Has this ever happened to you? Walking up to your favorite local restaurant, looking forward to a delicious meal only to discover ... it has failed its restaurant inspection!

Yuck. I think there are few events that will convince you to eat at home more.

But what if there was a way to anticipate if a restaurant was at risk of failing an inspection well before this actually happened? In this episode, we will hear from James Howard, a scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, whose research has helped identify if a restaurant will fail an inspection before it actually happens.