Podcast: Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award Winners
Glenn and I attended the Popular Mechanics 
Breakthrough Conference in New York this month and were lucky enough to catch up with some of the winners for interviews. We talked with Amory B. Lovins, a visionary of radical energy efficiency who talked with us about what advice he would give the current crop of presidential candidates about energy efficiency. We also talked with Shawn Frayne, an inventor whose work has focused on water disinfection, "green" packaging, cleaner cooking fuels and wind energy. Frayne received a 2007 Breakthrough award for inventing the Windbelt, which takes advantage of aerostatic flutter to produce low-cost electricity.
Finally, we talked with Shawn Carlson, a physicist, science writer, educator and recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship for his innovative approaches to science education. He talks about why 40% of the PHDs in the sciences and engineering are now foreign born and how we can help our kids get excited about math and science in the schools. He is the founder of Labrats.org, a terrific website for kids who are interested in science. I like their motto: "Data over Dogma."
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Breakthrough Conference in New York this month and were lucky enough to catch up with some of the winners for interviews. We talked with Amory B. Lovins, a visionary of radical energy efficiency who talked with us about what advice he would give the current crop of presidential candidates about energy efficiency. We also talked with Shawn Frayne, an inventor whose work has focused on water disinfection, "green" packaging, cleaner cooking fuels and wind energy. Frayne received a 2007 Breakthrough award for inventing the Windbelt, which takes advantage of aerostatic flutter to produce low-cost electricity. Finally, we talked with Shawn Carlson, a physicist, science writer, educator and recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship for his innovative approaches to science education. He talks about why 40% of the PHDs in the sciences and engineering are now foreign born and how we can help our kids get excited about math and science in the schools. He is the founder of Labrats.org, a terrific website for kids who are interested in science. I like their motto: "Data over Dogma."
You can listen directly -- no downloading needed -- by going here and clicking on the gray Flash player. You can download the entire file and listen at your leisure by clicking right here, and you can get a lo-fi version suitable for dialup by going here and selecting lo-fi. Plus, you can always get a free subscription via iTunes -- and why wouldn't you, really?
Visit our show archives for past episodes and updates at GlennandHelenShow.com. Music is by Mobius Dick.
This podcast is brought to you by Volvo Automobiles. Buy a Volvo today and tell them it's all because of the Glenn and Helen Show!
posted by Helen at 9:00 PM
6 Comments:
Aerostatic flutter... the places I could go with that one....
ha ha advice to presidential candidates!
@interesting health articles
Meet Thomas Hager, author of "Demon Under the Microscope" a fascinating journey through history about the birth of the pharmaceutical industry and the development of the antibiotic known as sulfa and how it saved lives at Pearl Harbor. His website echoes the themes in your post and those of Labrats.org
Thomas Hager writes on his webpage "I live in a college town. Like many college towns, mine is both enviably liveable and decidedly liberal. But even here, among a highly educated populace, I find that most people I talk with (outside of the university's scientists) have a hole in their understanding of modern culture: They know next to nothing about science. They do not know where or when it started. They do not know how it is done. They do not know who sets its priorities, or how it is paid for, or the full impact it has on our society."
I highly reccomend this book. If we are to conquer the new wave of antibiotic resistant MRSA staphylococci and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, we need more interest in drug discovery. This is a book that brings to life the hard work and lost lives that pushed scientists to develop drugs that killed microbes but not humans.
Raising the issue of science education is critical. Thanks for the podcast.
Paula Sundstrom,
Professor
Dartmouth Medical School
It's probably about 70% of Economics PHDs are foreigners.
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