Parent Previews: Insurgent

Guest: Gabe Bowen, professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Utah  According to new research, today’s human-caused global warming is much like the atmospheric conditions on Earth 56 million years ago.

Guest: John Mullins, Professor of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at London Business School, and author of the new book, The Customer-Funded Business 

Guest: Barbara Ortiz Howard, founder of Women on 20s, an organization that seeks to get an image of a notable woman on the front of our 20-dollar bills  “Women on 20s” is campaigning to replace Andrew Jackson on the 20-dollar bill with a woman.

Guest: Rodger Kram, Professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder  Ponce de Leon was looking for a fountain to deliver eternal youth, but perhaps he ought to have been looking at his feet.  A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE says running regularly can keep your body using energy efficiently. So, you could theoretically have the body of a 70 year old and the energy efficiency of a 20-year-old.

Guests: Daniel Smalley, professor in BYU’s department of electrical and computer engineering  David Brown, BYU Technology Transfer office  There’s 3D and virtual reality, but my next guest has set his sights a tad higher – Daniel Smalley is out to build the holodeck. Remember the holodeck from Star Trek? An empty room that could be converted in any holographic environment the user wanted – so lifelike it often became the user’s reality?