Bill Nye the Science Guy has moved on. The Eyes of Nye has taken over!
The Eyes of Nye takes on hard-hitting adult topics like addiction, cloning, and climate change. The show airs on local public television stations (www.eyesofnye.org). But Nye’s more serious avocation hasn’t compromised his zany edge.
Oddly enough, I scanned the PBS listing on the Eyes site and couldn’t find one listing for Alabama. I wonder if this has anything to do with it?
Question: In the “Evolution of Sex” episode, you say the main function of sex is to keep germs and parasites at bay. What’s the deal with that?
Bill Nye: That’s the best theory going right now. If you were talking to the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, you’d have to run constantly to keep up, because the whole world moves whenever she takes a step. That’s what life is like. You have to keep running on the treadmill of evolution or you fall off. The germs are mutating like a son of a gun, but with sex you can derive these crazy new gene combos that lock them out. Beat that!
Beat that, indeed.
Alabama public television better get on the fucking ball. I want to watch the Eyes of Nye.
