Ira Flatow: The Sound of the Falls
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2016
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
As a young science reporter at NPR, Science Friday's Ira Flatow accepts a challenge to record what it sounds like to go over Niagara Falls. Award winning science correspondent and TV journalist Ira Flatow is the host of Science Friday, heard weekly on PRI, Public Radio International, and online. He anchors the show each Friday, bringing radio and Internet listeners worldwide a lively, informative discussion on science, technology, health, space, and the environment. Ira is also founder and president of the Science Friday Initiative, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit company dedicated to creating radio, TV, and Internet projects that make science “user-friendly.”
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.4 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:33.2 | I felt... |
| 0:33.9 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.2 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.4 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:46.0 | Hi, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly. |
| 0:51.6 | And welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. This week's story is from Ira Flato. It was recorded in July |
| 0:59.2 | 2016 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 1:08.3 | In this business, as a science reporter, you are expected they think your audience thinks that you're a |
| 1:15.1 | scientist i'm not a scientist i mean i have i was studying engineering in college and i went to |
| 1:23.5 | start work at the radio station in buffalo where I was working at WBFO. |
| 1:28.3 | And I wanted to go turn the dials and things. |
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