Alan Alda's Human Spark

Science Talk

Scientific American

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4.2 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2010

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Alan Alda, star of stage, screen and science, talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky about his new PBS science series The Human Spark as well as his strong interest in science and long association with Scientific American Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.8	posted on January 7, 2010.
0:38.7	I'm Steve Murski.
0:41.8	This question that keeps coming up, what makes us human?
0:44.3	What is it that distinguishes us from the other animals?
0:46.3	That's the familiar voice of Alan Alda.
0:50.4	He brings a new science series to PBS this week, The Human Spark.
0:55.0	For three episodes, he meets with scientists in different disciplines around the world to try to understand what's so special about you and me and all us naked apes.
1:00.5	On January 6th, Alda came by the Scientific American offices and sat down with me
1:04.7	and a small group of editors and writers from the magazine and website.
1:10.4	Everybody, Alan Alda's here.
1:12.5	Hello, everybody.
1:17.1	We'll get to the show in a second.
1:18.7	Yeah.
1:18.9	The human spark.
1:19.6	Let me be self-serving, self in terms of our institution here.
1:24.6	I read your book, the first one.
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