This special episode of Clear and Vivid is brought to you by the Allen Alde Center for

communicating science at Stony Brook University in New York.

When scientists talk to the public, when they teach, when they collaborate with others

outside of their field, when they try to raise funds, or when they try to change public

policy, it's urgent that they communicate as well as they can.

Helping scientists around the world to be clear and vivid is the specialty of the Allen

Alde Center for communicating science.

I'm Allen Alde and this is Clear and Vivid, conversations about connecting and communicating.

A lot of what I do in my life, including this podcast, had its roots in TV shows.

For 11 years as the host of Scientific American Frontiers on PBS, I interviewed hundreds

of scientists.

But even before that, there was a show that began in 11 year run in 1972.

More than 35 years after the camera stopped rolling, Mashi is still shown on screens around

the world.

And it certainly still lives in the hearts of those who made it.

The idea that good communication depends on how we relate to the other person was something

I began to learn while I was acting on Mashi.

So we really had to do an episode of Clear and Vivid where I could get together with Loretta

Switt and Mike Farrell, Gary Burgoff and Jamie Far, and talk about how we learned to

relate the way we did.

We took some doing because we're spread out around the country now.

We connected through phone and internet.

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