomawa Shields: When an Actor is Starstruck

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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Neil deGrasse Tyson's Advice for Acting Graduate School

After acting grad school I was doing very odd odd jobs to to pay the bills while I auditioned. At Caltech working for the Spitzer Space Telescope which is a telescope. When we found out that Wired Science was the one that won and got greenlit for more episodes I was elated. But then I got the call from my agent that they were going in a different direction with the hosts, so there really weren't enough there weren't enough tears to be shed.

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