This week features an interview with Aerospace Engineer Mike Paul Hughes. We chat about upcoming missions, speculate on life, and Mike reminds us why it's important to study history.

Also, a bad case of bad science headlines.

On this weeks news show: CRISPR for Glaucoma, Nobel Prizes, moon, Mars, and some thoughts on guns and con man Alex Jones.

This week I have an interview with astrophysicist Steve Kilston of Interstellar Consultants. One of Steve's projects is a practical and well thought out 500 year plan for building a ship that could take us to another star system. This is not pie-in-the-sky stuff, this is grounded in practical knowledge.

Also, Australia gets its own space agency.

This week is an all news show in the new show format. We have Osiris Rex, human embryo editing, 3d printed aluminum, high tech guitar strings, and more.

This week an essay on a darker topic - whether the US will have another Civil War in the near future. Can it be avoided? Are we already locked in conflict, and how do we break out?

Also, a change in show format.

This week I've got a bunch of cool short news bits I've been saving up, it's time to catch up. Cassini, Voyager, Mars, Universal Basic Income, Robot artists, and more

This week is a further examination of Alvin Toffler's writings and ideas. He wrote about the near future, which we are living in today.

Also, new cancer treatments, an asteroid flyby, and water on exoplanets.

This week we talk Alvin Toffler and his 1970 book Future Shock. We look at the present through a future lens from the past... or something.

Also, Sean falls down a Wikipedia rabbit hole.

This week features an interview with Dr. Kevin Folta, professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida, and host of the Talking Biotech podcast.

Also, I beg for money the 21st century way.

This week we further examine nanotech. How does one actually work at the nanoscale, and what might the far future bring?

Also, Carl Sagan's sad prediction coming true.