Don Herbert, Mr. Wizard of my childhood, has passed away. When I was about nine years old, my hometown television station replaced Herbert’s show with some humdrum public affairs program: I fired off a snarky note to the editor of the TV section of the Dayton Daily News, and got it published. (My first and last effort at grassroots activism, and of course it didn’t have any effect.) Here’s hoping that there’s a Van de Graaff generator wherever you are, Mr. Wizard.
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