Episodes – Page 19

Digital innovation and medicine in the Covid-19 pandemic

December 12, 2020 by

Llewellyn King and guests discuss digital innovation and medicine in the Covid-19 pandemic.

Guests: Linda Marban, CEO, Capricor Therapeutics; and Andres Carvallo, CEO, CMG Consulting and Professor of Innovation, Texas State University

Remembering Richard E. “Dick” Morley, giant in U.S. manufacturing

December 5, 2020 by

Llewellyn King and guests talk about Richard E. “Dick” Morley, the “Father of Automation” and the floppy disc.

Guests: George Markowsky, Professor of Computer Science, Missouri S&T; Patricia E. Moody, Co-author, “The Technology Machine”; Ken Ball, Retired Engineer

What the 2020 election means for energy and infrastructure

November 20, 2020 by

Llewellyn King and three energy consultants discuss the Biden administration’s potential impact on energy and infrastructure.

Guests: Jan Vrins,Partner, Global Energy, Sustainability & Infrastructure, Guidehouse; Karen Wilson,
Partner, Energy, Sustainability & Infrastructure, Guidehouse; Lisa Frantzis, Partner, Energy, Sustainability & Infrastructure, Guidehouse

Low-level radiation: A treatment that could be used for Covid-19, arthritis and Alzheimer’s

November 14, 2020 by

Llewellyn King and experts discuss the promise of low-level radiation as a treatment for Covid-19, arthritis and Alzheimer’s.

Guests: Dr. James S. Welch, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine; James Conca, Senior Scientist, UFA Ventures, Inc.; Jerry Cuttler, President, Cuttler & Associates Inc.

The Black Bourgeoisie: Lessons for the 21st century

October 30, 2020 by

John Sibley Butler, entrepreneur and University of Texas at Austin professor, discusses his inheritance as a member of the “Black Bourgeoisie.”

Literature’s influence on politics

October 16, 2020 by

Llewellyn King discusses the impact of literature on politics and culture with Philip Gould and Timothy Bewes, both Brown University professors of English.

America’s need for a new social contract.

October 10, 2020 by

Llewellyn King and guests SiriusXM Radio host Joe Madison “The Black Eagle,” and Creators Syndicate and CNN columnist Froma Harrop discuss the need for a new social contract.

How microgrids are changing electricity supply

October 3, 2020 by

Guests: Michelle Fay, Partner, Energy, Sustainability and Infrastructure, Guidehouse; and Peter Asmus, Research Director, Guidehouse Insights
Topic: How microgrids are changing electricity supply

A life in talk radio; Beirut’s port explosion, and the political crisis in Lebanon

September 25, 2020 by

Llewellyn King talks to Jim Bohannon, about talk radio hosting, and to Edward Gabriel, former U.S. ambassador to Morocco, about the Beirut explosion and the political crisis in Lebanon.

Innovation — How it happens and what inhibits it

September 18, 2020 by

Llewellyn King discusses how innovation happens in companies and what inhibits it with mobile telecommunications pioneer Morgan O’Brien and Jack Markell, former Delaware governor.

A Chainsaw Is the Woefully Wrong Tool for Government Reform

At the recent “Future of the Blue Economy” conference in Newport, Rhode Island, entrepreneurs and their investors were talking about breakthroughs, but the term they used — replacing “Sputnik moment” — was “SpaceX moment.” That was a salute to the extraordinary precision engineering that enables the booster stage of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket to reposition […]

The High Price of Crying Fraud!

Seminal is a strong word. It means that when an event is seminal, nothing will ever be the same again. Elon Musk and his marauding young minions will leave the United States damaged in ways that won’t be easily put right, toppling the country from the position it has held so long as the world’s pillar […]

Requiem for America’s Helping Hand in the World

I have seen the U.S. Agency for International Development in action — in Bolivia, Botswana, Pakistan and in Eastern Europe — and I can say that it is sometimes ragged and sometimes wasteful, but overall it is a great value for the money. It is the face of America in 100 countries and its work […]

How Not to Manage the Bureaucracy

The trouble with governing from myth rather than fact is that you break that which isn’t broken and end up with the very opposite of what you set out to achieve. The personnel decisions of the Trump administration are driven by the myth — repeated throughout the campaign and earlier in conservative circles — that […]