Supermarket Strike Update; What is the California FAIR Plan?; Caltech Edition; Entanglement
Supermarket Strike Update
Host Larry Mantle speaks with David Greenberg, reporter for the Los Angeles Business Journal, about the latest news in the supermarket strike. Larry also speaks with Christopher David Ruiz Cameron, Associate Dean, Director of Externships and Professor of Law, at Southwestern University School of Law, about the MTA strike.
What is the California FAIR Plan?
In the aftermath of the Southern California fires, there is ongoing discussion about homeowners' fire insurance coverage. Some regions of the Southland are covered by an alternative fire insurance plan called the California FAIR Plan. Larry talks with their spokesman about the plan, why it was created, and how it fits into the present fire insurance coverage picture. Host Larry Mantle speaks with Mike Harris, VP of Public Affairs, spokesman for the California FAIR Plan.
Caltech Edition
Host Larry Mantle speaks with David Van Gogh, project manager of Team Caltech, The California Institute of Technology's entry car for the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) unmanned vehicle challenge. Caltech is one of approximately twenty-five institutions that will create an unmanned car to race from Barstow to Las Vegas in March 2004. Also, Larry Mantle will go where no man has gone before--to the Kuiper Belt--to talk about Quoarars, before he checks in on the weather on Saturn's moon, Titan.
Entanglement
How can two subatomic particles, separated by time and space, be linked and experience the same changes? This is called "entanglement," a phenomenon in science whereby if something happens to one particle, the same thing happens to the other particle, even if it is millions of miles away. If that's not enough to cause wonder, the changes occur faster than the speed of light! Does this mean that entanglement disproves Einstein's Relativity Theory? How can to things be so connected, yet be so far apart? Science writer Amir Aczel joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss entanglement and its applications in everyday life. His new book is called Entanglement: The Unlikely Story of How Scientists, Mathematicians, and Philosophers Proved Einstein's Spookiest Theor.y (Plume Book)