Talkin' Science and Science Fiction With Eureka's Jaime Paglia

The geniuses of Eureka are inspired by a pretty good source: the geniuses of Cambridge, Mass. Before his TV writing career took off, Jaime Paglia, co-creator of SyFy's number-one-rated show, had a part-time gig as a program director of a science and technology public radio show called Cambridge Forum. "It was this rare opportunity to be in Cambridge, Massachusetts where literally you have some of the greatest minds in science and technology," Paglia told me in an interview recently. "Tim Berners-Lee, who literally invented the Internet, and Rodney Brooks, head of MIT robotics lab, the guy who made Sojourner, and who invented the Roomba in his spare time. Those guys, they see the world differently. There's a unique way their brains work that allows them to be as creative as they are." These Cambridge geniuses eventually found their way into the show, if not as Nathan Stark or Douglas Fargo ...