Cool Science Radio
192 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsFrom the discovery of new dinosaurs to the science of an avalanche. From the secret technology behind Facebook, to nanotechnology. Deciphering science and technology in an entertaining, amusing and accessible way. If we can understand it, so can you. Hosted by Lynn Ware Peek and Katie Mullaly.
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What is "Space Weather's" Effect on Our Planet
September 24, 2020 16:13 - 15 minutes - 927 BytesIn this episode of Cool Science Radio Dan Seaton joins the conversation about the relationship between and sun and the earth. Dan is a University of Colorado NOAA Scientist. The words "Space Weather" may conjure up images of intergalactic tornadoes and star filled blizzards, but it actually refers to the electrically charged particles and radiation from the sun. After a few quiet years, our sun is once again rampining up with activity. What does that mean for us here on earth?
Reducing the Risk of Alzheimer's
September 17, 2020 16:57 - 22 minutes - 1.3 KBBoard-certified neuropsychologist, Dr. Michelle Braun , joins Lynn and John on Cool Science Radio . Dr. Braun gives the science behind how to help arrest the onset of Alzheimers Disease. She has written an accessible and thorough book called, High-Octane Brain:5 Science-Based Steps to Sharpen Your Memory and Reduce Your Risk of Alzheimer’s .
What Are The 9 Covid-19 Myths That Just Won't Go Away
September 17, 2020 16:42 - 31 minutes - 1.83 KBOn this episode of Cool Science Radio Science journalist and health and medicine editor Tanya Lewis at Scientific American , (the longest running magazine in America) talks about her recently published article: Nine COVID-19 Myths That Just Won’t Go Away . From a human-made virus to vaccine conspiracy theories, the magazine rounded up the most persistent false claims about the pandemic.
How to Unlock Your Subconscious Power with Kimberly Friedmutter
September 10, 2020 16:43 - 26 minutes - 1.53 KBIn this epsisode of Cool Science Radio John and Lynn speak with author Kimberly Friedmutter who has written Subconscious Power: Use Your Inner Mind to Create the Life You’ve Always Wanted. Friedmutter shares with us simple techniques to help us tap into our subconscious and tells us why daydreaming is a good first step to unlocking this power.
University of Utah Is Defining A New Interdisiplinary Informatics Field In Their EAE Program
September 10, 2020 16:37 - 26 minutes - 1.57 KBIn this episode of Cool Science Radio University of Utah Professor Roger Altizer revisits with John and Lynn. The Entertainment Arts and Engineering Program at the University of Utah is a top-ranked program in video game education and research and is a national leader in the nascent discipline of games. The program is contributing to the definition of a new interdisciplinary informatics field that deeply integrates art, humanities, social science and computational research and practice. Roger...
Roving the Red Planet for Signs of Life with Perseverance Engineer Aaron Yazzie
September 03, 2020 16:57 - 15 minutes - 904 BytesIn this episode Aaron Yazzie, Mechanical Engineer for Mars Perseverance Mission , joins Cool Science Radio . Perseverance is the most robust rover ever to be sent to the Red Planet . It will take the next step in Mars exploration by seeking to answer the question: Are there any signs that life once existed on Mars?
Scientific American Celebrates 175 Years, Making It The Oldest U.S. Magazine in Publication
September 03, 2020 16:36 - 34 minutes - 2.02 KBOn this episode of Cool Science Radio John and Lynn are joined by Laura Helmuth, the editor of the longest running magazine of all time: Scientific American magazine which celebrates it's 175th anniversary this month. That's right, 175 years of bringing science conversation to the masses. They have published articles by more than 200 Nobel Prize winners as well as other world-historical scientists, inventors, technologists, physicians, and theorists, and it's a lot of fun to look back at what...
Who wants to hitch a ride to the International Space Station?
August 27, 2020 16:36 - 24 minutes - 1.43 KBIn this episode of Cool Science Radio Michael Horkachuck who manages NASA/ SpaceX Commercial Crew program joins the show. The next astronaut mission dubbed Crew-1 and scheduled for October 23rd marks the first of regular rotational missions to the International Space Station by the SpaceX Crew Dragon. 4 astronauts will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket.
