Bioelectricity - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 4/25/23
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🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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George Noory and science writer Sally Adee explore the research into electrical currents that run through the human body and all living things, its misunderstood history, and even attempts to reanimate dead bodies with experiments like Frankenstein's monster.
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| 0:35.0 | And welcome back to Coast to Coast George, nori with you Sally Edy with us. |
| 0:39.0 | Sally is a science and technology writer, author most recently. |
| 0:42.0 | She was a features editor at New Science, where she wrote some of the most lasting content, |
| 0:48.0 | including the 2012 feature that explained bioelectricity technology to the general public for the very first time. |
| 0:55.0 | She is the science consultant for the television adaption of Naomi Aldermen's The Power at Amazon Studios |
| 1:02.0 | and has won a U.S. National Press Club Award, a BT Information Security Award, |
| 1:07.0 | and the Guild of Health Writers Award for her inside account of the Silicon Valley, a young blooded clinic. |
| 1:14.0 | And welcome to the show. Sally, your book is called We Are Electric and it's fantastic. Welcome. |
| 1:21.0 | Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:24.0 | How did you get interested in bioelectricity? |
| 1:28.0 | So it's a little bit of a long back story. |
| 1:31.0 | I used to work for a magazine called IEEE Spectrum. |
| 1:35.0 | That's the magazine for the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers. |
| 1:40.0 | And I was as a sort of young reporter, I was on the semiconductor beat, |
| 1:46.0 | which tends to be a slightly dry beat, I guess. |
| 1:50.0 | Yeah. |
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