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With Lectures, Bill Nye Aims To Change World

Can Bill Nye Change The World?
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Associate Science Editor, The Huffington Post

Shree Bose, middle, has her picture taken with Bill Nye, 'The Science Guy' as President Obama delivers remarks at the White House Science Fair in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 7, 2012. Bose, a 17-year old senior at Fort Worth Country Day School in Fort Worth, Texas, right, took top honors at the 2011 Google Science Fair for her discovery of a way to improve ovarian cancer treatment for patients when they have built up a resistance to certain chemotherapy drugs. Her conclusions hold tremendous potential for the improvement of cancer chemotherapy treatment and for future research. (Mary F. Calvert/MCT via Getty Images)
Shree Bose, middle, has her picture taken with Bill Nye, 'The Science Guy' as President Obama delivers remarks at the White House Science Fair in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 7, 2012. Bose, a 17-year old senior at Fort Worth Country Day School in Fort Worth, Texas, right, took top honors at the 2011 Google Science Fair for her discovery of a way to improve ovarian cancer treatment for patients when they have built up a resistance to certain chemotherapy drugs. Her conclusions hold tremendous potential for the improvement of cancer chemotherapy treatment and for future research. (Mary F. Calvert/MCT via Getty Images)

As the car pulled into the parking lot of a Starbucks, William Sanford Nye unknotted his trademark bow tie and slipped it off. Roughly two minutes later, before his drink was ready, he was recognized anyway. Two awed young women approached to ask if he was really Bill Nye the Science Guy. Like more than a dozen other college students who would approach him over the next several hours, they asked if they could take a picture with him.

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