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Welcome to the Scientific American podcast, Science Talk, posted on September 20th, 2013.

I'm Steve Merski.

On August 7th, Scientific American and McMillan Science and Education hosted a summit called Learning in the Digital Age at Google's New York City offices.

As part of the summit, Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Mariette de Christina

sat down with the host of NPR's immensely popular Science Friday radio program.

That's right, Ira Flato, to discuss the teachable moment in science and culture.

Now it is my truly distinct pleasure to ask a friend and also the host of Science Friday to come to the stage, Ira Flato.

I have to say, Ira, I've been a science journalist for more than 25 years, and probably interviewing you is one of the things that I find the most daunting so

far about my job.

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