Lynn Ware Peek
Producer/ Co-HostLynn Ware Peek is a longtime voice of Park City, known for her insightful storytelling, science journalism, and community engagement. She joined KPCW in 2008, launching the beloved series Tales from the Wasatch Back, and later served as the station’s Park City beat reporter. Today, she co-hosts and produces two of KPCW’s flagship public affairs shows: The Mountain Life, focused on health and lifestyle, and Cool Science Radio, which brings cutting-edge science and technology to a broad audience.
Beyond broadcasting, Lynn held two distinct roles at Park City Municipal from 2016 to 2022, as a community engagement liaison and as a councilor on the Park City Council from 2018 to 2020. A passionate outdoorswoman, she and her husband Bob have made Park City home for decades, embracing the mountain lifestyle while working to strengthen community ties in the place they met and raised their two sons.
Whether on the airwaves or in civic life, Lynn is committed to making science accessible, storytelling personal, and community feel like home.
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Jeffrey Cole, founding director of the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg, explores how technological change reshapes society, why established institutions can be caught off guard and what decades of internet research reveal about America's changing relationship with technology.Then, Carleton University biologists Jennifer Bruin and Myriam Hoyeck discuss new research finding persistent environmental pollutants in the human pancreas and explore how these chemicals may affect insulin secretion and metabolic health. -
Jeffrey Cole, founding director of the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg, explores how technological change reshapes society, why established institutions can be caught off guard and what decades of internet research reveal about America's changing relationship with technology. -
Dr. Cindra Kamphoff reveals that learning to act with confidence, even when self-doubt shows up, can change how you perform and live.Then, Dr. Annie Peterson explores a more personalized approach to women’s health, with evidence-based care that gives women more time, context and partnership—especially through menopause and beyond. -
Dr. Cindra Kamphoff reveals that learning to act with confidence, even when self-doubt shows up, can change how you perform and live. -
Caltech physicist and engineer Gabriele Vajente explains how LIGO detects gravitational waves, what we've learned from black hole collisions and neutron stars, and what future observations could reveal.Then, Dr. Alexander Mossbrucker discusses how bioacoustics, artificial intelligence and digital monitoring tools are helping conservationists track endangered wildlife.
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Caltech physicist and engineer Gabriele Vajente explains how LIGO detects the faint ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves. He explores the engineering behind the world's most sensitive measuring instruments, what we've learned from black hole collisions and neutron stars, and what future observations could reveal. -
Dr. Annie Peterson explores a more personalized approach to women’s health, with evidence-based care that gives women more time, context and partnership—especially through menopause and beyond. -
Colin Domnauer, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Utah, discusses his research into a newly identified species of psychoactive mushroom rumored to trigger vivid hallucinations of little people, referred to as “Lilliputian Hallucinations.”Then, MIT engineer Amos Winter discusses how to design affordable, high-performance products that can succeed in different global markets.
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University of Utah doctoral student Colin Domnauer discusses new research linking reports of vivid “tiny people” hallucinations to a single mushroom species — and what the discovery could reveal about an unidentified hallucinogenic compound. -
First, we’ll speak with Deborah Jennings, a Park City newcomer trading a forty-year career in education for a personal concierge business and a popular new library speaking series. Then, as National Recovery Month begins, Dr. Frank Spinelli, author of "The Shame Compass" joins us to talk about relapse, shame, and moving forward without judgment.
