On May 7th, Robert Krulwich gave the commencement speech to Berkeley Journalism School’s Class of 2011. That’s Robert Krulwich, who hosts the singular radio show Radiolab, one of the most accomplished pieces of science broadcasting in any nation. Robert Krulwich, who won a Peabody Award for broadcast excellence a few months ago. Robert Krulwich, whose blog Krulwich Wonders should be on everyone’s reading list.

Robert emailed me a few days after the speech with the following:

“I wanted to let you know that after the meeting in North Carolina [Science Online 2011 - Ed], and after watching the little brigade of you and Carl and Brian and your sisteren and bretheren doing your up-from-the-streets form of journalism, I decided to turn you guys into a Important New Thing in The World. Over the weekend, I gave the commencement speech at Berkeley’s Journalism School and if you wade through the first two thirds, you become A Paradigm at the end. I don’t know if this is a gross over-Romanticization, but this is how it seems to me.”

I’ve always wanted to be a paradigm. I might get a T-shirt made.

Robert ...