Cool Science Radio welcomes Gemma Tarlach, Senior Editor of Discover Magazine whose September/October cover story is titled: The Science of Gun Violence. For every death due to firearms, the U.S. spends about $63 on firearm research. In contrast, research spending on motor vehicle deaths is about $1,000 per fatality. Since publicly funding the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration traffic accidents are down dramatically and yet there has been almost no publicly funded research on

Cool Science Radio speaks with Park City resident Chris Fischer, founder and expedition leader for OCEARCH. Fischer’s company is a recognized world leader in generating critical scientific data related to tracking and studying great white sharks. OCEARCH has returned to Nantucket with its team of collaborating scientists for their 35th expedition. Chris joins us from the OCEARCH research vessel off the coast of Nantucket.

Cool Science Radio welcomes science writer and Technology Editor for Scientific American , Sophie Bushwick . We speak with her about her recent article, "Anonymous" Data Won't Protect Your Identity. A new study demonstrates it is surprisingly easy to ID an individual within a supposedly incognito data set. Big data affects everyone who uses a credit card, visits a doctor who keeps electronic medical records, or touches social media. Your data is out there—and even if it’s not directly connected

Cool Science Radio is joined by autonomous car expert and writer Jason Torchinsky to discuss his new book, Robot, Take The Wheel: The Road To Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving , in which he explores the state of the automotive industry. Through wit and wisdom, he explains why autonomous cars are being made and what their future holds. It is a fun, colorful, and informed examination of how we might get around in the future, and a briefing on the fascinating history of human

Cool Science Radio welcomes Scott Kupor, the Managing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Scott has just written Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. Whether you're trying to get a new company off the ground or scale an existing business to the next level, you need to understand how VCs think. In Secrets of Sand Hill Road, Kupor explains exactly how VCs decide where and how much to invest, and how entrepreneurs can get the best possible deal and make the most of their

Cool Science Radio speaks with Gina Bria, who has co-written Quench: Beat Fatigue, Drop WEight, and Heal Your Body Through the New Science Of Optimum Hydration. 8 Glasses A Day is Not the Way . It turns out all those gallons of water gulped may just be hydrating your bladder, and not your cells. (Rebroadcast)

Cool Science Radio welcomes investigative journalist and Fortune magazine contributor Katherine Eban . Last time you filled a prescription, did you pay attention to whether the prescription you received was a generic drug? You likely hoped so, because generics are always cheaper. In fact, the widespread use of generic drugs has been hailed as one of the most important public health developments of the twentieth century. But who is manufacturing these generics, under what conditions and against

Cool Science Radio welcomes Forbes publisher and self-proclaimed late bloomer Rich Karlgaard who has written: LATE BLOOMERS: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement . Karlgaard traces the development of our misguided assumption that early success is the best or only success. He then draws on several years of research and interviews with neuroscientists, psychologists, and countless people at different stages in their careers to illustrate why late blooming is in fact the

Cool Science Radio speaks with Jeffrey Rosenbluth , a spinal cord specialist at the University of Utah's Rehabilitation Center. He is the founder of Tetradapt , which creates biotech innovations so those with complex physical disabilities, namely quadriplegics, can participate in skiing and watersports. The program's technology features the TetraSki and the TetraCraft.

Cool Science Radio welcomes professor of history at the University of Washington, Margaret O’Mara, to discuss her book, The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America . She explores in her book how,, out of a small patch of land in Northern California, high tech re-created America.