Cool Science Radio

Cool Science Radio speaks with noted entomologist, Michael Engel, to discuss his passion: insects. Michael is a research affiliate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and University Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Senior Curator of Entomology at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He explores the topic of insects in a beautiful new book called Inumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth.

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 Burke 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

On October 10, 2018, Cool Science Radio co-host John Wells moderated a panel at the Future in Review Conference in Deer Valley. The subject: The Health of Our Oceans . The panelists were: 1. Roger Payne, Founder and President of Ocean Alliance, best known for his discovery that humpback whales sing songs and for his calculation showing that the sounds of fin and blue whales can be heard across oceans; 2. James Balog, writer and photographer for the 2013 documentary Chasing Ice. This film won an

Cool Science Radio speaks with Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center. Dennis is responsible for technical oversight and advanced program formulation for many disciplines within NASA. During a 55-year career Dennis has authored over 250 publications and/or major presentations including 30 invited briefs per year to the US Intelligence Community; US, Canadian, and NATO national security organizations as well as many government and university related organizations on

Lynn Ware Peek and guest co-host Bruce Kasanoff speak with science writer Henry Nicholls. While narcolepsy is often brought up in jest, it’s no laughing matter - especially for someone who has been diagnosed with it - like Nicholls, who has had narcolepsy (which is intense and uncontrollable sleepiness) for half his life. Curiously, he also has insomnia, which is also prevalent for those who are narcoleptic. Nicholls decided to delve into the world of sleep disorders, and what he has found is

Lynn Ware Peek and guest co-host Bruce Kasanoff welcome neuroscientist, Dr. Kelly Lambert, who describes the brain’s ability to make contingency calculations - which predict the outcome of decisions and actions. Lambert,a psychology professor at the University of Richmond, has researched what goes awry when the brain’s information systems are compromised and how we can lose the ability to arrive at informed decisions. She presents her work in a new book called Well-Grounded: The Neurobiology of

John Wells and Lynn Ware Peek speak with Chris Fischer, founder and expedition leader for OCEARCH, a data-centric organization that's an enterprise built to help scientists collect previously unobtainable data in the ocean. OCEARCH is on its first expedition to the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, after following the multi-year migratory tracks laid down by great white sharks Lydia, Hilton, and George. The work they started in 2012 suggests this area could be a potential mating site for the North

Our first guest this morning is Dr. Con Slobodchikoff, author of Chasing Doctor Dolittle: Learning the Language of Animals. Con is President and CEO, Animal Communications and professor emeritus at Northern Arizona University. We will speak with Con about communicating with man’s best friend, the domestic dog.

We speak first this morning with Andrew Howley of Adventure Scientists. While the organization is based out of Bozeman, MT, it matches global adventurers with scientists who need data collected from the most remote, difficult to get to outposts in the world. It’s crowd sourcing at its best.

Science writer David Quammen joins the show. His new book is called 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 - it’s called horizontal gene transfer and it makes up about eight percent of our genome. This is the story of evolutionary biology that you've never before heard.