Author and entrepreneur Steve Lucas highlights actual, doable uses of AI and the potential benefits for small business in his new book "Digital Impact: The Human Element of AI-Driven Transformation." Then, one-time local, Peter Rizzo, talks about his time as the station doctor for the 77th Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition and what it’s like to live and work in Antarctica.
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Cool Science Radio | April 24, 2025
Michele Rehbein discusses the City Nature Challenge, which will take place April 25-28, 2025. This four-day annual event encourages people to find and photograph plants and wildlife in their own cities and towns using iNaturalist. Then, Izzy Vogel and Naomi O’Connor, two members of Team Minerva, a robotics team from Park City High School, tell us about their competition at the Premier event in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Cool Science Radio | May 1, 2025
Neuroscientist and doctor Kieran Fox explores Albert Einstein's little-discussed spirituality and it how it both informed and complemented his science in Fox's new book "I Am Part of Infinity." It draws on little-known conversations, recently published letters and new archival research on what Einstein really believed and why his perspective still matters today. (0:45)Then, author Timothy Morton draws on philosophers Kant and Heidegger to reframe what it means to be ecological, and what sorts of actions count as we head into an age of mass extinction in his book, "Being Ecological." (26:14)
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Cool Science Radio | April 17, 2025
Co-founders of HIRO diapers, Miki Agrawal and Tero Isokauppila, talk about the world’s first digestible diapers — that is, digested by fungi and designed to break down in landfills. Then, theoretical physicist and science writer Kathryn Zurek from the California Institute of Technology talks about the mysteries of dark matter.
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Cool Science Radio | April 10, 2025
Thure Cerling, a University of Utah professor of both geology and biology, and a pioneer in the use of isotope analysis, shares how geologists have developed a method for tracking the movements of large herbivores across landscapes, even for animals now extinct, such as mastodons and mammoths. Then, Ben Stanger discusses the history, science and wonder of the cell in his book "From One Cell: A Journey into Life’s Origins and the Future of Medicine."
Cool Science Radio is a weekly, hour-long program that focuses on the latest developments and discoveries in the fields of science and technology. Co-hosts Lynn Ware Peek and Katie Mullaly decipher what's new with science and technology experts in an entertaining, amusing and accessible way.
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