Going After Great White Sharks..."You're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat!"
August 27, 2020 16:10 - 28 minutes - 1.69 KBIn this episode of Cool Science Radio Park City resident Chris Fischer, founder and expedition leader for OCEARCH talks shark. Fischer’s company is a recognized world leader in generating critical scientific data related to tracking and studying great white sharks. Chris joins us from the OCEARCH research vessel off the coast of New England as they begin day 1 of expedition 37.
Are We Living in the Pandemic Century?
August 13, 2020 20:20 - 22 minutes - 1.32 KBIn this episode of Cool Science Radio hosts John Wells and Lynn Ware Peek welcome Mark Honigsbuam who, over a year ago wrote The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris . It was an ample foreshadowing of 2020 and he joins us again to talk about the new chapter he has just added to his book, about Coronavirus.
The Driverless Car: The Future or Just a Red Herring
August 13, 2020 20:10 - 25 minutes - 1.5 KBCool Science Radio hosts John Wells and Lynn Ware Peek interview Anthony Townsend, an author and consultant working at the intersection of urbanization and digital technology who joins the show. When self-driving technology infects buses, bikes, delivery vans, and even buildings…a wild, woollier, future awaits. Anthony has written Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car .
Telescopes that Show More Detail Than Ever Before
August 11, 2020 15:00 - 23 minutes - 1.36 KBDave Kieda, Dean, The Graduate School and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utah and Nolan Matthews, graduate research assistant at the University of Utah join Lynn and John this week on Cool Science Radio . They are part of a team of scientists and educators that have developed an array of telescopes that will provide unparalleled resolution and detail that will help to improve our understanding of faraway stellar systems.
Utah's Hogle Zoo's New Baby Gorilla
August 11, 2020 15:00 - 26 minutes - 1.57 KBThis week on Cool Science Radio, Lynn and John are joined by Steve Burns, CEO, and President of the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City. Burns talks about what you can see in person and virtually at the zoo. Burns will also talk about the July 6 birth of a baby girl gorilla. This is the first successful birth of a Western Lowland Gorilla in the Zoo’s 89-year history.
Scientific Explanations Are More Common Than Ever But We Still Believe in the Unexplained
July 30, 2020 19:32 - 22 minutes - 1.3 KBWriter, speaker, and academic, Colin Dickey joins Cool Science Radio this week. Dickey has written, The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, And Our Obsession With The Unexplained. In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational and one the fringe is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster, the list goes on.
Scientific Explainations Are More Common Than Ever But We Still Believe in the Unexplained
July 30, 2020 19:32 - 22 minutes - 1.3 KBWriter, speaker, and academic, Colin Dickey joins Cool Science Radio this week. Dickey has written, The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, And Our Obsession With The Unexplained. In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational and one the fringe is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster, the list goes on.
David Quammen on His Book That Predicts a COVID-19-like Pandemic
July 28, 2020 13:49 - 27 minutes - 1.62 KBDavid Quammen joins Lynn and John on Cool Science Radio this week. Quammen is an author and journalist whose books include The Song of the Dodo , The Reluctant Mr. Darwin , The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. Quammen was interviewed on Cool Science Radio back in 2018 about The Tangled Tree. He also wrote Spillover in 2012, which predicts a COVID-19 type world pandemic as animal viruses have the ability to spillover to humans.
The Science of Skin
July 24, 2020 20:52 - 20 minutes - 1.22 KBThis week on Cool Science Radio, John and Lynn are joined by James Hamblin. Hamblin has written the book, CLEAN: The New Science of Skin . Keeping skin healthy is a booming industry, and yet it seems like almost no one agrees on what actually works. Confusing messages from health authorities and ineffective treatments have left many people desperate for reliable solutions. In his new book, James Hamblin explores how we got here, examining the science and culture of how we care for our skin to...
