 About
Ira Flatow
(Source: http://iraflatow.com/IraFlatow/Bio.html)
Veteran National Public Radio (NPR) science correspondent
and award-winning TV journalist Ira Flatow is the host of
Talk Of The Nation: Science Friday®. He anchors the show each
Friday, bringing radio and Internet listeners world wide a
lively, informative discussion on science, technology, health,
space and the environment. Ira is also founder and president
of TalkingScience, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit company dedicated
to creating radio, TV and Internet projects that make science
“user friendly.”
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 was the proverbial kid
who spent hours in the basement experimenting with electronic
gizmos, and then entering them in high school science fairs,"
Flatow says.
Mixing his passion for science with a tendency toward being
"a bit of a ham," Flatow describes his work as the
challenge “to make science and technology a topic for discussion
around the dinner table.”
He has shared that enthusiasm with public radio listeners
for more than 35 years. As a reporter and then News Director
at WBFO-FM/Buffalo, New York, Flatow began reporting at the
station while studying for his engineering degree at State
University of New York in Buffalo. As NPR's science correspondent
from 1971 to 1986, Flatow found himself reporting from the
Kennedy Space Center, Three Mile Island, Antarctica and the
South Pole. In one memorable NPR report, Flatow took former
All Things Considered host Susan Stamberg into a closet to
crunch Wint-O-Green Lifesavers, proving they spark in the
dark.
His most recent book is entitled Present At The Future: From
Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations
On Science and Nature. (HarperCollins, 2008.)
On television, Flatow has discussed the latest cutting edge
science stories on a variety of programs, including the new
digital Cablevision program Maximum Science . He is also host
of the four-part PBS series Big Ideas produced by WNET in
New York. His numerous TV credits include six years as host
and writer for the Emmy-award-winning Newton's Apple on PBS,
science reporter for CBS This Morning, Westinghouse, and cable's
CNBC. He wrote, produced and hosted Transistorized!, an hour-long
documentary about the history of the transistor, which aired
on PBS. He has talked science on many TV talk shows including
Merv Griffin, Today, Charlie Rose, and Oprah. He is currently
exploring new and better ways of bringing science news to
radio, TV and the Internet.
On the Internet, Flatow has hosted numerous science related
Web Casts for Discovery Online and the American Museum of
Natural History in New York. His Science Friday Kids' Connection
web pages won the award for one of the top 500 web sites in
the country given out by Home PC Magazine. His Podcasts are
among the most listened to on the Internet, frequently in
the top-ten of all downloads on the iTunes web site.
His recent honors include: induction into the Connecticut
Academy of Science and Engineering (2008), National Science
Teachers Assoc. Faraday Science Communicator Award (2007),
the National Science Board Public Service Award (2005), World
Economic Forum Media Fellowshipo (2005), Elizabeth Wood Writing
(2002), AAAS Journalism award (2000), Brady Washburn Award
(2000), the Carl Sagan Award (1999).
Ira is member of the National Association of Science Writers
and AFTRA.
His hobbies include scuba diving, gardening (especially orchids),
tropical fish and electronic gadgets. He loves the theater.
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