Marshall Brain, Director, Engineering Entrepreneurs Program, NCSU; Founder, HowStuffWorks.com (Pt 2)

Summary: With a name like Marshall Brain, there’s quite an expectation to live up to—but for this guy, director of the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at NC State, he makes being a "brain"-iac look easy. For one, he’s relentlessly curious about everything. As the founder of HowStuffWorks.com, Marshall set out to explain to people how stuff works – literally. And he’s extended that curiosity and that easy, straightforward sense of information-sharing beyond his one-time hobby. He’s the former host of Nat Geo’s “Factory Floor with Marshall Brain,” the author of more than 20 books, and a frequent guest on CNN, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” MSNBC, “Good Morning America” and more. As you might imagine, it’s hard to have a boring – or short! – conversation with Marshall, so we’re breaking it into two parts. In part two, we pick up in a place that may seem a little remote from North Carolina - Mars. As you listen, we think you'll see how thinking a little bit about Mars can help us think differently about our state's rural-urban divide, about early childhood education, and about the challenges and opportunities of automation. Listen to part one at bit.ly/IEIFiF141!