Bestselling author David Epstein joins the show to discuss his new book, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. Epstein examined the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields—especially those that are complex and unpredictable—generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel.

Our first guest is Sergei Urban. He is not a celebrated scientist or a Nobel Prize winner or a PhD in physics or any of those things that typically describe many people we host on Cool Science Radio. He is a dad, a dad who succeeded in creating two children with a high amount of creativity. In doing so, his kids have always asked for more - more science, more exploration, more fun. Fast forward to today and Sergei is promoting his book, The Dad Lab , after having spent the last four years

New York Times bestselling author and tech writer Leander Kahney joins the show. His new book is TIM COOK: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level . Kahney writes the first-ever biography of Tim Cook and tells the inspiring story of how one man attempted to replace someone irreplaceable. Based on interviews with Cook’s colleagues, Kahney chronicles the success of post-Jobs Apple including how Cook led the company to its historic trillion-dollar valuation.

Matthew Stanley joins Cool Science Radio to discuss his new book, EINSTEIN’S WAR: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I . Einstein’s country was at war and he was separated from his closest confidants by barbed wire and U-boats, his unlikely partnership with astronomer A. S. Eddington proved to be the most important alliance of his career. Their joint effort (Einstein’s ideas and Eddington’s conviction in their truth) paved the way for Einstein to change the field

Our guest is space philosopher and author Frank White , who writes in his book The Cosma Hypothesis about the big space exploration questions like, have you ever pondered a philosophy of space exploration? If you go back to, for example the colonization of our country, what would we do differently? And can we apply those lessons to space? We are now at a time with more successful space exploration and discovery that suggests that someday, humanity will be migrating into the solar system. Will

John Urschel, an applied mathematician and former offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens shares his inspirational story of a life balanced between academics and athletics, logic and grit. He has co-written a book with his partner, Louisa Thomas, called Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football. Urschel is working on his Phd in Mathematics from MIT, and doing so meant that he left his life as a professional NFL football player - because he wanted to pursue his passion…. MATH!

The 2nd guest this morning is Dr Shaili Jain who is a PTSD specialist at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, a trauma scientist at the National Center for PTSD and a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University's School of Medicine. Her new book THE UNSPEAKABLE MIND: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Front Lines of PTSD Science went on sale earlier this week.

The 1st guest this morning is Don Brown who is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of LifeOmic. LifeOmic is a software company that leverages the cloud, machine learning and mobile devices to power precision health solutions for providers, researchers, healthcare IT, pharma and individuals. Their cloud-based software securely aggregates, stores and analyzes patient data to accelerate the development and delivery of precision health treatments.

Medical historian and journalist Mark Honigsbaum joins Lynn Ware Peek to survey 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. HIs new book is The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris.

Lynn Ware Peek is joined by "evolutionist" and evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson. Wilson is a Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University . It is widely understood that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution completely revolutionized the study of biology.Yet, according to Wilson, the Darwinian revolution won’t be truly complete until it is applied more broadly—to everything associated with the words “human,” “culture,” and “policy.” Wilson joins