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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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
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—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)