Cool Science Radio

Richard Brown, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Utah joins Cool Science Radio. He was just honored with the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence, the U’s highest faculty accolade. The $50,000 cash award is presented annually to a faculty member who transcends ordinary teaching, research and administrative efforts.

Jonathan Johnson, President of Medici Ventures, which is a subsidiary of Overstock.com. Jonathan is currently on the board at Overstock and was their President and acting CEO for a number of years. Medici invests in firms building solutions leveraging and servicing blockchain technologies. Medici Ventures has a growing portfolio of groundbreaking new companies and tech businesses.

Professor Brian Keating of UCSD joins the program to discuss his new book, Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor . As we know, the Nobel Prize is not only the most prestigious award in Science, it’s also humanity’s most esteemed accolade, its most sacred cow. But, winning that prize can take on a competition that trumps the collaboration that is so needed, especially among scientists, to advance their work. Keating has written about

Anna Yen joins the show to discuss her new book, Sophia of Silicon Valley . Yen has worked at a wide range of tech companies. She spearheaded investor relations for industry leaders such as Tesla Motors, Market Watch, and Pixar Animations Studios, and reported directly to some of Silicon Valley's most respected leaders. She has co-founded several tech start-ups and is currently Managing Director at Ellipsis, an investor relations firm. In her spare time she has written a humorous novel about,

Steve Brusatte, a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh, joins Lynn and guest co-host Chris Cherniak. Brusatte's new book is called The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World. Brusatte gives us a sweeping scientific history of the dinosaurs, in narrative form, and tells us why today is the golden age of paleontology and why dinosaurs continue to, fascinate humans.

Earl Foote and Travis Gunn of Nexus IT join us to talk about the latest in cyber security, how much of your data is being stored and shared, and other bizarre stories from the world of technology.

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

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)

Lynn and John speak with Michael Ruzek, the man behind Powder Buoy. By day, Rusek is in the financial services industry in Park City; at night he is the superhero Powder Buoy, who predicts powder storms two weeks after a buoy off the coast of Kauai pops to a certain wave height.

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