Ira Flatow
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25 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
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Were there different schools of thought in natural philosophy?
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When you get two scientists, you get three arguments.
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Speaking of which, as we're running out of time here, is there a way for you to sort of sum up the mood of the time and show how science or natural philosophy fit in to that mood?
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So, I mean, to sum up where we started with the Constitution, would you say then you really can't have legitimate science unless you have the idea of free thinking?
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And you can't have free thinking without having science to test out what you're thinking about.
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So the whole idea of experimentation fits right in.
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You're experimenting with a country.
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And you know that's the way you get to prove whether it works or not.
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Well, thank you for telling us how things work this evening, because this has just been a fascinating deep dive into our Constitution and science.
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you, Ira.
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Dr. Robert Allison, professor of history at Suffolk University, also chair of Revolution 250, and the president of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
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Thanks to everybody at WBUR and City Space for making this conversation possible.
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This podcast was produced by Charles Berquist.
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And if all the Franklin and lightning talks spark something in your mind, please rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts.
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I'm Ira Flato.
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Thank you for listening.
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Hi, Ira here, and you're listening to Science Friday.
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This week, researchers reported an advance in synthetic biology, creating an artificial cell out of chemicals and biomolecules that, at a basic level, can grow, eat, duplicate its own genetic code, and reproduce itself.
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All properties of living things.
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