CliniSpace is an online, multiuser virtual hospital where real doctors and nurses can hone their skills on virtual patients. The emphasis is on thinking and acting quickly and accurately in high pressure situations, such as emergency room cases or mass casualty incidents. If the right actions are not taken, the virtual patients will die.

The Tech Museum is located in San Jose, CA in the heart of Silicon Valley. It was originally created with help from some of Silicon Valley's leading luminaries, such as William Hewlett and David Packard, and it strives to capture the 'Spirit of Silicon Valley', with exhibits and programs for people of all ages that encourage scientific exploration and innovative thinking. This episode contains on location footage from the Tech , and features interviews with key Tech employees including Alana...

This episode's topic is 'New Wellness Tools', that is, new methods of information sharing between doctors, patients and health providers to enable better diagnosis and treatment of all kinds of disease, plus better disease prevention methods. Host Martin Wasserman interviews two guests.

different angles, including the science of earth movements, advances in predicting quakes, how to prepare for an earthquake, and improving the response to quakes. Host Martin Wasserman interviews two guests.

An interview with prominent sociobiologist and futurist Rebecca Costa (www.rebeccacosta.com) , author of the much acclaimed book 'The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction'. Praised by people such as Richard Branson, Donald Trump, former Senator Bill Bradley, scientist James Watson of Watson and Crick DNA fame and many others, the book claims that the world is getting much too complex, and obsolete thinking habits are preventing us from dealing properly with the complexity....

An examination of electric car maker Tesla Motors. Based in Palo Alto, CA, Tesla was founded by Elon Musk, who is also the founder of SpaceX, which builds rocket ships under contract to NASA. Tesla has leading edge battery technology and ample funding, and is the first automaker to have an initial public stock offering since Ford did it in 1956. The studio guests are two Tesla employees, engineering manager Ali Javidan who discusses Tesla's technology and its plans for the future, and service...

This episode features a discussion about the recent TEDwomen conference in Palo Alto, CA, part of the larger TED movement (www.TED.com) and hosted by independent TED group TEDxBayArea (www.TEDxBayArea.com). TED groups sponsor meetings and discussions, both in person and online, about 'ideas worth spreading'. The TEDwomen conference and its array of speakers dealt mostly with social networking and community building, and finding ways of advancing women in business.

Host Martin Wasserman discusses the latest developments in human-computer interaction with his very knowledgeable guests.

This episode features a look at some of the graphic visualization tools that are enhancing productivity in Silicon Valley and other places. These tools are used to ensure that people who attend a business meeting, for example, will have a common visualization of what was discussed and what was agreed to, and will share a similar 'big picture' of the long term issues.

In the past few years, science has made great strides in understanding the basic workings of life. This has given us some powerful new medical tools, but also confronted us with some thorny ethical issues. In this episode, we'll examine these issues with Professor David Magnus.

A look at the digital home of the future, whose smart systems will be easily controllable by internet technology. The new digital home will monitor your health, conserve energy, allow you to control its operations from afar, and provide an endless stream of information, communication and entertainment. There are two guests on the show. Rich Green is President of Rich Green, Ink, which designs high end audio visual and other electronic systems for clients such as Apple's Steve Jobs, Oracle's...

A look at America's space program, featuring two leading scientists from NASA's Ames Research Center. William Borucki is chief scientist for the Kepler Mission, which is now orbiting the Sun looking for Earth-like planets in other solar systems, and Anthony Colaprete is chief scientist for the LCROSS Project, which recently located water on the Moon.

Our society is highly dependent on technology, and maintaining this technology requires a very well educated workforce, especially in math and science. But math education has barely changed in the past several centuries. In this episode, host Martin Wasserman examines some of the new approaches to math education with his three guests.

A look at the journalism program at Silicon Valley's Palo Alto High School, which is one of the largest and most innovative high school journalism programs in the country, where students publish their own high quality magazines, newspapers, tv shows, and internet sites.

A look at Singularity University, a Google-sponsored school located at NASA's Ames Research Center in Sunnyvale, CA. Singularity U is based on the idea that technology is advancing at an exponential rate, and it's necessary to train a cadre of leaders who can steer this technology in the right direction, so it can be used to solve humanity's problems without creating more and bigger problems in the process.

Health 2.0, an emerging approach to health care that uses Internet technology and social networking software to make patients better informed about their health conditions and more active participants in their own health care, is discussed.

A discussion of nanotechnology, including the latest scientific developments, practical applications of this new science, the environmental impact of nanotech, and the societal and ethical considerations. Includes videos showing possible uses of nanotech.

A look at the 'Semantic Web', which many people are calling the next major step in the evolution of the World Wide Web, making the Web much more intelligent and much more responsive to user needs than it is today.

The Internet has almost overnight made old models of journalism obsolete. In this episode, we look at the future of journalism in light of the new electronic communications. The guests are David Nordfors (www.nordfors.com), director of the Center for Innovation Journalism at Stanford University, and Tony Deifell (www.thebigthaw.com), director of Q Media Labs, which studies the relationship between business, media and society, and author of 'The Big Thaw', a major report on the future of...

A look at human genome research from several perspectives. Professor Gavin Sherlock of the Genetics Deparment of Stanford Medical School discusses the latest scientific advances in genetics, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jack Porter discusses the practical applications of genome science, and Biology Professor Marc Feldman, director of the Human Genome Diversity Project at Stanford, discusses the moral and ethical implications of genome research. Also featuring a special guest appearance by...

A look at the US-China Green Energy Council, a consortium of American and Chinese scientists, businessmen and academics who seek to foster cooperation between the US and China on ways of producing non-polluting energy. Host Martin Wasserman interviews UCGEC board members Jim Caldwell and Cliff Nakayama.