The same scientist who (as a planet, that is) says it's "brilliant" that there's an .
But tells Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon that he doesn't think a laureate's main responsibility should be to visit schools and talk to kids about why science matters.
"You want the person with that national forum to be on The Daily Show ... or halftime of the Super Bowl," says Brown. "The goal would be to encourage the public to think about science and to understand science."
And he hopes a laureate would weigh in on issues such as climate change, to move the discussion out of the world of politics.
It sounds to us like he's thinking of someone like . Do other names come to mind?
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