How an Author Became a Professional Poker Player
July 16, 2020 16:26 - 24 minutes - 1.41 KBNew York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor Maria Konnikova joins Lynn and John on Cool Science Radio . Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn’t even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel , Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. Maria parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professiona...
How a Park City Company is Creating Easy to Use Smart Lighting Products
July 12, 2020 19:57 - 17 minutes - 1.03 KBJoining Lynn and John on Cool Science Radio is, Eric Miller, President, and CEO of Park City-based Avi-on Labs . Avi-on designs and builds a family of Bluetooth® enabled lighting products that are reliable, state of the art, easy to configure and manage with any smartphone or tablet.
How a Constellation of Satellites Help Study Landslides
July 12, 2020 19:41 - 26 minutes - 1.56 KBJoining Lynn and John on Cool Science Radio this week is Dr. Dalia Kirschbaum, a Research Physical Scientist in the Hydrological Sciences Lab at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center , in Greenbelt, MD. Dr. Kirschbaum has a number of responsibilities in the study of landslides including developing new techniques for rainfall-triggered landslide hazard assessment and forecasting. She is also the Associate Deputy Project Scientist for Applications for the GPM Mission. GPM stands for Global Precipi...
Author Marta Zaraska Talks About Her New Book and How Friendships Help You Live Longer
June 25, 2020 19:18 - 22 minutes - 1.32 KBAuthor and journalist Marta Zaraska joins Lynn and John on Cool Science Radio today. Zaraska has written " Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100 ”. This book is based on hundreds of research papers and on interviews with dozens of leading scientists from fields as diverse as molecular biochemistry, cyber psychology, and zoology. Do you want to live longer? Miracle diets, miracle foods, miracle supplements may not be the answer. Friendships. Purpose in l...
Our Return to the Moon
June 25, 2020 18:59 - 25 minutes - 1.52 KBToday on Cool Science Radio, Lynn and John are joined by Dr. Jacob Bleacher . Dr. Bleacher is the Chief Exploratio n Scientist of Advanced Exploration Systems , a division of NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate . Humans have not walked on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. In Greek mythology, Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo. Artemis is also the name of the next moon mission where NASA will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. They will be using i...
Discussing One of the First Books Published About COVID-19
June 23, 2020 21:30 - 22 minutes - 1.34 KBS cience journalist Debora Mackenzie joins John and Lynn on Cool Science Radio. She has written the first book to be published on CoVid-19. She joins to discuss : COVID -19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One . She discusses the previous viruses that should have prepared us, the shocking public health failures that led to this disaster, and the failure to contain the outbreak.
Learning from Amazon and Jeff Bezos
June 23, 2020 21:05 - 24 minutes - 1.46 KBBrian Dumaine is an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor at Fortune magazine. He joins Lynn and John on Cool Science Radio to discuss his new book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World’s Best Companies Are Learning From It , which offers a fascinating look at Jeff Bezos and the company he built which is disrupting the business world, the physical retail landscape, and nearly all of consumer behavior.
Using our Microbiome to Change the Way We Live
June 12, 2020 21:41 - 17 minutes - 1.05 KBJohn and Lynn are joined by Raja Dhir on Cool Science Radio. He is the co-founder of Seed Health Seed Health is a microbial sciences company accelerating breakthrough science into live biotherapeutics and innovations for consumer health. There's a community of 38 trillion microorganisms (mostly bacteria) living in and on us. This is our microbiome—our non-human half, that as it turns out, we can’t live without. Seed believes that our microbiome will radically transforming our approach to medi...
Recaping the Historic NASA/SpaceX Launch
June 12, 2020 21:20 - 33 minutes - 1.96 KBOn May 30, 2020, Astronauts Doug Hurley, and Bob Behnken launched from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. This marks the first launch of humans from American soil since 2011, with the retirement of the Space Shuttle. This launch also marks the first launch of humans into space by a private company. Two hours before launch Cool Science Radio 's John Wells interviewed NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard who was in Cape Canaveral getting ready for the days launch. Jim helps provide ov...
