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Episode 32 — Steven Johnson

Season 5 • The Colbert Report

Released: 2009-03-05 • News/Comedy

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Steven Johnson talks about Joseph Priestley, the man who first realized that plants actually create the oxygen we breathe.

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Episode 1
John King
2009-01-05

Episode 2
Matt Miller
2009-01-06

Episode 3
Benicio Del Toro
2009-01-07

Episode 4
Lawrence Lessig
2009-01-08

Episode 5
Anthony Romero
2009-01-12

Episode 6
Niall Ferguson
2009-01-13

Episode 7
Alan Khazei
2009-01-14

Episode 8
David Gregory, Shepard Fairey
2009-01-15

Episode 9
Frank Rich
2009-01-19

Episode 10
Jabari Asim
2009-01-20

Episode 11
Elizabeth Alexander
2009-01-21

Episode 12
Jon Meacham
2009-01-22

Episode 13
Chris Mooney, Ed Young
2009-01-26

Episode 14
Philippe Petit
2009-01-27

Episode 15
Paul McCartney, Denis Dutton
2009-01-28

Episode 16
John Podesta
2009-01-29

Episode 17
Dan Zaccagnino
2009-02-02

Episode 18
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
2009-02-03

Episode 19
Steve Martin
2009-02-04

Episode 20
James Surowiecki, Jonah Lehrer
2009-02-05

Episode 21
TV on the Radio
2009-02-09

Episode 22
Robert Ballard
2009-02-10

Episode 23
Eleanor Holmes Norton, Steven Pinker
2009-02-11

Episode 24
David Ross, Ed Colbert, Adam Gopnik
2009-02-12

Episode 25
Father James Martin, Helen Fisher
2009-02-23

Episode 26
Cliff Sloan
2009-02-24

Episode 27
John Fetterman
2009-02-25

Episode 28
Kris Kristofferson
2009-02-26

Episode 29
David Byrne
2009-03-02

Episode 30
Mark Bittman
2009-03-03

Episode 31
Carl Wilson
2009-03-04

Episode 32
Steven Johnson
2009-03-05

Episode 33
Lisa Hannigan
2009-03-09

Episode 34
William Gerstenmaier, Dr. Jay Keasling
2009-03-10

Episode 35
Howard Fineman
2009-03-11

Episode 36
Simon Johnson, Peter Singer
2009-03-12

Episode 37
Jonathan Chait, Neil Gaiman
2009-03-16

Episode 38
David Grann
2009-03-17

Episode 39
Juan Cole
2009-03-18

Episode 40
John McCardell
2009-03-19

Episode 41
Derrick Pitts
2009-03-30

Episode 42
David Plotz
2009-03-31

Episode 43
Dambisa Moyo
2009-04-01

Episode 44
Biz Stone
2009-04-02

Episode 45
Tom Brokaw, Rich Lowry
2009-04-06

Episode 46
Queen Noor
2009-04-07

Episode 47
Phil Bronstein
2009-04-08

Episode 48
Bart Ehrman
2009-04-09

Episode 49
Sunita L. Williams, Susie Orbach
2009-04-14

Episode 50
Jim Lehrer
2009-04-15

Episode 51
Kanishk Tharoor, Doug Kmiec
2009-04-16

Episode 52
Ken Quinn, Sheriff Joe Arpaio
2009-04-20

Episode 53
Coach Mike Kryzewski
2009-04-21

Episode 54
Ira Glass
2009-04-22

Episode 55
Elizabeth Bintliff
2009-04-23

Episode 56
The Decemberists
2009-04-27

Episode 57
David Gross
2009-04-28

Episode 58
David Kessler
2009-04-29

Episode 59
Jonathan Alter, Ethan Nadelman
2009-04-30

Episode 60
J.J. Abrams
2009-05-04

Episode 61
Cliff Sloan, Paul Rieckhoff
2009-05-05

Episode 62
Laurie Garrett
2009-05-06

Episode 63
Mitchell Joachim
2009-05-07

Episode 64
Jeff Daniels
2009-05-11

Episode 65
Ron Howard
2009-05-12

Episode 66
Michael Pollan
2009-05-13

Episode 67
Yusuf Islam
2009-05-14

Episode 68
Meghan McCain
2009-05-18

Episode 69
Walter Kirn
2009-05-19

Episode 70
Seth Shostak
2009-05-20

Episode 71
Green Day
2009-05-21

Episode 72
Jeffrey Toobin, Sen. Byron Dorgan
2009-06-01

Episode 73
Katty Kay
2009-06-02

Episode 74
Eric Schlosser
2009-06-03

Episode 75
Dag Soderberg, David Byrne
2009-06-04

Episode 76
General Raymond Odierno
2009-06-08

Episode 77
Specialist Tareq Salha, Sgt. Robin Balcom
2009-06-09

Episode 78
Lieutenant General Charles Jacoby
2009-06-10

Episode 79
Stephen broadcasts from Iraq, Command Sgt. Major Frank Grippe
2009-06-11

