Did Anyone Catch that Last Episode of Cosmos?

If there was one thing that I could say I definitely love about this show, it's that Neil DeGrasse Tyson's explainers put the scientific understanding into historical perspective. He makes it abundantly clear that scientific advancement of knowledge is cumulative--that concepts don't appear out of a clear blue sky, but rather come from ideas developed previously. This past episode was no different--it introduced us to a scientist who calculated the age of the earth--but also took on the petroleum industry against leaded gas because of the information he had learned.

This was a great introduction to the ways in which industries can promote the ideas of scientists whose views are complicit with their own, and threaten to defund those whose (still nonetheless accurate) data might prove harmful to their profitability.

I genuinely think this should plant a seed about the same dynamic taking place with respects to climate change--but even if it doesn't, I kind of trust Tyson to get there, eventually. This has really been a compelling, and entertaining show about science. Genuinely well-done.