You know whom I miss? I miss Ira Flatow. For those readers who are not NPR junkies, Ira is the host of Talk of the Nation's 'popular' Science Friday. Every Friday afternoon from 1 until 3 Central Ira discusses the latest in science news from around the world.
Ira is especially frustrating for board operators across the public radio system because he never pauses at the appropriate cutaway times. Three of four times during the show Ira is supposed to say something like "Your listening to Science Friday on NPR." This is a station opt-out which means your local station can break away from the program to bring you news updates, another program, or the ever popular fun-drive.
Ira's constant sluring of words makes it difficult to get a clean break form the show. It sounds like "Your listening to Science Friday on NPRrrrrrrrrrrrbut Mr Blestinick, please tell me about hot dog clon-Support for Science Friday on WOLD is provided by Jim's tree repair."
Also the show is the best thing that ever happened to poor old ToTN. They talk about the neatest stuff you've ever heard. But we in Minnesota only get the first hour of SciFri these days, and I am almost always working at 1PM.
Damn.
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7 comments:
Who the hell is not working at 1PM? Come on, be reasonable.
asshole
jk!
I had to overcome a similar obstacle with Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (who remembers to listen to the radio at 2 on Sundays?), but was able to do so thanks to the glory of podcasts. There's a link to download Science Fridays off the MPR Web site.
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Cupcake: Some people work from home. You know, drug delaers, and freelance writers and such.
Annonymous: WTF?
JFA: Hi there - I am a huge fan of the Wait Wait podcast. I am also prone to listening to This American Life on the internets. Thanks for the tip about SciFri.
Keep 'em coming people! I love it. It makes me feel loved...
hmm, Dave do indeed keep in mind that there are a couple of anonymous posters to your blog dispersed across the far reaches of the world.. I assure you that this anonymous blogger was not the one that called you that pretty word above.
Hi, Ira Flatow is cool. There was another string theory Science Friday yesterday, see motls.blogspot.com, in which Lee Smolin was attacking string theory and Brian Greene was explaining and defending it.
Flatow is a guy who actually knows what an excitement by science or technology is - already as a boy he had all these labs etc. - and how analytical reasoning works. So he was able to ask reasonable questions and not just accept any nonsense that Lee Smolin was trying to sell.
Other science journalists don't have any record of liking science. And that makes a difference.
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