Politics, Easy-to-Build Wheelchair, Dealing with Let Downs

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 4, Episode 77

Apr 20, 2015 1:00 pm
2:18:44 mins

Joe Cannon: News and Politics (11:13) Joe Cannon, CEO of Fuel Freedom Foundation, former Chairman of the Utah Republican Party, past assistant administrator in the US EPA, and editor of the Deseret News. Joe talks current political news including Hillary Clinton declaring for her presidential run and who could challenge her. Easy-To-Build Wheelchairs (1:01:32) Led by Dr. Mark Colton, 5 Undergraduate BYU Engineering Students have just completed a Capstone project that resulted in a light-weight, more affordable, do-it-yourself wheelchair. It’s adjustable, it’s mobile and it costs under $500. Dr. Mark Colton received his PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Utah, with an emphasis on haptic interfaces. While completing his PhD, he served as a Visiting Instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University. Dealing With a Let Down (1:47:21) F. Diane Barth, L.C.S.W., is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City where she works with adults and adolescents, individuals and families. She has a B.A. and an M.S.W. from Columbia University and graduated as a certified psychoanalyst from the Psychoanalytic Institute of the Postgraduate Center. She wrote the book Daydreaming: Unlock the Creative Power of Your Mind. She talks about how to deal with the ups and downs of life.

Episode Segments

Episode Segments

Joe Cannon: News and Politics

50m

Joe Cannon, CEO of Fuel Freedom Foundation, former Chairman of the Utah Republican Party, past assistant administrator in the US EPA, and editor of the Deseret News. Joe talks current political news including Hillary Clinton declaring for her presidential run and who could challenge her.

Easy-To-Build Wheelchairs

46m

Led by Dr. Mark Colton, 5 Undergraduate BYU Engineering Students have just completed a Capstone project that resulted in a light-weight, more affordable, do-it-yourself wheelchair. It’s adjustable, it’s mobile and it costs under $500. Dr. Mark Colton received his PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Utah, with an emphasis on haptic interfaces. While completing his PhD, he served as a Visiting Instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University.

Dealing With a Let Down

31m

F. Diane Barth, L.C.S.W., is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City where she works with adults and adolescents, individuals and families. She has a B.A. and an M.S.W. from Columbia University and graduated as a certified psychoanalyst from the Psychoanalytic Institute of the Postgraduate Center. She wrote the book Daydreaming: Unlock the Creative Power of Your Mind. She talks about how to deal with the ups and downs of life.