David Quammen

Today on Cool Science Radio, hosts John Wells and Lynn Ware Peek's guests include:(0:55 ) Bestselling science writer David Quammen, one of the most engaging writers of our time. His new book is Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus.(27:04) Then NYU Professor Michael Mehta Webster who has some good news about the earth for a change! But we humans do have some work to do to create The Rescue Effect: The Key To Saving Life On Earth.

Bestselling science writer David Quammen, one of the most engaging writers of our time is the guest in this episode of Cool Science Radio. John and Lynn speak with him about his new book, "Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus."

David Quammen, author of 2012’s book Spillover that predicted in uncanny detail the 2019 Covid pandemic, joins Cool Science Radio today. Quammen’s opening paragraph written in 2012 told us what scientists believed could be coming, and 7 years later, it came. Since its emergence in 2019, 6 million human lives have been lost around the world.These past 2 years David has been hard at work interviewing 94 virologists and infectious-disease experts about the SARS-CoV-2 virus, its origins, evolution, and journey through the human population.

On today's Cool Science Radio, John and Lynn's guests include: (01:18) David Quammen, author of 2012’s book Spillover that predicted in detail the 2019 Covid pandemic. These past 2 years David has been hard at work interviewing 94 virologists and infectious-disease experts about the SARS-CoV-2 virus, its origins, evolution, and journey through the human population. Then, (29:18) Nicole Yunger Halpern who has written Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow. Halpern re-envisions the steam engine and the laws of thermodynamics from the 1880s Industrial Revolution through the lens of today's quantum information revolution.

David Quammen joins Lynn and John on Cool Science Radio this week. Quammen is an author and journalist whose books include The Song of the Dodo, The…

Today's Thanksgiving Cool Science Radio show features a few interviews that you might have missed. John Wells is in Boston for Thanksgiving and Lynn is in…

Science writer David Quammen joins the show. His new book is called The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. Quammen's book untangles the theory…