Recapping the Historic NASA/SpaceX Launch
June 12, 2020 21:20 - 33 minutes - 1.96 KBOn May 30, 2020, Astronauts Doug Hurley, and Bob Behnken launched from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. This marks the first launch of humans from American soil since 2011, with the retirement of the Space Shuttle. This launch also marks the first launch of humans into space by a private company. Two hours before launch Cool Science Radio 's John Wells interviewed NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard who was in Cape Canaveral getting ready for the days launch. Jim helps provide ov...
Galileo Had Similar Challenges With Science Deniers As Modern Day Scientists
June 04, 2020 16:22 - 23 minutes - 1.38 KBCool Science Radio welcomes astrophysicist Mario Livio who has written a new book titled Galileo: And the Science Deniers . Disturbed by rampant science denial in America—and around the world—that has only intensified in recent years, Livio began researching the life, ideas, and actions of Galileo, this brilliant man who encountered similar pressures centuries ago. The result is a biography filled with lessons rel evant for today—whether with respect to trusting the advice given by scientists...
How To Talk To Kids About Climate Change
June 04, 2020 16:18 - 22 minutes - 1.34 KBHarriet Shugarman joins Cool Science Radio. She is the executive director of ClimateMama, professor of Global Climate Change Policy and World Sustainability, and Chair of the Climate Reality Project (NYC), joins to talk about how she helps parents explain the climate crisis to their kids, overcome overwhelming fear, and find hope to galvanize positive action. Her new book is How To Talk To Your Kids About Climate Change. Turning Angst in Action.
The History of Studying the Brain
May 28, 2020 21:45 - 20 minutes - 1.22 KBLynn and John are joined by Matthew Cobb on Cool Science Radio . Cobb has written The Idea of the Brain, the Past and Future of Neuroscience . For thousands of years, philosophers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain, with its 86 billion neurons, connected in infinite ways, does. Yet, despite the astonishing discoveries of science, we still have only the vaguest idea of how the brain works. We will speak with Matthew about the history of brain science but more importantly wh...
How Studying the Sun Helps Us Learn More About Space and Our Planet
May 28, 2020 21:35 - 29 minutes - 1.71 KBDr. Nicola Fox joins Lynn and John on Cool Science Radio . She is the Heliophysics Division Director in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Heliophysics is the science of the Sun which studies the physical connections between the Sun and our solar system. Lynn and John speak to Dr. Fox about NASA’s Heliophysics program including the Parker Solar Probe that will take measurements from the Sun’s corona where it is 2500 degrees and the Solar Orbiter which will...
Cool Science Radio - May 21, 2020
May 21, 2020 19:08 - 51 minutes - 3.04 KBIt's loud here at KPCW as we are in the final days of remodeling the KPCW studios. John and Lynn have picked out two interviews from the archives for you to enjoy. They will be back next week with more Cool Science Radio. Thanks for listening!
Bob Chamberlain of MTI Talks About VIPER
May 15, 2020 19:47 - 24 minutes - 1.46 KBBob Chamberlain, President of MTI joins Lynn and John on Cool Science Radio this week. Monterey Technologies Inc is based here in Park City. They have developed a product called VIPER (Visual Planning, Execution, and Review). The software lets military and commercial planners execute complex missions on the fly. Monterey Technologies has just been named as a Small Business Innovation Research Success Story for its ViPER Mission Planning Application.
Cool Science Radio - May 7th, 2020 - Andrea Rothman
May 08, 2020 23:10 - 18 minutes - 1.09 KBOlfactory scientist and researcher turned novelist Andrea Rothman who has written The DNA Of You and Me in which she takes her science background and weaves in into an engaging love story of sorts.... one that takes place in the lab and among strains of DNA. She talks about how smell works and how olfactory sensory neurons reach their targets in the brain and how they process smell.
