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Cool Science Radio July 30, 2015

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Johns first guest this morning was Pierre   Sokolsky who is the distinguished professor of physics and astronomy from the   University of Utah. Physicists plan a $6.4 million expansion of the $25 million             Telescope Array Observatory in Utah so they can zero in on a “hotspot” that    seems to be a source of the most powerful particles in the universe:    ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays.

Johns 2nd guest was Tom Clynes, author of The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star. By the age of nine, Taylor Wilson had mastered the science of rocket propulsion. At eleven, his grandmother’s cancer diagnosis drove him to investigate new ways to produce medical isotopes. And by the age of fourteen, Wilson had built a 500-million-degree reactor and become the    youngest person in history to achieve nuclear fusion.

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