Dr. Future News - Alien Space Probes, Autonomous Volvo, License Plate trackers, Human motion power, Gold Rush era discards the new gold, Dolphins use Names

Listen Now to Dr. Future News 7.23.13

A good news week, with some great info and tales that will amuse and amaze you.  I particularly like the garbage to gold story of how the tailings of 19th century California and Nevada mines may contain valuable rare earth elements. And of course, the story on how we can harvest energy from our body movements..Simply fascinating, even though we only actually move about 7% of our time!

Enjoy!

Dr. Bruce Damer - Update on Origin of Life and Asteroid Space Dust

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This week we get an update from our local scientist Bruce Damer on his research in the Origin of Life and his latest proposal to NASA on a means for harnessing the energy of asteroids for fueling further space exploration.

Dr. Future News - China Goes Solar, Cancer's Deep Evolutionary Roots, Sonic Levitation, AI IQ, Hyperloop - Elon Musk's secret new project, DIY Drone Kit, Open Source GMO, wtf?

Listen now to Dr. Future News 7.16. 13

Quite an interesting potpurri of topics today intermixed with some deep thought, such as the origins of cancer cells  and open souce genetically modified organisms..what does this  mean?.. Enjoy!

Future News - Curiousity and Snowdon on the Move, Glass catches arrest on Jersey Shore, Guest Kelly Durkin on the Fijian Experience

Listen to Dr. Future Show 7.09.13 Kelly Durkin

This week, NASA’s Martian Curiousity rover is on the move, Glass catches it’s first arrest, and we catch up with Kelly Durkin, on her quest to build an eco resort in a very remote area of the planet, the island of Koro in Fiji.  She shares with us her experiences and insights into the local people, who were catapulted very quickly into the 21st century, especially lately with the recent advent of smart phones in just the last few years.  What could our sophisticated minds learn from these recent stone age people of our species?  Kelly clues us in..

Photo by Peter Booth Lee 

Guest - Physicist Poet Dr. Len Anderson

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We had a an opportunity to meet Len Anderson last weekend and had a very stimulating conversation on physics and art and various other sundry topics.. simply delightful!  To make a long story short, we invited him to our show this week to share him with you, including his unique Science meets Art poetry.

 

Len Anderson has a BA and PhD in Physics from UC Berkeley.  He worked for four years in experimental elementary particle physics and nearly 16 years at Measurex Corporation (now part of Honeywell), developing sensors for the automation of paper manufacturing.  He and his wife have lived in Live Oak since 1998.

Len has been writing poetry since 1985 and has studied with Richard Maxwell, Robert Bly, Joseph Stroud, Joseph McNeilly and Sally Ashton.  His work has appeared in a variety of literary journals, anthologies and other publications.  He is a winner of the Dragonfly Press Poetry Competition, the Mary Lönnberg Smith Poetry Award (Cabrillo College), has received a Pushcart nomination from The DMQ Review, and was awarded the 2011 Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement from Dragonfly Press.  He has published two collections of poems, Invented by the Night (2011) and Affection for the Unknowable(2003), both from Hummingbird Press. He has also published a chapbook,BEEP: A Version of the History of the Personal Computer Rendered in Free Verse in the Manner of Howl by Allen Ginsberg.