Cool Science Radio - July 27, 2017

Lynn Ware Peek and guest co-host Alex Butwinski talk about the food science behind energy bars with industry professionals Emily Karz of ProBar and Drew Braithwaite of Chapul.Then best-selling author Ben Mezrich joins us to chat about his new bookWoolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures. Mezrich wrote, among others, the book The Accidental Billionaires which became the movie The Social Network, about the founding of Facebook. This book on the science behind the revival of the Wooly Mammoth is just as intriguing, we promise.