Ira Flatow
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1,299 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Ira Flatow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
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Why is that?
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We talked now about the Library of Alexandria losing lots of stuff, but this actually happened at the Library of Congress, did it not?
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A fire there?
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Is there any chance for both of these cases that somewhere some of these lost things may be recovered?
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So did this loss the Library of Alexandria set us back in the human journey of knowledge?
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How really important was this?
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Let's go right into that.
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Tell us about that.
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the
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Sam, do we have any idea what it was
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And how much serendipity is involved in this?
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Because didn't they almost just throw that thing overboard and thought it was a piece of junk?
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Very, very cool.
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And did we know before this that ancient Greeks used computers?
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It was hand-cranked, right?
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Yeah, it
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a little
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But this was still at a time when we believed the galaxy, as we speak, was geocentric, that our solar system revolved around the Earth, right?
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You know, reading this book reminded me of an event that was unexplainable to me at the time.
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