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Science Friday Giggles

Cosmic Variance
By cjohnson
Oct 6, 2005 11:09 AMNov 5, 2019 8:03 AM

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So after listening to Ira Flatow interview Lisa Randall on Science Friday last week, I was a little annoyed. I was only listening with half an ear, to be honest, the other 3/4 of my ear capability being held in reserve. After all, I do like listening to my friends and colleagues talk about our field on the radio and television, but you don't really need to listen hard since I've heard everything there is to hear about how these concepts are explained.... I listen because I want to cheer them on when they do a good job; will them some suggested helpful words if they're struggling -caught off guard, etc, which happens in radio (remind me to tell you a story about that)- and generally be supportive of their efforts to tell the general public what we do, how we do it and why we do it. From what my 1/2 ear heard, it was pretty good. Lisa's a nice new fresh voice to hear in the media, and she's doing an excellent job. Both ears came on fully at one point when I suddenly realized that Ira was....openly flirting with Lisa! And it got a bit blushy and giggly. Unbelievable. I don't remember him flirting with Brian Greene. But, hey, I thought, in reasonable measure, why not? But then it went to another level! At some point the phrase:

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