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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Is that what was going on in the States?
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I was going to ask about, you talk natural philosophers.
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Does that mean that these amateurs were basically going into the woods and looking at nature and talking about it?
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You know, I mentioned before about how the founding fathers...
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decided to put science in the Constitution and way up there at the top.
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And one of those people was Thomas Jefferson, right?
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And if you go to Monticello and look at Jefferson's house, you can see all the stuff.
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He was really prolific as a tinkerer, wasn't he?
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Yeah.
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We need to take a quick break, and we'll be back with more on history, science, and early America.
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Stay with us.
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We think of science as coming up with a question or an idea and then going out to collect data, right?
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Did these scientists, these early natural philosophers, also collect data?
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We don't hear very much about Winthrop.
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We don't.
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But did he conduct a scientific expedition to observe the transit of Venus, right?
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I'm writing that down.
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He brought that himself.
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I hope it collapsed into something smaller.
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Yeah, so you have guys who are thinking about earthquakes.
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