Rising Sea Levels

Guest: Anita Gupta, PharmD, Professor of Pain Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine and Co-chair of the American Society of Anesthesiology’s task force on prescription opioid abuse  Prescription drug abuse is such a big problem that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just issued new guidelines urging primary care doctors to avoid prescribing painkillers called opioids for patients with chronic pain.

Guest: Valter Longo, PhD, Professor of Biological Science at the University of Southern California  Folklore is full of stories of magic potions that magically restore youth. While the magic elixir remains elusive, new research suggests that there may be a way to trigger your body’s own processes to regenerate new, healthy cells and achieve measurable health improvements—maybe even extend your life. There’s no drinking of magic potions involved—in fact, we’re talking about quite the opposite: fasting.

Guest: Carlianne Patrick, PhD, Economist at Georgia State University  For the past decade, entrepreneurial growth has been leveling out in the US. But one demographic seems to be immune to the plateau – single women.

Guest: Rod Gustafson, Film Reviewer at ParentPreviews.com  We discuss the films Miracles and Divergent.

Guests: Randy Beard, PhD, Professor of Electrical Engineering at BYU; Dave Brown, from BYU’s Technology Transfer Office Remote-control flying robots, unmanned aerial vehicles, drones. Whatever you want to call them, they are huge among hobbyists and for commercial uses like videography or scientific data collection. We know they’re a big part of the current U.S. military strategy, too. Which is all just to say that one of the hottest research areas for engineering right now is honing the capabilities of drones.