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0_____0 on July 26, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area e...

Bill Nye was an aerospace mechanical engineer before he got into SciComm.

I think it's important that there be a path from tinkering into engineering, if the individual desires it, perhaps in addition to "just go to college."

drewbeck on July 26, 2025 [–]

Nye also was a comedian right out of college [0], and was interested in doing a science television show ("content" lol) from pretty early on.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nye#Comedy

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