How Our Best Friends Are Becoming Our Best Medicine
May 08, 2020 23:08 - 28 minutes - 1.69 KBVeteran journalist and New York Times Bestselling author Maria Goodavage joins the show. Before it was announced that researchers at UPenn have started to train dogs to try to detect COVID-19 , Our guest was already on the case, explaining how scientists were studying if it was even possible in the first place . Now that two of the biggest biodetection dog centers have entered the COVID-19 detection ring, Goodavage’s book Doctor Dogs contains all you need to know about how dogs are trained to...
Facebook: The Inside Story Author Explains the Social Media Company
April 30, 2020 21:25 - 28 minutes - 1.67 KBSteven Levy who has written FACEBOOK The Inside Story . For three years, tech writer Steven Levy has had unprecedented access to Facebook’s key executives and employees, including Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. His new book FACEBOOK: The Inside Story is a fascinating narrative that digs deep into the company’s history, revealing fascinating new insights as he tells the full story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences.
Discussing Medicines That Might Help COVID-19 Treatment
April 30, 2020 21:00 - 18 minutes - 1.06 KBJosh Fischman, Senior Editor of Life Sciences & Earth Sciences at Scientific American magazine joins Lynn and John on Cool Science Radio . As the world waits for medical advancement to fight the CoVid-19, research, tests and development is occurring in labs and universities around the world. On April 6 it was widely reported that an oral medicine called EIDD-2801 was able to hinder the coronavirus behind COVID-19 as it attempted to replicate itself in human lung cells in test tubes.
Cool Science Radio - Brian Greene
April 16, 2020 19:16 - 25 minutes - 1.48 KBBrian Greene joins Cool Science Radio today to discuss his new book, Until the End of Time . The book is Brian’s new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to find meaning in the face of this vast expanse. Greene takes us on a journey from the big bang to the end of time. From particles to planets, consciousness to creativity, matter to meaning—Brian’s new book allows us all to grasp and appreciate our fleeting but utterly exquisite moment in the cosmos. [This interview was recorded on March...
Dr. Matthew Chabot Of U Of U Healthcare Sheds Light On Commonly Asked Questions
April 09, 2020 20:47 - 20 minutes - 1.21 KBInternal medicine Dr. Matthew Chabot from the Univeristy of Utah Healthcare joins Cool Science Radio. One of his areas of expertise is infectious disease and like every medical expert out there right now, Dr. Chabot is focused on CoVid-19. As a primary care internal medical doctor, he focuses on infectious medicine. It seems like much of what we heard a month ago about symptoms, infection, and testing has now changed. A month ago, we weren’t supposed to wear masks unless we were sick, now it ...
Virtual And Augmented Reality Changing The Way Dentistry Is Learned And Performed At U Of U
April 09, 2020 20:38 - 27 minutes - 1.6 KBCool Science Radio speaks with Dr. Mark Durham from the University of Utah School of Dentistry. Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) in teaching and in dental practice will improve dental health across the globe as students are learning exacting procedures like root canals using VR long before they ever dive into the mouth of a real person. In fact, AR is are changing the way we can learn. We spoke with Dr. Durham last month about the revolutionary ways that dental students are lea...
Cool Science Radio - Ann Druyan
April 02, 2020 18:50 - 20 minutes - 1.18 KB[This interview orginally aired for the first time on April 2nd, 2020, but was recorded in early March, 2020] Cool Science Radio is joined by Ann Druyan (Dree-Ann) who in 1980 with her husband Carl Sagan co-wrote what would become the most iconic science-based television series in history and its companion, one of the top-selling science books of all time—COSMOS. The book sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. Now, 40 years later, Ann is releasing the sequel to the book, COSMOS with COSM...
Discover Magazine Tells The Stories Of The Science That Matters In 2020
April 02, 2020 17:11 - 27 minutes - 1.6 KB[Rebroadcast: This interview originally aired on January 9th, 2020] Cool Science Radio speaks with Gemma Tarlach, Senior Editor of Discover Magazine . Gemma joined the show last year to talk about Discover’s September/October cover story on The Science of Gun Violence . It was an eye-opening conversation that you can listen to here . Gemma is back, this time to discuss the most important science stories of the previous year and their potential impact into the future. The Science That Matters ...
