Author Jeffrey Kluger, a longtime columnist and science editor for Time magazine, joins John and Lynn to discuss his new book, Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon. In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just 16 weeks, the United States would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. (Rebroadcast)

Alan Stern, the New Horizons Pluto Mission Leader, joins John and Lynn to explore the story behind his new book, Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto, co-written with David Grinspoon. Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this amazing mission; their decades-long commitment and persistence; the political fights within and outside of NASA; the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build and fly the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next

Lynn Ware Peek and guest co-host Chris Cherniak speak with journalist Zach Schonbrun about his new book, The Performance Cortex: How Neuroscience is redefining Athletic Genius. Whether it is timing a 95-mph fastball or reaching for a coffee mug, movement requires extraordinary computation that many take for granted--until now. The Performance Cortex ushers in a new way of thinking about the athletic gifts we strain to see in our cavernous arenas. It's not about the million-dollar arm anymore. It

John and Lynn speak with Eric Miller, President and CEO for Avi-on Labs here in Park City. Avi-on designs and builds a family of professional-grade Bluetooth® enabled lighting products. Since we last visited with Avi-on a year ago they have received patents for their proprietary software and a special private label agreement with a global lighting company that will distribute their products worldwide. Here's a link to the website http://avi-on.com

Writer Jamie Bartlett joins the show to discuss his new book, The People Vs Tech: How the Internet is Killing Democracy and How We Save It. He warns that technology in interrupting our democracy and unless we do something about is, we may risk losing democracy for good.

Cool Science Radio speaks with Dr. Glenn Ricart whose accomplishments include naming to the Internet Hall of Fame for his work on putting the "inter" in "internet." He's now the Founder and CTO of US Ignite, a non-profit that helps to accelerate new wired and wireless networking advances to create smart communities. He also speaks in Park City on Saturday, April 14, as part of the 2018 March for Science.

Chad Mann joins the program. Mann is the Founder and CEO of MannMade Innovations, a technology incubator for apps and development software. His company develops engineering, software, and business models for companies trying to bring a product to market; from drones to software to creative lighting solutions. MannMade Innovations is part of the growing base of technology in Utah.

This morning, Menno Schilthuizon talks about his new book, Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution , which explains how plants and animals are adapting to the seemingly hostile environments of asphalt and steel. Next up is Park City resident Chris Fischer, who hosted the Emmy-winning television series Offshore Adventures , a chronicle of a life at sea: fishing, free diving and conservation. Fischer’s company is a recognized world leader in generating critical scientific data

The first guest on Cool Science Radio is Andras Tilcsik who explores the complexity and failure of our modern systems - from social media to air travel - in a book called Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can do About It. Then, Geoff Atkinson of Huckabuy, a tech company based on Main Street in Park City, will give an update, and finally we talk with scientist, professor and mountaineer John All who talks about climate science at high altitudes in his book Icefall: Adventures at the Wild

On Cool Science Radio, Dave and John’s first guest is Dr. One Pagan who has written Strange Survivors...How organisms attack and defend in the game of life. In Strange Survivors , biologist One Pagan takes us on a tour of the improbable, the ingenious, and the just plain bizarre ways that creatures fight for life. Dave and John's second guest is Michael Horkachuck. Michael and his group at NASA are working towards certification of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon that will allow SpaceX to fly manned