‘What Is a Flame?’ Winner Melts Jargon at Science Festival

Monday, June 4, 2012 - 15:30 in Psychology & Sociology

The contest grew out of a question — “What is a flame?” — that the actor Alan Alda asked his teacher when he was 11. The answer — “It’s oxidation” — left him wanting.

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