Across the UK, across continental North America, and around the world on the internet by webcast and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes and this is the unexplained.

Well, I hope late summer, Northern Hemisphere is being good to you. I know that it is kind of hot and muggy and sticky.

Here in London town at the moment, and I think many other parts of the UK, there's been a lot of rainfall in some areas, Germany, my thoughts are with you for all the flooding.

And there's been flooding in London too. Some areas have heat waves, but whatever the weather is like for you, I hope that you're bearing up and that you're okay.

Summers, not quite as I remember it when I was a kid. Sometimes it's, it's, I'm not saying it's unbearable, but it's, it's difficult. Let's put it that way.

Okay. Let me know your experience. If you want to get in touch with me, by the way, thank you for all of the emails that you've been sending in.

You can always email me by going to my website, the unexplained.tv following the link and you can send me an email from there. And thank you to Adam for his hard work on the website and also to Haley for booking the guests, including the person you're about to hear now.

Dr Bart Cosco, the return of I love speaking with Bart because I never quite know where our conversation is going to range. Bart, of course, was one of Art Bell's favorite guests and he's become one of my favorite guests too in California.

I'll read you a little bit of his biography. It's very long. So we can't read it all, but Dr Bart Cosco, professor of electrical and computer engineering in the University of Southern California's Vitter by School of Engineering and a professor of engineering and law in USC's

School of Law. He received bachelor's degree in philosophy and economics from the University of Southern California master's degree in applied mathematics from the University of California San Diego. And so it goes. He is a uniquely placed guy to talk about not only the science, but also the human aspects of science.

So we're going to talk about everything from brain implants to the internet to questions of modern day morality and ethics and how they meld with the internet age and a lot of other stuff too.

I find him a very cool guest. So Bart Cosco coming up here on the unexplained on this edition. Thank you very much for being part of my show and part of my life.

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All right, I'm not going to mess about not going to delay or doggle in any way now. Let's get straight with an eight hour time gap. So it's very late at night. Very early in the morning, actually for Bart Cosco in California.

And it's breakfast time here in London for me. So it kind of works out for both of us. So let's make that connection right now. Bart Cosco, so nice to have you back on my show. How are you?

I'm fine. How are you Howard? Good, Bart. I don't know about you and I know that the world has generally been affected by strange weather, but here in London, it's humid.

At the minute we've had torrential rain and flooding. We had boiling hot sunshine. So we've had some strange stuff this summer. How about you?

It just rained here on Los Angeles and the mountains outside Los Angeles. It does that this time of year, though, because of the monsoon. But we haven't had that for a couple of three years. And we just had the United States, the hottest June on record. And here in California, we're headed back into a drought. But other than that, we're doing fine.

Well, you know, if you're talking is we will be talking technology. I think somebody needs to work on affordable air conditioning systems for countries where you didn't need air conditioning before.

I've got to tell you that in the heat, for the last couple of years, I bought this air conditioning box on eBay and it vents out of my bedroom window with a plastic hose that you know, I can just dismantle the whole thing when the heat wave has stopped.

But I now use that regularly and sometimes over the last couple of weeks, my bedroom has been the only comfortable room in my apartment. And that's that's how we're going. So somebody, some inventor needs to come up with a way of chilling the air in buildings that way.

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