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The Colbert Report
Season 5 · Episode 32
Steven Johnson
0.0March 5, 2009
Steven Johnson talks about Joseph Priestley, the man who first realized that plants actually create the oxygen we breathe.
Episodes
- Episode 1John King
- Episode 2Matt Miller
- Episode 3Benicio Del Toro
- Episode 4Lawrence Lessig
- Episode 5Anthony Romero
- Episode 6Niall Ferguson
- Episode 7Alan Khazei
- Episode 8David Gregory, Shepard Fairey
- Episode 9Frank Rich
- Episode 10Jabari Asim
- Episode 11Elizabeth Alexander
- Episode 12Jon Meacham
- Episode 13Chris Mooney, Ed Young
- Episode 14Philippe Petit
- Episode 15Paul McCartney, Denis Dutton
- Episode 16John Podesta
- Episode 17Dan Zaccagnino
- Episode 18Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Episode 19Steve Martin
- Episode 20James Surowiecki, Jonah Lehrer
- Episode 21TV on the Radio
- Episode 22Robert Ballard
- Episode 23Eleanor Holmes Norton, Steven Pinker
- Episode 24David Ross, Ed Colbert, Adam Gopnik
- Episode 25Father James Martin, Helen Fisher
- Episode 26Cliff Sloan
- Episode 27John Fetterman
- Episode 28Kris Kristofferson
- Episode 29David Byrne
- Episode 30Mark Bittman
- Episode 31Carl Wilson
- Episode 32Steven Johnson
- Episode 33Lisa Hannigan
- Episode 34William Gerstenmaier, Dr. Jay Keasling
- Episode 35Howard Fineman
- Episode 36Simon Johnson, Peter Singer
- Episode 37Jonathan Chait, Neil Gaiman
- Episode 38David Grann
- Episode 39Juan Cole
- Episode 40John McCardell
- Episode 41Derrick Pitts
- Episode 42David Plotz
- Episode 43Dambisa Moyo
- Episode 44Biz Stone
- Episode 45Tom Brokaw, Rich Lowry
- Episode 46Queen Noor
- Episode 47Phil Bronstein
- Episode 48Bart Ehrman
- Episode 49Sunita L. Williams, Susie Orbach
- Episode 50Jim Lehrer
- Episode 51Kanishk Tharoor, Doug Kmiec
- Episode 52Ken Quinn, Sheriff Joe Arpaio
- Episode 53Coach Mike Kryzewski
- Episode 54Ira Glass
- Episode 55Elizabeth Bintliff
- Episode 56The Decemberists
- Episode 57David Gross
- Episode 58David Kessler
- Episode 59Jonathan Alter, Ethan Nadelman
- Episode 60J.J. Abrams
- Episode 61Cliff Sloan, Paul Rieckhoff
- Episode 62Laurie Garrett
- Episode 63Mitchell Joachim
- Episode 64Jeff Daniels
- Episode 65Ron Howard
- Episode 66Michael Pollan
- Episode 67Yusuf Islam
- Episode 68Meghan McCain
- Episode 69Walter Kirn
- Episode 70Seth Shostak
- Episode 71Green Day
- Episode 72Jeffrey Toobin, Sen. Byron Dorgan
- Episode 73Katty Kay
- Episode 74Eric Schlosser
- Episode 75Dag Soderberg, David Byrne
- Episode 76General Raymond Odierno
- Episode 77Specialist Tareq Salha, Sgt. Robin Balcom
- Episode 78Lieutenant General Charles Jacoby
- Episode 79Stephen broadcasts from Iraq, Command Sgt. Major Frank Grippe
- Episode 80Austan Goolsbee
- Episode 81Karim Sadjadpour, Jim Rogers
- Episode 82Joshua Micah Marshall
- Episode 83Paul Muldoon
- Episode 84Simon Schama
- Episode 85Howard Dean, David Kilcullen
- Episode 86Matthew Crawford
- Episode 87Jim Fouratt
- Episode 88Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- Episode 89Alexi Lalas, Kevin Mattson
- Episode 90Nicholas Kristof
- Episode 91Ed Viesturs
- Episode 92Paul Rieckhoff, Paul Krugman
- Episode 93Leymah Gbowee
- Episode 94Douglas Rushkoff
- Episode 95Edmund Andrews
- Episode 96Geoffrey Canada, Bob Park
- Episode 97Dr. Aaron Carroll
- Episode 98Matthew Waxman, Chris Anderson
- Episode 99Zev Chafets
- Episode 100Movits!
- Episode 101Arianna Huffington
- Episode 102Kevin Baker
- Episode 103Kathryn Bigelow
- Episode 104General Anthony Zinni
- Episode 105Kurt Andersen
- Episode 106Kris Kobach
- Episode 107Meryl Streep
- Episode 108Sen. Barbara Boxer
- Episode 109Jonathan Cohn
- Episode 110Mark Johnson
- Episode 111Mark Devlin
- Episode 112Bill McKibben
- Episode 113Robert Wright
- Episode 114Ang Lee
- Episode 115Chris Matthews
- Episode 116Cory Booker
- Episode 117Christiane Amanpour
- Episode 118Tony Danza
- Episode 119Frank Bruni
- Episode 120Tue, Sep 22, 2009
- Episode 121AJ Jacobs
- Episode 122Ken Burns
- Episode 123Sheryl WuDunn
- Episode 124Matt Latimer / Out Of The Closet
- Episode 125Wed, Sep 30, 2009
- Episode 126Francis Collins
- Episode 127Arne Duncan
- Episode 128The Mountain Goats
- Episode 129Alison Gopnik
- Episode 130Thu, Oct 8, 2009
- Episode 131Shashi Tharoor, Dr. Sanjay Gupta
- Episode 132David Javerbaum, Sylvia Earle
- Episode 133Amy Farrell, The RZA
- Episode 134Jerry Mitchell
- Episode 135Cornel West
- Episode 136Tue, Oct 27, 2009
- Episode 137Brian Cox
- Episode 138Bill Simmons
- Episode 139Nicholas Thompson
- Episode 140Andrew Sullivan
- Episode 141Harold Evans
- Episode 142Thu, Nov 5, 2009
- Episode 143Mon, Nov 9, 2009
- Episode 144Maria Shriver
- Episode 145Christopher Caldwell
- Episode 146Woody Harrelson
- Episode 147Mon, Nov 16, 2009
- Episode 148Malcolm Gladwell
- Episode 149Norah Jones
- Episode 150Thu, Nov 19, 2009
- Episode 151Dan Esty, Cevin Soling
- Episode 152Tue, Dec 1, 2009
- Episode 153Wed, Dec 2, 2009
- Episode 154Thu, Dec 3, 2009
- Episode 155Mon, Dec 7, 2009
- Episode 156Senator Bernie Sanders, Andy Schlafly
- Episode 157Wed, Dec 9, 2009
- Episode 158Thu, Dec 10, 2009
- Episode 159Snoop Dogg
- Episode 160Alicia Keys
- Episode 161Tom Brokaw