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Article: This inquiring mind wants to know: The life and lessons of Ira Flatow
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- Minnesota Monthly
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- October 1, 2000
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A LISTENING GUIDE AND INSIDE LOOK AT MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO
IF IRA FLATOW, HOST OF TALK OF THE NATION: Science Friday(R), could choose any invention to become a reality, he would pick a time machine. "I'd go back and talk to some of the great minds, like Al Einstein. Visit cultures of the past, like the Egyptians and Chinese, to see what they were really like. Why was Stonehenge built the way it was? How did all that water get here?" he reels. This is the kind of mind that won't stop, one that constantly questions the wonders of the world.
Flatow's interest in things scientific began in boyhood-he almost burned down his mother's bathroom trying to recreate a biology class experiment. "I ...