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Alan Alda asks scientists to explain: What’s time?

By Frank Eltman
Published December 11, 2012 8:01am ET
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Alan Alda asks scientists to explain: What’s time?
FILE- In this April 19, 2012, file photo, actor Alan Alda attends a screening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Alda, the host of of PBS's "Scientific American Frontiers," and a founder of the Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, is sponsoring an international contest for scientists, asking them to explain in terms a sixth-grader could understand: "What is time?" (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File) | Evan Agostini

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Professor Alan Alda has a homework assignment for scientists. Yes, that Alan Alda.

The actor known for portraying Capt. Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce on the TV show “MASH” and more recent guest shots on NBC’s “30 Rock” is also a visiting professor at New York’s Stony Brook University school of journalism and a founder of the school’s Center for Communicating Science.

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