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Lynn Ware Peek speaks with author Hamish McKenzie, a journalist and former Tesla employee, about his new book, Insane Mode: How Elon Musk’s Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil. The title of the book, Insane Mode, refers to a dashboard button on an early model of Tesla’s Model S that accelerates the care from 0 to 60 mph in under four seconds, faster than a Ferrari. “Insane mode” could also sum up Musk’s unconventional leadership strategy.

Scott Thorogood, Chairman and CEO of Nano Vision joins Cool Science Radio. The mission of Nano Vision is to restore sight to blind patients afflicted with degenerative retinal disorders for which there currently is no cure. Nano Vision will achieve this through its unique, surgically implantable nanotechnology device which begins human trials soon.

Today's Thanksgiving Cool Science Radio show features a few interviews that you might have missed. John Wells is in Boston for Thanksgiving and Lynn is in Seattle. So they decided to put together a best of Cool Science Radio. First up, Science writer David Quammen who has written The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. Quammen's book untangles the theory that has long been unheralded about our understanding of heredity. This conversation originally aired on September 27, 2018.Our 2nd

Michael Wall joins the program. Wall is a senior writer for Space.com. He has just written OUT THERE...A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter and Human Space Travel (for the cosmically curious) . Wall explores the myriad of questions that would arise once we do discover life beyond Earth. Like: what would the first aliens we meet look life? Little green men or microbes? It's part science, part humor, and it's already a bestseller.

Ross MacPhee, the curator and paleomammalogist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, joins Cool Science Radio. Thousands of years ago—up until around the time that the first humans began to populate North America—the earth was populated by fantastical creatures. Mastodons, giant Irish deer, gorgon hippopotami, short-faced kangaroos, giant sloths: massive creatures lumbering across the primordial landscape. And then, for some reason, these animals died off. The explanation

C hief features editor from Scientific American Seth Fletcher joins Cool Science Radio. Fletcher talks about his new book, Einstein’s Shadow in which he follows scientists on an historic mission to take the first picture of a black hole, a feat that could put Einstein’s theory of relativity to its ultimate test and help to answer our deepest question about space, time, and the origins of the universe.

John and Lynn speak with the founder of the Park City Silicon Slopes chapter, Adrian Stalder. This group, started just months ago, already boasts 240 members. Adrian tells us about the upcoming event on November 14 with Lonnie Mayne from Red Shoes Living. https://siliconslopes.com/park-city/

John and Lynn speak with Paul Dawson and Brian Sheldon who have written: Did You Just Eat That? Two Scientists Explore Double Dipping, the Five- Second Rule, and Other Food Myths in the Lab. This book answers questions we’ve always had; Are electric hand dryers really bacteria blowers? Are we spraying germs everywhere when we blow out candles on the birthday cake? Should we all share popcorn from the same bowl?

Science journalist Matt Simon joins Cool Science Radio. Simon has written Plight of the Living Dead. Zombieism isn't just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead . It's real, and it’s happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms, to dogs and moose—and even humans. Nothing Hollywood dreams up can match the brilliant, horrific zombies that natural selection has produced time and time again. Halloween move over...the real science stuff is much scarier.

The Virtual Identity Summit takes place at Canyons Village on November 6 and 7, 2018. The event is orchestrated by Morph3D, a Salt Lake City based avatar company. Our guests, Matt Wilburn and Berk Frei from Morph 3D explain what virtual, augmented and now mixed, or X- realities are and hihglights what attendees can expect from the first-of-its-kind Summit that features some of the world leaders in VR, AR, and XR. From how VR and other realities deliver us into how stories are told to how