How Is The Economy Affecting You?; Stephen Wolfram; The Columbia Shuttle Disaster
How Is The Economy Affecting You?
According to the federal Commerce Department the national economy has slowed to a snail's pace. What's happening to the local economy, and how is the current slow-down affecting you? Larry Mantle checks in with UCLA economist Chris Thornberg and Jack Kyser, Chief Economist at the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, and opens up the phones to hear from you. Are you nervous about the economy? Have you been laid off or suffered a pay cut? Have you changed your spending habits or scaled down vacation plans?
Stephen Wolfram
Host Larry Mantle talks with physicist and computer scientist Stephen Wolfram about his fascinating, and highly regarded new book, A New Kind of Sciencein which he explains how complex workings of the universe can be explained and predicted by simple, mathematical rules.
The Columbia Shuttle Disaster
Host Larry Mantle discusses the latest news in the Columbia Shuttle disaster and how the space program will move forward from here with Anthony Beasley, Ph.D., Project Manager, Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy-"CARMA," at Owens Valley Observatory, Caltech, and the California astronomer that NASA has referred to in its press conferences as having observed Columbia as it moved over California, and Paul Dimotakis, Ph.D., Northrop Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Applied Physics at Caltech.