Space Poop

Space Poop

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 514 , Segment 2

Episode: Grammar Rules, Space Poop, Mercies in Disguise

  • Mar 21, 2017 11:00 pm
  • 21:34 mins

Guest: Thatcher Cardon, Air Force Colonel, Flight Surgeon, BYU Alum, Winner of NASA’s Space Poop Challenge Sometimes NASA can be a bit wonky with its acronyms and scientific terms, but it minced no mincing words in naming its recent “Space Poop Challenge.” That’s the official name. The media had a bonanza with the potty puns covering it. But this is serious business. As NASA plans to send astronauts farther and farther into space, they need to plan for emergency situations that would require the crew to stay in their pressurized space suits for days on end. And how are astronauts going to do their business when they can’t get out of the suit?

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Mercies in Disguise

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Guest: Gina Kolata, New York Times Science and Medicine Reporter, author of “Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family’s Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them” If a blood test could tell you that you would probably die of an incurable disease, would you get the test? Amanda Baxley faced that dilemma after watching her father, uncle, and grandfather succumb to a rare and fatal condition known as Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker \[GSS], which has symptoms similar to Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.  As Amanda pondered getting the blood test to see if she, too, had the gene for GSS, some in her family begged her not to. Just think of the Pandora’s box such knowledge could unlock for a family with deep religious beliefs. . .

Guest: Gina Kolata, New York Times Science and Medicine Reporter, author of “Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family’s Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them” If a blood test could tell you that you would probably die of an incurable disease, would you get the test? Amanda Baxley faced that dilemma after watching her father, uncle, and grandfather succumb to a rare and fatal condition known as Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker \[GSS], which has symptoms similar to Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.  As Amanda pondered getting the blood test to see if she, too, had the gene for GSS, some in her family begged her not to. Just think of the Pandora’s box such knowledge could unlock for a family with deep religious beliefs. . .