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A Real Martian – Ph.D. Candidate, NASA Researcher Explores Water on Mars

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_151010A_H1.mp3 Show #105 Hour 1 | October 10, 2015 | The impact of the discovery of water on Mars may not be known for decades, but astrobiologist Mary Beth Wilhelm has been interested in Mars since her teens. She’s the co-author of the report confirming water’s presence on the red planet. Guests: Mary Beth Wilhelm is currently a Civil Servant in the Planetary Science Branch at NASA Ames Research Center, a PhD Candidate at Georgia Tech and am a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. Permalink for this podcast here....

The Tangled Influence of Wine in California – Tales of Murder, Greed, and Arson

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_151010A_H2.mp3 Show #105 Hour 2 | October 10, 2015 | Author Frances Dinkelspiel discusses her personal connection to California’s wine industry, and the shocking case of arson that ruined lives, businesses, and cost millions. Guests: Frances Dinkelspiel is is an award-winning author and journalist. The San Francisco Chronicle and the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association both named it a Best Book of the Year. Towers of Gold was also a finalist for the Northern California Book Awards. A graduate of Stanford University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Frances started her reporting career at the Syracuse Newspapers in upstate New York and later moved to the San Jose Mercury News. Permalink for this podcast here....

Exploring the Unexplored – DARPA’s Science and Research

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_151003A_H1.mp3 Show #104 Hour 1 | October 3, 2015 | The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos in The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency. Guests: Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and bestselling author who writes about war, weapons, U.S. national security and government secrecy. Her previous non-fiction bestsellers, Area 51 and Operation PAPERCLIP, have both been optioned for television series. Permalink for this podcast here....

A Century Old Heroine and Sheriff

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_151003A_H2.mp3 Show #104 Hour 2 | October 3, 2015 | From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation's first female deputy sheriffs, Girl Waits With Gun. Guests: Amy Stewart is the award-winning author of six books, including the bestsellers The Drunken Botanist and Wicked Plants. She and her husband live in Eureka, California, where they own a bookstore called Eureka Books. Permalink for this podcast here....

The Dangers of Overparenting

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150926A_H1.mp3 Show #103 Hour 1 | September 26, 2015 | Julie Lythcott-Haims draws on research, on conversations with admissions officers, educators, and employers, and on her own insights as a mother and as a student dean to highlight the ways in which overparenting harms children, their stressed-out parents, and society at large in her book How to Raise An Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success. Guests: Julie Lythcott-Haims served as Dean of Freshmen and Undergraduate Advising for over a decade at Stanford University, where she received the Dinkelspiel Award for her contributions to the undergraduate experience. A mother of two teenagers, she has spoken and written widely on the phenomenon of helicopter parenting, and her work has appeared on TEDx talks and in "Forbes" and the "Chicago Tribune". She is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at California College of the Arts in San Francisco Permalink for this podcast here....

Science in the Kitchen

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150926A_H2.mp3 Show #103 Hour 2 | September 26, 2015 | Chef, writer, and kitchen scientist J. Kenji Lopez-Alt dispels traditional kitchen cooking myths while discussing his new book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science. Guests: J. Kenji López-Alt is the managing culinary director of Serious Eats, author of the James Beard Award-nominated column The Food Lab and a columnist for Cooking Light. He lives in San Mateo, California with his wife Adriana and two dogs, Jamón and Shabu. His first book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science is nearly 1,000 pages and has over 300 foolproof recipes. It's a grand tour of the science of cooking explored through popular American dishes, illustrated in full color with thousands of photographs, charts, graphs, and do-at-home experiments. Permalink for this podcast here....

Artificial Intelligence’s Impact on Our Future

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150919A_H1.mp3 Show #102 Hour 1 | September 19, 2015 | Serial entrepreneur, futurist, and author Jerry Kaplan explores the positive possibilities and societal challenges of the pending Artificial Intelligence Age in Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Guests: Jerry Kaplan is widely known in the computer industry as a serial entrepreneur, technical innovator, author, and futurist. Kaplan may be best know for his key role in defining the tablet computer industry as founder of GO Corporation in 1987. Two decades before the iPad, Kaplan foresaw that computers could take a different form than the then-ubiquitous desktop PCs and he envisioned a new kind of computer that would be used like a ‘tablet of paper’, with a touch-sensitive screen. Many of GO’s concepts were ultimately incorporated into other early portable computers such as the Palm Pilot, The Apple Newton, and most recently, IOS products like Apple’s iPad. In 1994 Kaplan wrote a best-selling non-fiction...

Powerful and Global: Female Faces of Courage

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150919A_H2.mp3 Show #102 Hour 2 | September 19, 2015 | Commercial photographer Mark Tuschman has traveled around the world photographing and documenting women, girls, and families for Faces of Courage: Intimate Portraits of Women on the Edge. Guests: Mark Tuschman has been a freelance photographer for over 35 years. He has devoted much of the past decade to documenting global health challenges and women’s human rights issues, in collaboration with UN agencies, socially conscious corporations, foundations, and NGOs. His work has been featured at many international events, including at the Women Deliver Conference in 2013, and at the Carter Center’s Human Rights Defenders Forum in 2015. The Global Health Council named Mark Photographer of the Year in 2010, and his images won the Grand Prize in a worldwide photo competition sponsored by the Social Documentary Network and Management Sciences for Health. Mark lives with his wife, Jana, in Menlo Park, California. Permalink for this podcast here....

Is Football Morally and Ethically Corrupt?

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150912A_H1.mp3 Show #101 Hour 1 | September 12, 2015 | Former fan Steve Almond received so much vociferous feedback on his book Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto, he's released a new edition with an updated forward. Guests: Steve Almond spent seven years as a newspaper reporter in Texas and Florida before writing his first book, the story collection My Life in Heavy Metal. His non-fiction book, Candyfreak, was a New York Times Bestseller. His short fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies, and his most recent collection, God Bless America, won the Paterson Prize for Fiction. Almond writes commentary and journalism regularly for The New York Times Magazine and The Boston Globe. A former sports reporter and play-by-play man, Almond lives outside Boston with his wife and three children. Permalink for this podcast here....

Small Business, Land Use, the Federal Government, and Oysters

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150912A_H2.mp3 Show #101 Hour 2 | September 12, 2015 | Summer Brennan dissects the polarization of her home town in Marin County, California over the battle of a local ranching family to run their newly acquired Oyster Farm near a protected Wilderness Area. Guests: Summer Brennan was born to parents living in a houseboat on the San Francisco Bay. She has written for magazines and newspapers throughout the country and works regularly with the United Nations in New York on issues related to decolonization, disarmament, human rights and the environment. As an undergraduate at Bennington College she studied poetry with Mary Oliver. Later she took her master's from the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences where her work focused on media, journalism and the Middle East. The Oyster War is her first book. Permalink for this podcast here....