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Ira Flatow, a veteran National Public Radio science correspondent and Emmy Award-winning television journalist, has covered stories in historic venues like the Kennedy Space Center, Three Mile Island, Antarctica and the South Pole.
And it all began during his boyhood when he burned down his mothers bathroom while trying to recreate a biology class experiment
Hell be bringing his experiences to campus Wednesday as a guest speaker in the McPherson Professorship lecture series.
Hes the host of NPRs Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, and Flatows lecture will be titled If it Breeds, It Leads: How the Media Bring Science to the Public.
He just hops around from physical to natural science and also public issues, like pesticides on tomatoes, said Douglas Luckie, assistant professor of physiology at Lyman Briggs School.
The speech will be the fifth and final of the McPherson Professorship lectures - a series that MSU President M.