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Article: Flatow speaks, science buffs listen.(Ira Flatow)(Critical essay)
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- Science & Spirit
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nonotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature Ira Flatow Collins, 2007 368 pages. $24.95
That Brooklyn-Long Island accent. Those nonchalant questions. And the topics--biofuels, gene therapy, cosmic background radiation, the brain! Turning the radio dial, who would not recognize the presence of Ira Flatow, science reporter extraordinaire,
Flatow has been at this work for about thirty-five years, mostly as science correspondent for National Public Radio and now host and executive producer of his own show, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday. In fact, the ...