Cool Science Radio

In this episode of Cool Science Radio Earl Foote who is the CEO, for NexusIT Consultants joins Lynn and John. Foote’s company is an IT Support and Computer Services company based in Park City UT. They provide rapid response IT services in Salt Lake City and across Northern Utah. We will be speaking with Earl about best in class tools and services that employers and employees can use to work, attend class and conference from home.

On this episode of Cool Science Radio Associate Editor of Health and Medicine at Scientific American Magazine Tanya Lewis talks COVID-19. She talks about the transmistion rate, the R-naught factor, what they are learning and updates about the disease happening right now.

Medical historian and journalist Mark Honigsbaum joins Cool Science Radio . He surveys the last century of scientific struggle against an enduring enemy: deadly contagious disease, from the Spanish flu through the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics. The last one hundred years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms. He joins to update on the latest pandemic, the Corona Virus. He's currently writing an epilogue to include CoVid-19 in his book, published last

Today we speak with Clay Karz and DJ Glusker of Roam Robotics . Let’s face it, skiing is hard work and the anaerobic nature of skiing means we have a finite number of runs we can take, and fewer if we are recovering from an injury or if we have the problem of too many birthdays. What if there were a robotic device designed to take some of the pressure or offload weight from your quads and knees to enable seasoned skiers to continue to do the sport they love and have longer ski days? Enter Roam

C ool Science Radio welcomes data scientist Alexander Boxer who talks about his new book A Scheme Of Heaven . Algorithms seem to control our daily lives and even determine what shows up in our social media feeds and what we ought to purchase. But in this conversation, we take a look at civilization's first system of algorithms, from Babylon and now to the present. It's the surprising history and scienc eof astrology. Boxer's book recontextualizes astrology as a vast, technological project.

Cool Science Radio welcomes guest Dr. Holly Gilbert who is the Director of the Heliophysics Science Division, Chief of the Solar Physics Laboratory and the NASA Deputy Project Scientist for the Solar Orbiter, a spacecraft that launched Sunday, February 9, and is on its way to the sun. It will study the electromagnetic characteristics of the solar wind, enabling them to tackle mysteries such as the 11-year cycle of solar activity, the generation of the Sun’s magnetic field and how solar wind

C ool Science Radio speaks with historian and author Amy Shira Teitel who has written Fighting For Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle For Female Spaceflight. This book is the mostly unknown tale of Jackie Cochran , and Jerrie Cobb, two accomplished aviatrixes, one generation apart, who each dreamed of being the first woman in space, but along the way battled their egos, their expectations, and ultimately the patriarchal society that stood between them and the stars.

Cool Science Radio welcomes guest Peter Diamandis , a space-entrepreneur-turned-innovation-pioneer and the Chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation , a non-profit organization that designs and manages public competitions intended to encourage technological development that could benefit humanity. Peter has co-written a book with Steven Kotler, a follow up to their NY Times bestselling books Abundance and Bold - The Future is Faster than You Think: How Converging Technologies are Transforming

Joining Cool Science Radio is Tanya Lewis, health and medicine editor at Scientific American . Lewis has followed the novel coronvirus story closely and written on it extensively. In December 2019 a cluster of patients was found in Wuhan, China with pneumonia from an unknown cause. While the majority of the cases are in China, the coronavirus has been found in countries all over the world, including the US, where there have been 14 cases reported. Over 3,000 people in China have died from the

Cool Science Radio welcomes Mike Leonard, the Chief Technology Officer at Motif FoodWorks in Boston. Motif makes ingredients for plant-based meat and dairy products. Could plant based meats and dairy products allow us to be kinder to our animals, kinder to out environment and kinder to our own health? Each year in the United States 39 million cattle and calves are slaughtered for meat. 9% of greenhouse gas comes from agriculture and 1/3 of that is methane from cow digestion. Also, it takes