Over Coffee® | Stories and Resources from the Intersection of Art and Science |

Can you imagine a time when people thought spaceflight impossible--or at least, unlikely? Just over seventy years ago, three teams of visionaries embarked on a major challenge: to prove that perception wrong. Their stories are the subject of the book The First Space Race: Launching the World's First Satellites. Author, science writer, historian and naturalist Matt Bille, who co-wrote The First Space Race with Erika Lishock, takes readers behind the scenes of the dawn of the space age in the 1

Stemuli has pioneered yet another educational innovation: the world's first AI-native learning platform! And students get to learn AI literacy, problem-solving and math skills for their roles in a future economy, through a new video game called Founder Tycoon. Dallas-based educational technology company Stemuli, which started in 2016, created the first game-based learning metaverse in the United States. The goal: to engage and provide opportunity for all students--particularly those in underse

Where do YOU fit into the math, science or computer-science community? Count Play Explore is making these topics accessible to everyone. And their content is fun, easy and free--for children ages birth to eight, their teachers and their families. An initiative led by the Office of the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools, Early Care and Education Department, Count Play Explore offers playful math, science and computer science lessons. And they start with storytelling or other fun activitie

For AI and XR developer Andre "Dre" Smith, virtual reality, brain-computer interface technology and AI are artist's tools. And to describe him as "prolific", would be an understatement. Dre is always exploring, experimenting and creating something new at the edge of immersive computing. Dre's projects include apps, immersive experiences, games and real-time neurofeedback systems. One of his most intriguing current projects, Octobot, is a multiplayer experience in which players use a brain-co

As we celebrate Over Coffee®'s 500th episode, we've had a very enviable "problem". Too many great guests, and great stories, to include everyone in ONE episode! Consequently, here is our second installment of our Show 500 special. Thank you again to all the incredible interview guests who generously took the time to share their stories, and we're looking forward to spotlighting many more creative innovators at the intersection of art and science.

"What are you going to do for Show 500?" People were asking me that question, as Over Coffee® approached that number of episodes this year. The answer was pretty easy. Without our incredible guests, the Over Coffee® podcast wouldn't exist. So, here is both a retrospective, and an update on just a few of the amazing innovators who have starred in our show, over our years of production. And a quick note--this is only a sampling, highlighting just some of the amazing creative guests with whom I