Assistant Professor Michael Vershinin Talks About the Coronavirus from a Physics Perspective
March 27, 2020 17:12 - 21 minutes - 1.25 KBIn this episode of Cool Science Radio Michael Vershinin, assistant professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Utah talks with Lynn and John about COVID -19. One of the biggest unknowns about the coronavirus is it’s sensitivity to humidity and temperature and how changing seasons will affect its spread. Michael along with Saveez Saffarian have received a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research grant to quickly tackle these important questions.
Nexus IT CEO Earle Foote Let's Us Know The Best Technology To Use While Working From Home
March 27, 2020 17:12 - 29 minutes - 1.72 KBIn this episode of Cool Science Radio Earl Foote who is the CEO, for NexusIT Consultants joins Lynn and John. Foote’s company is an IT Support and Computer Services company based in Park City UT. They provide rapid response IT services in Salt Lake City and across Northern Utah. We will be speaking with Earl about best in class tools and services that employers and employees can use to work, attend class and conference from home.
Scientific American updates from Associate Editor Tanya Lewis on COVID -19
March 19, 2020 19:00 - 23 minutes - 1.36 KBOn this episode of Cool Science Radio Associate Editor of Health and Medicine at Scientific American Magazine Tanya Lewis talks COVID-19. She talks about the transmistion rate, the R-naught factor, what they are learning and updates about the disease happening right now.
From The Spanish Flu to The Coronovirus: A Survey Of The History Of Pandemics
March 19, 2020 17:32 - 26 minutes - 1.54 KBMedical historian and journalist Mark Honigsbaum joins Cool Science Radio . He surveys the last century of scientific struggle against an enduring enemy: deadly contagious disease, from the Spanish flu through the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics. The last one hundred years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms. He joins to update on the latest pandemic, the Corona Virus. He's currently writing an epilogue to include CoVid-19 in his book, published last ...
Robotic Exoskeleton Takes Weight Off Your Quads and Knees For Blissful Skiing
February 27, 2020 22:53 - 21 minutes - 1.26 KBToday we speak with Clay Karz and DJ Glusker of Roam Robotics . Let’s face it, skiing is hard work and the anaerobic nature of skiing means we have a finite number of runs we can take, and fewer if we are recovering from an injury or if we have the problem of too many birthdays. What if there were a robotic device designed to take some of the pressure or offload weight from your quads and knees to enable seasoned skiers to continue to do the sport they love and have longer ski days? Enter Roa...
Civilization's First System Of Algorithms: Astrology
February 27, 2020 19:03 - 24 minutes - 1.45 KBC ool Science Radio welcomes data scientist Alexander Boxer who talks about his new book A Scheme Of Heaven . Algorithms seem to control our daily lives and even determine what shows up in our social media feeds and what we ought to purchase. But in this conversation, we take a look at civilization's first system of algorithms, from Babylon and now to the present. It's the surprising history and scienc eof astrology. Boxer's book recontextualizes astrology as a vast, technological project.
Solar Orbiter On Its Way To Study The Sun
February 20, 2020 18:21 - 20 minutes - 1.19 KBCool Science Radio welcomes guest Dr. Holly Gilbert who is the Director of the Heliophysics Science Division, Chief of the Solar Physics Laboratory and the NASA Deputy Project Scientist for the Solar Orbiter, a spacecraft that launched Sunday, February 9, and is on its way to the sun. It will study the electromagnetic characteristics of the solar wind, enabling them to tackle mysteries such as the 11-year cycle of solar activity, the generation of the Sun’s magnetic field and how solar wind p...
Two Female Pilots And Their Passionate Fight For Space
February 20, 2020 17:47 - 27 minutes - 1.62 KBC ool Science Radio speaks with historian and author Amy Shira Teitel who has written Fighting For Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle For Female Spaceflight. This book is the mostly unknown tale of Jackie Cochran , and Jerrie Cobb, two accomplished aviatrixes, one generation apart, who each dreamed of being the first woman in space, but along the way battled their egos, their expectations, and ultimately the patriarchal society that stood between them and the stars.