Cool Science Radio

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

Our guest is Michael Ruzek, financial planner by day and Powder Buoy by night. Michael predicts snow storms in the Wasatch Back two weeks in advance by watching NOAA Buoy 51101 off the coast of Kauai. Michael has figured out that when the buoy hits a certain swell height a winter’s storm will hit two weeks later 3,000 miles away in Park City. Michael joins John and Bruce to recap the 2018/2019 snowstorm season.

John Wells and guest co-host Bruce Kasanoff Are joined by Elizabeth Cobb who has written and produced : CyberWork and the American Dream, which began airing on PBS stations around the country April 11th. Are robots and artificial intelligence coming for our jobs? The fear that technology will replace humans resulted in the Ottoman Empire banning the printing press; The Pope imprisoned Galileo and Queen Elizabeth prohibited a weaving machine that would put knitters out of work. But when the

Our guest this morning is 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