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The stuffy air in your house could be killing you! Find out how EZ Breathe can help you breathe easy with their home ventilation system. Then, find out how the Extreme Tech Challenge is helping great ideas like Bloom Technologies get off the ground. Segment 1: Breathe Easy Six out of every ten homes are hazardous to live in due to airborne pollutants. EZ Breathe President, Erika Lecroix, has made it her mission to improve the indoor air quality in homes all across America, and is here to tell us how! Segment 2: Ventilation is Key The most important tool in your arsenal in your fight against hazardous indoor air is ventilation! Erika Lecroix explains how Ez Breathe's stand alone unit provides an escape for all the nasty stuff in your building at the lowest level. Segment 3: Extreme Tech Challenge The Extreme Tech Challenge saw 1,200 companies enter for a chance to present on stage at next year's CES. MaiTai Global Co-Founder and Vice President, Bill Tai, explains how a stage at CES isn't the only reward, winners get publicity, infrastructure products from companies like IBM, and meet many interesting people that can help build their businesses. Segment 4: Extreme Ideas When Bill Tai was giving a speech at one of Australia's largest colleges he looked out in the crowd and thought: "Maybe somebody in this audience has the next hit product." From there grew the Extreme Tech Challenge, an event that helps accelerate someone's success if they were already going to be successful. Segment 5: Bloom Technology and Giroptic The winner of this year's Extreme Tech Challenge has already been selected! Bill Tai tells us about Bloom Technology, and their device that helps track the health of a baby in the womb; and runners up, Giroptic, an affordable 360 degree video recording solution. Segment 6: Sphero Bill Tai tells us about the 3rd place runner up in the Extreme Tech Challenge, Sphero, the company responsible for iPhone controlled robotic toys and BB-8 in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Also, find out how your tech idea could be the next big winner of the Extreme Tech Challenge.

Mosquitoes have been carriers of various diseases for a long time, at least until we got them under control for a while. Now they're back with a new threat! Dr. Cort Stoskopf explains how this Zika virus crisis came to the United States, and how we might fight it.

Zika has actually been around for decades, but was never thought to be consequential to humans. STATNews Infectious Disease and Public Health Reporter, Helen Branswell, describes how the disease is transmitted, what it does to unborn infants and their mothers, and what countries or states are at risk.

Is there any validity to the vaccination scare our current generation is facing? Dr. Cort Stoskopf says everything is risk assessment; are you more afraid of your kid dying from polio, or being autistic? One of these outcomes has a much higher chance!

It is said that bees are responsible are for every third bite of food we eat. $200 billion worth of crops per year are pollinated by bees, Pollinator Friendly Gardening Author Rhonda Fleming Hayes warns, so try to imagine a world without them, we'd be stuck with just wheat and corn!

Plant a flowery, herb filled garden this year in your yard and feed some bees, they'll feed you back! Rhonda Fleming Hayes boasts a garden you can hear as you approach it, and explains what kind of plants help bees in the spring, when they need it most.

Archaeologists have recently uncovered fossils of a new member of the human family tree in South Africa. Anthropologist and Archaeologist, Becca Peixotto, brings us the details of this new discovery and how the unique environment in which they were uncovered is obscuring the dating process.

What is it like living for a few months on the space station? NASA Astronaut, Dr. Sandy Magnus, describes the disorienting, exciting, and weird things about living in a zero gravity environment.

Find out how to cure your ailments as we chat with Dr. Joel Wallach in a special health edition of Popular Science Radio. Segment 1: Wheat Intolerance First cases of gluten intolerance can be traced back thousands of years to Egyptian physicians. Dead Doctors Don't Lie author, Dr. Joel Wallach, tells us of the horrible health effects of gluten intolerance and wheat's role in it. Segment 2: Migraine Relief Secrets Are you seeking relief from chronic migraines, but nothing seems to be working? Dr. Joel Wallach teach us that migraines are set off by an imbalance in our 90 essential nutrients, and a change in our diet might be just what the doctor ordered. Segment 3: Bowel Movement Blues Many of our health problems can be traced back to gluten, and constipation is no exception to that rule, according to Dr. Joel Wallach. Dr. Wallach gives us a quick and easy remedy to free up our bowel movements and a simple plan for never having the same issue again. Segment 4: An Unexpected Remedy After five years of struggling with Tourette's syndrome, Dr. Joel Wallach discovered his own cure at age nine: Alfalfa Pellets. Find out how Dr. Wallach's self treatment lead him down the path to becoming a knowledgeable nutritional health expert. Segment 5: 90 Essential Nutrients Hair color loss, varicose veins, and other similar problems are all warning signs of a bigger problem: Nutritional deficiencies. Dr. Joel Wallach explains the importance of getting our 90 essential nutrients in our diet and how he can help. Segment 6: Saturated Fat vs Crisco Could the push to demonize saturated fat and butter in favor of Crisco be responsible for our current health problems? Dr. Joel Wallach describes the fall out of this nefarious sales campaign.

Are you seeking relief from chronic migraines, but nothing seems to be working? Dr. Joel Wallach teach us that migraines are set off by an imbalance in our 90 essential nutrients, and a change in our diet might be just what the doctor ordered.

Many of our health problems can be traced back to gluten, and constipation is no exception to that rule, according to Dr. Joel Wallach. Dr. Wallach gives us a quick and easy remedy to free up our bowel movements and a simple plan for never having the same issue again.

Could the push to demonize saturated fat and butter in favor of Crisco be responsible for our current health problems? Dr. Joel Wallach describes the fall out of this nefarious sales campaign.

Have you ever wanted to take a trip to outer space? Find out how Jane Poynter plans to send people on space-cations... in a balloon! Then, we chat about the changing world of power, vehicle diagnostics, and connected car security. Segment 1: Space Balloon Have you ever been to space? Do you want to go? Thanks to CEO Jane Poynter and World View, the common man is now one step closer to taking a joy ride in the upper reaches of our atmosphere. Segment 2: Gentle Space Ride So when can we take a 6 hour balloon ride vacation into space, and what does this entail? World View CEO, Jane Poynter, explains the casual nature and enlightening nature of a trip to space. Segment 3: Biosphere 2 The Earth is a huge biosphere with many different ecosystems. Jane Poynter tells us about the Biosphere 2 project, which was designed to simulate the individual ecosystems of the Earth in an enclosed habitat. Segment 4: Capstone Turbine Society has moved away from the landline and the movie rental store, so why would we think power lines couldn't be next? Capstone Turbine President and CEO, Darren Jamison, tells us about their clean-and-green microturbines that have the potential to revolutionize the way you consume electricity. Segment 5: BlueDriver Get access to the same tools professional mechanics use and even the playing field. Lemur Vehicle Monitors CEO, Maurice Tuff, tells us about the BlueDriver, a Bluetooth enabled vehicle diagnostics monitor that can diagnose your cars illness on the spot. Segment 6: Connected Car Security Should we be afraid of hackers remotely accessing and taking conrol of our connected vehicles? Arxan Security Solutions Architect, Matt Clemens, assures us that while we should be aware of the possibility, he is confident that the industry will continue to improve in this department and we should have nothing to worry about.

Have you ever been to space? Do you want to go? Thanks to CEO Jane Poynter and World View, the common man is now one step closer to taking a joy ride in the upper reaches of our atmosphere.

So when can we take a 6 hour balloon ride vacation into space, and what does this entail? World View CEO, Jane Poynter, explains the casual nature and enlightening nature of a trip to space.