Television
From 1982 through 1987 he hosted the Emmy Award PBS science program Newton's Apple, which originated at KTCA in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1991, he wrote and reported science and technology for CBS News' "CBS This Morning." Flatow has discussed the latest cutting edge science stories on a variety of programs, including the Cablevision program Maximum Science . He is also host of the four-part PBS series Big Ideas produced by WNET in New York. His numerous TV credits include science reporter Westinghouse, and cable's CNBC. He wrote, produced and hosted "Transistorized!", an hour-long documentary about the history of the transistor, which aired on PBS. He has talked science on many TV talk shows including Merv Griffin, Today, Charlie Rose, and Oprah.
Flatow is founder and president of the Science Friday Initiative (previously TalkingScience) a non-profit company dedicated to creating radio, TV, and Internet projects that make science "user friendly."
In 2009, Flatow had a cameo appearance as himself in The Vengeance Formulation in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. In the episode, Flatow interviews Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) on his research on magnetic monopoles.
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