Episode 80
Austan Goolsbee
2009-06-15

Episode 81
Karim Sadjadpour, Jim Rogers
2009-06-16

Episode 82
Joshua Micah Marshall
2009-06-17

Episode 83
Paul Muldoon
2009-06-18

Episode 84
Simon Schama
2009-06-22

Episode 85
Howard Dean, David Kilcullen
2009-06-23

Episode 86
Matthew Crawford
2009-06-24

Episode 87
Jim Fouratt
2009-06-25

Episode 88
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
2009-06-29

Episode 89
Alexi Lalas, Kevin Mattson
2009-06-30

Episode 90
Nicholas Kristof
2009-07-01

Episode 91
Ed Viesturs
2009-07-02

Episode 92
Paul Rieckhoff, Paul Krugman
2009-07-13

Episode 93
Leymah Gbowee
2009-07-14

Episode 94
Douglas Rushkoff
2009-07-15

Episode 95
Edmund Andrews
2009-07-16

Episode 96
Geoffrey Canada, Bob Park
2009-07-20

Episode 97
Dr. Aaron Carroll
2009-07-21

Episode 98
Matthew Waxman, Chris Anderson
2009-07-22

Episode 99
Zev Chafets
2009-07-23

Episode 100
Movits!
2009-07-27

Episode 101
Arianna Huffington
2009-07-28

Episode 102
Kevin Baker
2009-07-29

Episode 103
Kathryn Bigelow
2009-07-30

Episode 104
General Anthony Zinni
2009-08-03

Episode 105
Kurt Andersen
2009-08-04

Episode 106
Kris Kobach
2009-08-05

Episode 107
Meryl Streep
2009-08-06

Episode 108
Sen. Barbara Boxer
2009-08-10

Episode 109
Jonathan Cohn
2009-08-11

Episode 110
Mark Johnson
2009-08-12

Episode 111
Mark Devlin
2009-08-13

Episode 112
Bill McKibben
2009-08-17

Episode 113
Robert Wright
2009-08-18

Episode 114
Ang Lee
2009-08-19

Episode 115
Chris Matthews
2009-08-20

Episode 116
Cory Booker
2009-09-14

Episode 117
Christiane Amanpour
2009-09-15

Episode 118
Tony Danza
2009-09-16

Episode 119
Frank Bruni
2009-09-17

Episode 120
Tue, Sep 22, 2009
2009-09-22

Episode 121
AJ Jacobs
2009-09-23

Episode 122
Ken Burns
2009-09-24

Episode 123
Sheryl WuDunn
2009-09-28

Episode 124
Matt Latimer / Out Of The Closet
2009-09-29

Episode 125
Wed, Sep 30, 2009
2009-09-30

Episode 126
Francis Collins
2009-10-01

Episode 127
Arne Duncan
2009-10-05

Episode 128
The Mountain Goats
2009-10-06

Episode 129
Alison Gopnik
2009-10-07

Episode 130
Thu, Oct 8, 2009
2009-10-08

Episode 131
Shashi Tharoor, Dr. Sanjay Gupta
2009-10-12

Episode 132
David Javerbaum, Sylvia Earle
2009-10-13

Episode 133
Amy Farrell, The RZA
2009-10-14

Episode 134
Jerry Mitchell
2009-10-15

Episode 135
Cornel West
2009-10-26

Episode 136
Tue, Oct 27, 2009
2009-10-27

Episode 137
Brian Cox
2009-10-28

Episode 138
Bill Simmons
2009-10-29

Episode 139
Nicholas Thompson
2009-11-02

Episode 140
Andrew Sullivan
2009-11-03

Episode 141
Harold Evans
2009-11-04

Episode 142
Thu, Nov 5, 2009
2009-11-05

Episode 143
Mon, Nov 9, 2009
2009-11-09

Episode 144
Maria Shriver
2009-11-10

Episode 145
Christopher Caldwell
2009-11-11

Episode 146
Woody Harrelson
2009-11-12

Episode 147
Mon, Nov 16, 2009
2009-11-16

Episode 148
Malcolm Gladwell
2009-11-17

Episode 149
Norah Jones
2009-11-18

Episode 150
Thu, Nov 19, 2009
2009-11-19

Episode 151
Dan Esty, Cevin Soling
2009-11-30

Episode 152
Tue, Dec 1, 2009
2009-12-01

Episode 153
Wed, Dec 2, 2009
2009-12-02

Episode 154
Thu, Dec 3, 2009
2009-12-03

Episode 155
Mon, Dec 7, 2009
2009-12-07

Episode 156
Senator Bernie Sanders, Andy Schlafly
2009-12-08

Episode 157
Wed, Dec 9, 2009
2009-12-09

Episode 158
Thu, Dec 10, 2009
2009-12-10

Episode 159
Snoop Dogg
2009-12-14

Episode 160
Alicia Keys
2009-12-15

Episode 161
Tom Brokaw
2009-12-16

Information

Creator	Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert
Episode air date	05.03.2009
Episode runtime	—
Episode rating	0.00
Genres	News / Comedy
TMDB series rating	6.9
IMDb series rating	8.4
Series status	Ended
Age rating	14+
Country	US

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Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert
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