Cracking the Boy Code, The Creative Curve, Incredibles 2

Guest: Quinn Mecham, PhD, Professor of Political Science, BYU Each month Quinn Mecham joins us to recap three events happening internationally that are worth a closer look. Here we discuss President Trump’s involvement in the G7 summit in Canada and the US-North Korea summit in Singapore, Columbia’s presidential election, and the upcoming Turkish elections.

Guest: Adam Cox, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, and Author, "Cracking the Boy Code" Somewhere between the ages of 10 and 13, your energetic, playful son may morph into a sullen adolescent who rarely makes eye contact and who grunts as a primary form of communication. Stumped, parents often vacillate between bribing and threatening to motive their sons to do something meaningful, or at least TALK to the family again. Adam Cox has spent decades talking with boys in and out of therapy, and he helps parents navigate the minefields of the middle school and teen years with their sons.

Guest: Allen Gannett, Founder and CEO of TrackMaven, Author of “The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea at the Right Time” In 1990, J. K. Rowling was sitting on a train from Manchester to London, and she said that “the idea for Harry Potter fell into \[her] head.” Fell into her head. If you dream of being a published writer, those might be discouraging words to hear. How many of us have gotten a brainstorm like the wizarding world of Harry Potter? And so, we often quit and give up on our creative dreams—but we shouldn’t.

Guest: Rod Gustafson, Film Reviewer at ParentPreviews.com It was an incredible weekend for Disney-Pixar’s Incredibles 2, breaking the ticket sales record for the best animated film opening of all time and best debut for a PG-rated film. The sequel starts with the family of superheroes forced to hide their powers because their attempts to thwart evil have failed. People see superheroes as a menace to society. But it's time for the Supers to come out of the shadows.

Guest: Mike Alder, Director of BYU Technology Transfer Office; Brian Woodfield, PhD, Professor of Chemistry, BYU Throughout the ages, alchemists have sought to turn common, inexpensive metals into precious gold. They often turned to magic and mysticism but never did manage to turn iron into gold. Chemists at BYU are doing a form of alchemy involving valuable petroleum products like diesel fuel and lubricants. Typically, you’d need a barrel of oil drilled out of the earth to make that stuff. But BYU chemist Brian Woodfield can make diesel fuel or paraffin wax out of cow manure and human sewage. No petroleum required. More information about technology developed at BYU is available at techtransfer.byu.edu.