Explorations – December 20, 2005
Michio Kaku is traveling with a film crew that is covering his series on time. Pre recorded interviews will be played. Special Guest, Chris Mooney, author of â
Tuesdays: 2PM Pacific Time
An hour long radio program on science, technology, politics, and the environment. Topics covered include black holes, time travel, higher dimensions, string theory, wormholes, search for extra-terrestial life, dark matter and dark energy, the future of space travel, genetic engineering, the aging process, the future of medicine, the human body shop, artificial intelligence, the future of computers and robots, as well as topics from science fiction. Hosted by Michio Kaku.
Michio Kaku is traveling with a film crew that is covering his series on time. Pre recorded interviews will be played. Special Guest, Chris Mooney, author of â
NASA, after Jan. 11, intends to send 24 pounds of plutonium to Pluto. Bush administration is pushing nuclear energy. 2006 is the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Special guest Mary Mycio, author of â
Bird flu continues to spread throughout Asia, and now Europe. Seeing 1,000,000 years into the earth’s climate. New cancer detection method found. Set back in stem cell research. Japanese probe lands on asteroid.
Environmental Collapse. Special Guests Dr. Richard Heinberg, author of Powerdown, speaks of what happens when the greenhouse effect kicks in and oil runs out, leading to total collapse. Eric Assadorian of the World Watch Institute shares his thoughts.
George Johnson, of the NY Times, author of "Miss Leavitt’s Stars", about the woman whose great discovery was not appreciated by fellow astronomers because she was a woman. Micheal Lemonick of Time magazine talks about Echoes from the Big Bang, the latest in cosmology.
Origin of the Universe. Special Guest Dr. Simon Singh, author of The Big Bang. Also, students from Chalfonts Community College outside London will be asking questions about Michioâ
Dr. Seth Shostack, director of the SETI Institute, speaks about the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Inventor Ray Kurzweil speaks about r obots being smarter than humans. One of Americaâ
Bird flu. Is the high price of oil beginning the process of it running out soon? Gretchen Reynolds, writer for the New York Times, assesses the global danger posed by bird flu. Guest Thomas Mast, author of Over a Barrel, claims we will soon begin running out of oil, with disastrous consequences. Dr. Kaku is … Continued
Michio visits Switzerland to see Albert Einsteinâ
Michio is off. In his absence, a video documentary entitled â