Nick Woodman

Somebody captures an incredible video, shares it online, and inspires millions of other people to go and do the same with their GoPros, and then it happens again and again - and what you've got is this incredible snowball of stoked customers capturing and creating rad content with their GoPros.

American Businessman

Sofia Richie

My friend Chloe Bartoli is a really cool stylist. I've talked about fashion with her a lot over the years. And I love Rihanna - she's rad. Through modeling, I've gotten to know a lot of designers that are really cool. Stefano and Domenico of Dolce & Gabbana have been really sweet.

American Celebrity

Dan Reynolds

Mormonism truly was a part of my every decision since the day I was born. It taught me to serve others and to feel comfort about the next life. Who doesn't want to live for eternity and have a 'mansion in heaven'? It sounded like a rad deal to me when I was in my teenage years.

American Musician

Ryan North

The challenge is to stay true to the characters while also having them be entertaining every day, because it turns out that just watching someone be true to themselves isn't that rad to watch.

Canadian Writer

Kerli

One day, I'll be a crazy old lady with long rainbow hair living in the woods. I will have a rad tree house with tons of rooms for people to come over, recharge, and make art.

Estonian Musician

Pete Wentz

I remember my first kisses with a lot of people, and they're rad experiences. And you don't have to really take it to that next level because that's what keeps it exciting.

Hong Chau

I'm never concerned about being first or on trend. I only want to feel like my most rad 'me.

American Actress

Lauren Cohan

I love, love, love, Halloween. I love dressing up - I think it's rad!

Stella Maxwell

When something's really rad, I'm like, 'That's wicked.

Belgian Model

Chris Pontius

Used by young people, especially within skateboarding and surfing communities.

Youth Slang

Gained popularity in the 1980s; using 'rad' may evoke nostalgia for that era.

1980s Resurgence

'Rad' conveys a very positive emotion, stronger than 'nice' or 'cool'.

Positive Vibes

Always used in the context of radiation exposure, not general usage.

Radiation Context

One rad is specific: equal to an absorbed dose of 0.01 joule per kilogram.

Specific Measurement

Most relevant in medical fields, especially radiology and oncology.

Medical Relevance

 looking for the route is it always just takes a week or two to get used to the weather and then you sort of forget that there's warmth other places in the world you sort of get involved with this environment I didn't forget it I do remember that ready now we're sort of giggling in our tent over like this is rad this is so sweet and and I remember

Mike Libecki & Cory...

 place that we were going and sort of the words he was using you know I feel like I come up after these two guys and I'm like are you guys ready for the inarticulate part of the presentation cuz that's you know that all of the words the adjectives and everything I'm just like it's rad you know this place

Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...

 And then we went to a fish restaurant, and we had Chad, the surfer dude, serving us, and he came up and my mother said, "Do you have any specials, young man?" And Chad says, "Sure, like, we have this, like, salmon, that's, like, rolled in this, like, wasabi, like, crust. It's totally rad."

Chris Abani on the...

 of telling being a successful adventure and telling a good story you know that I do all these sports because I love them probably like everybody is on this panel here and you know they're all my hero is any one of these people are incredibly rad so better to better question for

Hangout With the...

 put it into perspective if you have a chest x-ray if you go to a hospital you get approximately three to four rad dosage of x-rays when you have a chest x-ray in a split second we were giving a dose of between two and a half to three thousand rad for forty minutes at a time

Grave Secrets of...

 one of my favorite is an e-commerce startup Gordon rad so they sell electronics and clothing on their marketplace and oddly enough this story starts by me rejecting their application from the program but luckily the three

Looking for innovation...

 I put my rope away and I switched to soloing. I just had a moment of..., like this is surreally cool. I was like, I can't believe I'm up here with no rope just climbing. Like, this is rad!

Bonus: Free Soloing with...

 glass for extra protection we have biological monitoring equipment rad meters chemical test kits to secure his bunker from airborne toxins Jarius belt an ultraviolet radiation

Every Detail PIPE Doomsday...

 Bad sound, the signal's weak, the software stinks. A made-in-Hell phone. I've heard there's something new -- a million times more rad than my phone.

David Pogue: Cool new...

 Oh, this is so rad! The boot camp really did bring everybody together in a really wonderful way. The bond on this set is something special.