News & Views - 50th Anniversary of Can You Pass the Acid Test? Hacker ISIS Trolling Day, Death by Rollercoaster, Fish Emotions, Secrets & Lies & a Search Engine

Listen Now to News & Views 12.08.2015

Santa Cruz was abuzz with the still living Merry Pranksters for the 50th Anniversary of the very first acid test this weekend, with some amazing parties. Quite amazing, from which we’ll be posting some video shortly.

Our callers largely shaped the scope and content of today’s news segment, as we discussed the latest plans of the hacker group, Anonymous, and their plans for an ISIS Trolling Day, a plan for a roller coaster that kills with ecstatic experience, evidence that fish may feel, a new search engine that spawned some discussion on secrets and lies, an AI lie detector, and some talk about the memes we kick around on talk radio related to religion. Enjoy!

Guest - Dr. Bruce Damer with live music by Jim Matus and Galen Brandt

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Dr. Bruce Damer shares with us some of his experiences of late, including a major ‘schmooze cruize’ in the Carribean, Summit at Sea, with thousands of notable ‘influencers’, such as tech entrepreneur Uber CEO TravisDr. Bruce Damer photo- Reno DeCaro Kalanick and Google chairman Eric Schmidt to Martha Stewart. We also explore the highlights of an innovative tech conference we all visited in Silicon Valley recently, idtechex.com, and discuss this week’s New Tech Meetup in Santa Cruz, where Bruce will be speaking on his asteroid capture project. 

To bring some holiday cheer to this broadcast, we have Jim Matus and Galen Brandt in studio to end the show with some beautiful music, an original composition with Jim’s unique stringed instrument, the Laoutar. 

Enjoy!

Galen Brandt and Jim Matus photo - Reno DeCaro

Future News- Global Gathering on Human Genetic Bioengineering, Bugs as Drugs, Bridge Building by Army Ants, Latest Pirate TV, Driverless Racing Cars,

Listen Now to Future News 12.01.2015

Boy oh boy, from eliminating inherited diseases to creating designer babies, never before has so much been possible with human genetic bioengineering.  A big conference on the topic is now going on in Washington D.C., at the same time as the huge Paris conference on the Environment- a big week for global conferences!

We also delve a bit into the scintillating topics of the special bridge-building swarm behavior of Army Ants, and disease-curing stratagies  related to our personal microbiome in the gut.   Towards the end of this report our guest for the second hour, Dr. Bruce Damer, comes on early to comment on how the racing paradigm has indeed pushed autonomous cars forward on their evolutionary spiral into the present.  Enjoy!

Future News - Blue Origin Gets into Space, ID TechEx explored, New qTeleportation Record Set, Cannabis bio-plastic created, MIT Time Capsule uncovered, Picture Phone almost changed everything, Particle Accelerator in a Shoebox, Biolab in a Breadbox

Listen Now to Future News 11.24.2015

Thanksgiving week is full of amazing future news, congrats to Jeff Bezos and the Blue Origin team for getting into space with their new craft!  We had a great tour of the high tech trade show IDTechEx and share our findings in a report this week.  

And least we forget the MIT time capsule from 1957 that was accidently found with a note in it, saying “Please Don’t Open til 2957.”  It had some very interesting contents, including an early invention that challenged the transistor itself..

Plus I can’t wait for my Amino kitchen BioLab, and soon, a particle accelerator in a shoebox from Stanford! It’s getting fun now, enjoy the show, and Happy Thanksgiving!

Interview - Ayman Sawaf on Emotional Literacy and Terrorism

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From the Middle East and a pioneer in the worlds of Emotional Literacy and Sacred Commerce, Ayman helps us get a grip on what’s happening in the minds of the ISIS/ISIL terrorists that are commanding so much of our attention these days.  One of the key emotions to understand, according to Ayman, is shame and how it works, how it can numb the mind and other feelings, leading to the violence we are seeing.  Ayman also discusses how working on the inner worlds of one’s emotions can directly affect the way the outer world is experienced and lived.  So… are you at peace with your ‘inner terrorist’? If not, then we strongly recommend this show. And even if you are, you’ll enjoy the spirit that Ayman brings to this difficult issue.