Ira Flatow
speaker
1,345 appearances
25 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Ira Flatow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What made him such a great scientist?
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And all of this can be verified, right?
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This is not just mythology.
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And you said he had a paper trail.
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And that was that famous kite flying experiment.
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And you say the whole story of the kite, he wasn't the first to do that.
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It was already done in France.
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I'm shocked, shocked, so to speak.
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I'm sorry.
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So he becomes a celebrity in Europe, right?
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Oh, yeah.
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And Isaac Asimov wrote a book years ago called The Kite That Won the Revolution because it allowed the French, now he was a celebrity in France, and when America was looking for aid...
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And the rest is history.
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Now that we have deified Franklin and us.
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Let's talk about some of the big questions of the times.
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What were scientists, or were they called scientists back then?
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Wow, just like today.
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And what were Americans doing?
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There's a famous historian named Silvio Bandini, and he called early Americans...
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A country of tinkerers and experimenters.
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