For nearly three decades, Ira Flatow has anchored the popular weekly talk-show Science Friday, which deals with issues of science and technology. He also is Science Friday‘s executive producer. The program now airs on Public Radio International and Serius XM Radio. Previously, the 70-year-old journalist and author hosted two television series on PBS: Newton’s Apple — which garnered an Emmy Award — and Big Ideas. Flatow’s latest published book is Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature.
Quotes: “There used to be 70 science sections in newspapers around the country. There are probably just a handful left. When newspaper get into trouble, what’s the first thing they cut? Science.” | “I want to emphasize that you don’t have to be a scientist to be an inventor… Everybody’s got some sort of creativity in them.”
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