Cool Science Radio

Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson joins Cool Science Radio. His new book Letters From An Astrophysicist was just released. Tyson introduces us to a newly personal dimension of his quest to understand our place in the cosmos as he answers 101 letters from people around the world. Neil has attracted one of the world’s largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. The book chronicles his correspondence with people who have sought him out in search

Cool Science Radio welcomes Park City local Damien Patton, the CEO and founder of Banjo . Damien has been determined to solve one of the most common but difficult problems out there - making the world's disparate data purposeful - and doing so live. Over the past seven years, Banjo has continued to pioneer technology that reinvents what's possible in a truly connected world. Banjo is the world's first Live-Time intelligence platform that gives decision makers the ability to KNOW INFORMATION NOW,

Cool Science Radio speaks with Dr. Andrew Shapiro , the manager of technology formulation for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Shapiro is the manager of early-stage innovation for the Space Technology Office. These concepts typically are developed for NASA . We will talk with him about new technological concepts and what it's like to manage a lab where ideas become concepts, possible projects and even part of a mission for robotic and manned space exploration.

S cience writer and technology editor for the magazine Scientific American , Sophie Bushwick, joins the show to discuss the October issue of the magazine. The cover issue deals with new information acheived through mathematical models which expose terrifying flying monsters called Pterosaurs. She talks about quantum computers and the challenges to encryption of protected information as these quantum computers come onto the scene. Bushwick also discusses new findings that ultraprocessed food

Cool Science Radio welcomes Ian Billick, executive director of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory . At 9,300 feet in a picturesque canyon above Crested Butte, Colorado, in the former silver mining/ghost town of Gothic, s cientists from all over the globe come each year to do research at this mountain outpost also known as RMBL. Billick is a field biologist who is interested in the ecology and evolution of complex systems. He has a Phd in Biology from UCSD and he lives in Crested Butte.

Cool Science Radio welcomes guest David Schiller, who has written Guitar: The World’s Most Seductive Instrument . Beginning in a guitar store on Bleecker Street in New York City, Schiller, accompanied by a photo researcher, traveled far and wide to study and photograph hundreds of guitars, visiting shops, collectors’ offices, museums, festivals, factories, and artisan workshops around the country and all over the world. From pursuing great photo collections to tracking rare images in far-flung

Cool Science Radio welcomes guest Andrew Mack, the founder of OLO , a modern day cannabis company based in Richmond, California. Recreational marijuana isn't legal in the great state of Utah but we wanted to shine a light on OLO’s unique scientific approach to cannabis products. To go beyond simple strains, OLO has assembled a team of biochemists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and cannabis experts to apply their expertise to develop, analyze and extensively test new products.

Cool Science Radio speaks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Matt Richtel , who this time appears under his pseudonym, A.B. Jewell, which he uses to write technology fiction. His book is The Man Who Wouldn't Die , it's a Silicon Valley Mystery Novel. Having reported on science, technology and business for nearly two decades for the New York Times , A.B. Jewell knows the Silicon Valley world and the often wild world of mystery that exists within technology.

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 .

Cool Science Radio welcomes theoretical physicist at California Insitute of Technology, Sean Carroll , who says that understanding physics means understanding one of the most contentious theories of all time - the 'Many Worlds Theory.' Carroll is a New York Times bestselling author and suggests in his new book, Something Deeply Hidden , that there are multiple copies of you.... and everything else in our universe.