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Bill Nye, host of Stuff Happens and scientist, engineer, comedian, author, and inventor, is a man with a mission, whose goal on Stuff Happens to help foster a scientifically literate society that is aware of the effect their stuff has on the environment.
Bill loves helping people everywhere understand and appreciate the science that makes our world work. In fact, making science entertaining and accessible is something Bill has been doing most of his life. "My family is funny," he says, "I mean funny in the sense that we make people laugh, not just funny looking." Bill discovered that he had a talent for tutoring while in high school, and he spent afternoons and summers de-mystifying math for his fellow students. When he wasn't hitting the books, Bill was hitting the road on his bicycle. He spent hours taking it apart to "see how it worked."
As an adult, he eventually quit his day engineering day job and made the transition to a mid-morning-to-late-at-night job as a comedy writer and performer on Seattle's home-grown ensemble comedy show "Almost Live." This is where "Bill Nye the Science Guy®" was born. The show appeared before Saturday Night Live and later on Comedy Central, originating at KING-TV, Seattle's NBC affiliate. The Science Guy show ran on weekends at first and then later on PBS five nights a week and in syndication on weekends. In some markets, you could see the Science Guy seven days a week.
While working on the Science Guy show, Bill won seven national Emmy Awards for writing, performing, and producing. The show won 28 Emmys in five years. In between creating the shows, he wrote five kids' books about science.
Besides Stuff Happens, Bill Nye also hosts "The 100 Greatest Discoveries" which airs on the Science Channel and "The Eyes of Nye" which airs on PBS stations across the country.
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