Dec 1, 2012
The Star Spot is excited to announce a new development: video. Today’s episode of The Star Spot also features a special video edition to be posted on our recently launched YouTube channel, "TheStarSpotTV." There you can watch a video recording of our interview with today’s guest, Bob McDonald, as well as coverage of the 50 year anniversary celebration of the launch of Alouette 1, Canada’s first space satellite, the event at which Bob’s interview was conducted. We invite you to check out the video and subscribe to our new channel. Older episodes of our program will also be posted there in the near future.
Bob McDonald is Canada’s best known science journalist. A long
standing fixture on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and host
of CBC’s Quirks and Quarks which draws half a million listeners
each week, Bob Mcdonald is the author of the book Measuring the
earth with a stick: science as I've seen it, which was short listed
for the chadian science writers association book award. He is the
the recipient of a variety of awards for science communication,
including the 2005 McNeil Medal for the public awareness of science
from the royal society of canada and the 2001 michael smith award
for science promotion from NSERC. The university drop out who wound
up with 6 honorary doctoral degrees - and counting - sits down with
Justin Trottier to discuss how unique opportunities have shaped his
life, the value of story telling in selling science, and his
experiences on the CBC.