For many people growing up, Bill Nye was a user friendly bridge into the amazing world of science. I had Mr Wizard, kids today (as well as me) have Neil deGrasse Tyson or Michio Kaku. People with profound gifts for making the complicated not only understandable, but riveting.
So I couldn’t be more excited about the bingeable science shows announcement. Netflix promises to preserve Nye’s “unfiltered style” while using interviews and experiments to educate viewers on everything from climate change to GMOs. In other words, he’s going to be doing exactly what he’s been doing for the past few years, but now we get to marathon it all on Netflix. Phil Plait (who blogs as The Bad Astronomer over at Slate) is on board as the show’s head science writer, so you can expect good things.