On his podcast, Nate Butkus has talked radiation with a US government scientist, evolution with a Harvard researcher, and, most recently, genome-editing with MIT’s Kevin Esvelt. But ask him his favorite moment from the 28 episodes so far, and it has to be when he belched during a taping.
So it goes when the podcast host is 6 years old.
With help from his producer (his dad, Eric Butkus), Nate has parlayed what he says has been his passion for science since birth into a podcast downloaded about 4,000 times each episode and even an appearance on Ellen DeGeneres’s show.
Image: Nate Butkus, 6, hosts “The Show About Science,” with one producer, his dad. COURTESY THE SHOW ABOUT SCIENCE
