Interviews with Ira Flatow

Interviews with Ira Flatow

Ira Flatow is on a mission to expand the role of science in what he calls a "science-challenged world".

He stopped in Wilmington earlier this month to talk with WHQR supporters and staff. He explores the need for more popular interest in science -- for kids and adults. And he examines why a basic appreciation of it must transcend politics (when did ideology invade the scientific world?) and why it's critical to the future of the planet.

In this series of interview excerpts, Flatow talks with WHQR's Rachel Lewis Hilburn.

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Ira Flatow: The cost of ignorance / Congress doesn't know science

Rachel Lewis Hilburn

RLH: So you mentioned that 400 parts per million milestone that we’ve reached. What can we do? Or is it just going to be over at some point? I’ve heard…
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Ira Flatow: Dirty little secrets and his vocal doppelganger

Rachel Lewis Hilburn

RLH: I’m embarrassed to ask this, but I have to… Has anyone ever…IF: Now you feel like me when I’m on the radio.RLH: Okay. [laughter] If this is what you…
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Ira Flatow: "We live in a science-challenged world."

Rachel Lewis Hilburn

In this interview excerpt, Science Friday Host Ira Flatow makes the case for why we live in a science-challenged world.IF: How do you present science to a…
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Climate change milestone coincides with shifting paradigm, says Ira Flatow

Rachel Lewis Hilburn

Global warming is not always accepted as a foregone scientific conclusion. It still sparks political debate in some circles. However just this month,…