Ira Flatow is on a mission to expand the role of science in what he calls a "science-challenged world".
He stopped in Wilmington earlier this month to talk with WHQR supporters and staff. He explores the need for more popular interest in science -- for kids
and adults. And he examines why a basic appreciation of it must transcend politics (when did ideology invade the scientific world?) and why it's critical to the future of the planet.
In this series of interview excerpts, Flatow talks with WHQR's Rachel Lewis Hilburn.