In a world overflowing with opinions, clips, conspiracies, and AI-generated answers, how do you know what’s actually true? Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks down his personal checklist for navigating the modern information landscape—yellow flags, red flags, and why evidence-based thinking matters more than ever. From scientific claims and podcasts to clipped videos and industry commentary, Neil shows you how to separate signal from noise and think like a scientist in the digital age.
How do you tell what’s real? Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks down how to tell which sources are trustworthy and which yellow flags to look out for. In an age of so much information, how do you parse what’s real and what’s misinformation?
00:00 – What to Trust
00:45 – AI for Research
01:50 – The Influence of Industry
04:15 – Telling You How You Should Feel
5:34 – Content Lifted From Its Source
7:00 – Further Research
9:00 – Conspiracy Theories
10:21 – Is “Mainstream” a Bad Word?
11:18 – Indicting Demographics
13:15 – Laws of Physics, Inventions, & Aliens
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Links to all of the presentations
NOTE : the individual presentations will be available later on in week commencing 1st December.
They will be linked here when they become available
Salford’s oldest part has been consumed by its neighbour Manchester, its old town hall and cathedral sit forgotten along a major through road, and city council use offices miles and miles into the suburbs. This is a story about Salford Shopping Centre, formerly the Precinct, 50 years old this year, and how it became the makeshift centre of a very weird city.