Cool Science Radio

Cool Science Radio

By Lynn Ware Peek, Scott GreenbergScienceTechnologyPhysicsAstronomy
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Cool Science Radio episodes

  • Open Heart Club Tells Story Of Those Who Need Heart Surgery & Those Who Perform It
    Cool Science Radio welcomes author Gabriel Brownstein, the author of the new book, The Open Heart Club: The Story about Birth and Death and Cardiac Surgery . Born in 1966 with a congenital heart defect known as the tetralogy of Fallot, Gabriel Brownstein entered the world just as doctors were learning to operate on conditions like his. He received a life-saving surgery at five years old, and since then has ridden wave after wave of medical innovation, a series of interventions that have kept his
    28 min
  • Intel Labs: Next Generation Of AI Will Mimic Human Cognition
    Cool Science Radio welcomes Mike Davies, Director of Intel’s Neuromorphic Computing Lab. Neuromorphic computing emulates the neural structure and operation of the human brain. This type of artificial intelligence will be needed for applications where interpretation and stand alone adaptation is required.
    23 min
  • How To Be Human In The Age Of The Machine
    Cool Science Radio speaks with someone who will turn you on to math and algorithms like you never thought possible -- Hannah Fry . She’s a mathematician, an author, a presenter, podcaster, TV personality, and public speaker. Her TED Talk The Mathematics of Love , has over five million views. She discusses her book, Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of The Machine .
    25 min
  • The TetraSki: Using Technology To Enable Quadriplegics To Ski
    Cool Science Radio welcomes Dr. Jeffrey Rosenbluth, the Medical Director of the Spinal Cord Injury Acute Rehabilitation program at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center and founder of The Tetradapt Initiative which began over 10 years ago when Rosenbluth dreamed of a better and more aspirational way to deliver the latest technology for adaptive sports and recreation to people living with spinal cord injuries or disease. Tetradapt works in coordination with the University of Utah's best
    23 min
  • Local Aeronautical Engineer Designs, Builds, And Races Personal Jets
    Cool Science Radio welcomes Pete Zaccagnino who is an aeronautical engineer and runs High Performance Aircraft Racing in Park City. Pete has flown over 22,000 hours in over 260 aircraft types and flight tested over 670 aircraft. His latest endeavors include aviation filming and production for Discovery Channel and the Smithsonian Channel.
    30 min
  • Cool Science Radio: Conversation With President Of International Campaign To Abolish Nuclear Weapons
    Susi Snyder joins Cool Science Radio. Susi is the President of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons . Susi is an expert on nuclear weapons, with over two decades' experience working at the intersection between nuclear weapons and human rights. She is a 2016 Nuclear Free Future Award laureate. Previously, she served as the secretary general of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) at its Geneva secretariat. She is currently
    12 min
  • Advancing Geo Data With Data, Software, Analytics, and Apps
    Manfred Krischke , Co-Founder and CEO of Cloudeo joins Cool Science Radio . Cloudeo is an online portal for companies that create, interpret, and use geodata. With the vast amount of geodata available there are countless applications that interpret this data. Cloudeo brings them together in an easy, cost-efficient way, teaming up with world-leading content and software providers contributing to an innovative geo-infrastructure that combines data, software, analytics, and apps.
    11 min
  • Einstein On The Run: How Britain Saved The World's Greatest Scientist
    Cool Science Radio welcomes guest Andrew Robinson who has written more than twenty-five books on an unusual range of subjects within the realm of science and the history of science. They include seven biographies, some about what we are guessing is his favorite topic: the physicist Albert Einstein. His new book, Einstein On The Run is the first account of how Britain gave sanctuary to Einstein - initially by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by providing refuge from the Nazis.
    22 min
  • How Online Extremists, Propagandists And Internet Trolls Have Broken Our Informational Landscape
    Cool Science Radio welcomes New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz who spent the last three years going into the worlds - even sometimes the homes — of online extremists, propagandists, internet trolls, and white supremacists who have become experts at using social media to advance their agenda. He also explored the world of the sometimes naive and recklessly ambitious tech entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley who created these platforms that have allowed misinformation to alter the way we think, the
    25 min

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Cool Science Radio is a weekly, hour-long program that focuses on the latest developments and discoveries in the fields of science and technology. Co-hosts Lynn Ware Peek and Scott Greenberg decipher…

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