Exploring the Boundaries of the Heliosphere, Senate Bill wants Search Engines to Divulge Algorithms, Jeffery A. Martin on the Upcoming TransTech Conference, Frank Schwartz on New Wildfires and the latest on the Kincaide Fire, PG&E discussion, Rats Find Driving Relaxing.

Listen Now to Future News 11.05.2019

A series of reports have come in on the nature of the very boundaries of our solar system; we give you an update. We think you’ll also appreciate hearing about the tranformative technology conference coming up next week in Palo Alto, all about tech and people that plans to permanently move a billion people into a state of wellbeing and flourishing by 2030. We talk to the co-founder of the event, Dr. Jeffery Martin to find out how.

Also this week is a follow-up report from our firetracker, Frank Schwartz, on new wildfires, and the massive Kincaide Fire near Santa Rosa, and what we are learning from PG&E’s preventative blackouts and evacuation strategies.  And, after a rather serious discussion on this and related topics, we delve into some research on stress, where rats were trained to drive little cars. Their findings, male rats like to drive for relieving stress, go figure..Enjoy!

Future News - PGE Power Discussion, Wildfire and Outage update with Frank Schwartz, Internet 50, X-37B lands after two years in space, New Lunar Rover, Sperm in Space, Psilocybin from Bacteria, The nearby Dwarf Planet Hygieia, Exploring Dark Mater via Expanding Galaxies, Laser-Mediated Nuclear Waste Reduction via Transmutation

Listen Now to Future News 10.29.2019

This week has been tough for us Californians regarding wildfires and preventative blackouts, and our listeners had a lot to say about it, including some good preventitive suggestions for future scenarios, like reducing the forest fuel loads and more trimming and closer monitoring of the transmission lines. Our firetracker, Frank Schwartz checked in briefly, as his bandwidth was very limited in the blackout zone known as Sebastopol. He’ll be back next week for a more comprehensive report.  

Other news includes the landing of the X37B spaceplane after two years in orbit, the 50th anniversary of the Internet, a new lunar rover mission to look for water ice, sperm in space experiments, the asteroid Hygieia is now recognized as a dwarf planet, a new telescope at Kitts Peak in Arizona will observe thousands of galaxies in studying the nature of dark matter and why the Universe is accelerating it’s expansion, and how powerful short pulsing lasers can reduce the radioactive half life of nuclear waste! Enjoy..

NorCal Wildfire Map 2019

The Dr.Mrs. Future Show - Blackout update, The Canadian Election, Bioneers gather, Women spacewalk, New Plans for Lunar Exploration, Waze vs Google Maps, Ford building auto E-charging Network, Mini-Brains Evolve, Blue Light ages biology, New gene editing advances, blood sugar and Altzheimers

Listen Now to the Dr.Mrs. Future Show 10.22.2019

Lots of interesting news this week, incuding a PGE blackout update, the Canadian elections, Bioneers,  the first all femae spacewak, new plans for exporing the moon, Waze vs the updated Google Maps, the new Lilium VTOL air taxi from Germany, a coast to coast eletrical car charging network by Ford,  more sophisticated mini-brains that may have some awareness, new gene editing tools, the danger of blue light, and a connection between blood sugar and Alzheimer’s.  We aso feature great audio of the world’s loudest bird from the Amazon rainforest!

And then there is our call-in to Lars Ling and the Nordics of Start North, a Finnish program for evolving the educational system of their country, and the rest of us, while they are at it! VR & 5G for all?  Check it out..

The Start North crew visit Stanford University

The Dr. Mrs. Future Show - Blackout Aftermath, Night Gallery reminiscence, Solar/Battery Payoff, Extremophiles and Venus Envy, Open Studios Tour info, a local Black Hole light show, Icon and the Ionosphere, Wakanda and the new Disney Avenger's Campus, Richard Cray sings The Galaxy Song

Listen Now to the Dr.Mrs. Future Show 10.15.2019

This show has lots of content and guests and callers, making it really fun to hear (and educational too!). With our regular irregulars from LA, Richard Cray and Greg Panos, we reflect on last week’s PGE power outages, even reaching back to a classic Night Gallery episode involving an epic power failure.. and in space news we take a new look at Venus and recent info suggesting she was always a ‘hell world’  that only an extremeophile could love.  

We have Anne Ostermann on for a segment, discussing the amazing lineup of artists you can visit this weekend in their home studios, during Santa Cruz’s Open Studio weekend, coming up in a few days.  We also have a local black hole putting on quite the light show and speaking of light shows, NASA’s new ICON probe will be studying the upper reaches of our ionosphere, from where the Northern and Southern lights hail. Richard gives us another update on the latest at Disneyland and ends the show with his rendition of Monty Python’s Galaxy Song.  Enjoy!

L-R Dr.Mrs. Future, Greg Panos, Richard Cray

Interview - Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg on his new film, 'Fantastic Fungi.'

Listen Now to filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg on Fantastic Fungi

Louie Schwartzberg is an American producer, director and cinematographer whose notable career spans more than three decades providing breathtaking imagery for feature films, television shows, documentaries and commercials.He is a visual artist breaking barriers, connecting with audiences, and telling stories that celebrate life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature, people and places.

His theatrical releases include the 3D IMAX film “Mysteries of the Unseen World” with National Geographic, “Moving Art” on Netflix, and “Wings of Life,” a feature-length documentary for Disneynature, narrated by Meryl Streep. 

His latest creation is a production 13 years in the making, a major documentary on the mysteries of mushrooms. The film looks at many aspects of the fungal universe, such as mycelial networks — fungi’s extensive  fibrous underground strands likened to “an underground internet” that connects all manner of lifeforms in the soil.

We speak with him about the film, the messages he wishes to convey to us, his collaboration with Paul Stamets, mushroom guru, and what’s next. Enjoy!