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Ira Flatow on Science: Stardust Needs Volunteers!
January 12, 2006 Madeleine Brand talks with Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Talk of the Nation Science Friday, about the return to Earth of the Stardust space probe after a seven-year mission to capture microscopic particles of dust from a comet.
Predicting Rita's Storm Surge
September 23, 2005 As Hurricane Rita heads for the Gulf Coast, join Ira Flatow for special coverage of the storm. We'll look at how storm surges are predicted and how the expected surge might affect an already vulnerable coast.
Katrina & Beyond
New Orleans and the Gulf Region, In Flux
September 2, 2005 What will become of New Orleans? Fishing in the Gulf? Oil and gas? Baton Rouge? Caller questions are fielded by Ira Flatow and scientists from Louisiana State University.