KGNU - How On Earth
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How On Earth is a 25-minute news magazine about science, environment, technology, and more. The show is produced by volunteers at KGNU community radio in the Boulder-Denver area. We collect fascinating science headlines from around the world, produce features about the exciting research being done in our region, and interview the many accomplished scientists that make Colorado their home. How On Earth is also broadcast live at 8:35am (Mountain Time) every Tuesday morning in the Boulder-Denver area on KGNU: 88.5 FM / 1390 AM / Streaming on KGNU.org
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Distributed Energy // Pluto’s Occultation | In today's How On Earth we have two features: Distributed Energy (start time 5:46): Enjoying the twinkling stars without nighttime light pollution is a luxury for many of us. We can flick on the switch when we return home, after all. | 5/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thorium // Space Weather | Thorium (start time 4:54). It sits at the bottom of the periodic table of elements, among its fellow radioactive substances, including uranium and plutonium. It’s called Thorium, named for the Norse god of thunder. Decades ago, | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Calories Count//Boulder Gold Lab Symposium | Why Calories Count (start time 7:10). More than a billion people in the world suffer from too few of them. About the same number suffer from too many. We're talking about calories. They’re vital to human health, indeed our very survival. A new book, | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Proteomics and the Search for a Wellness Chip | What if you could find out about dozens of diseases, all at once, from just one tube of your blood? It might happen soon, with proteomics and the search for wellness chip. In this episode, we talk with scientists at Boulder's Somalogic, Dan Chan, | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Climate engineering // Jamie Williams | Jamie Williams (start time 5:40). Today on How On Earth we speak with Jamie Williams about land conservation. It’s safe to say that Williams should take credit for large swaths of land in the West that have been preserved as wilderness. | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ron Krauss: Saturated Fat and Red Meat? It Depends | We look at the health effects of saturated fat and red meat with one of the world's leading scientists in the field - Ron Krauss. His recent studies show that replacing saturated fat with carbohydrates INCREASES heart disease risk. | 4/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Communicating with dolphins | Dolphins are intelligent and communicative creatures within their own species and with the other animals native to their waters. Still, a hundred million years of evolutionary history and pressures imposed by radically different environments separate d... | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kinetic Sculptures Refocus the Human Perspective | Jeff Lieberman is a jack of all science trades, and many non-science trades too, actually. He is a mechanical engineer, a design consultant, a photographer, composer and kinetic sculptor. He hosts the Discovery Channel’s “Time Warp” TV show, | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bees and Pesticides // Radiometers and Weather | Bees and Pesticides (start at 6:40). Two studies published last week in the journal Science (here and here) make a strong case for beekeepers who worry that a new class of pesticides called “neonicotinoids” hurts honeybees and bumblebees. | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pesticides, Bees and Niwot Honey Farm’s Tom Theobald [extended version] | This is an extended interview with Niwot Beekeeper Tom Theobald about three new studies that have recently been published regarding the ways that neonicotinoids harm bees. The studies include one from Purdue, and two from Europe, | 3/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Science of Habit Formation | The Power of Habit: If you’re like most of us you’ve tried over and over again to break a bad habit -- be it procrastinating, gorging on chocolate chip cookies every night, or watching TV rather than exercising. | 3/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Science of Habit Formation [extended version] | This is the extended version of the interview by How On Earth host Susan Moran of New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg, author of a new book titled The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business. The interview first aired on March 2 | 3/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Accelerating Expansion of The Universe // Pine Bark Beetles | The Accelerating Expansion of The Universe (start at 5:11). Have you ever had the feeling that things are moving faster and faster these days? Well, maybe it's not your imagination. Proof that the universe is not just expanding but is accelerating | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pine Bark Beetles – Extended Interview with Jeff Mitton and Scott Ferrenberg | -- | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fukushima Anniversary: global impacts one year later | Fukushima's impacts a year later: In today's show we offer a full-length feature (start at 4:57) to mark the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster -- the worse nuclear meltdown since Chernobyl in 1986. | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess | For our annual Spring Pledge Drive, we feature a book about race, religion and DNA. The book is The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess, by Jeff Wheelwright. It's a story about a beautiful young, Hispano woman in the San Luis Valley of Colorado w. | 3/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fukushima Cleanup // Space Debris | Today, Feb. 28, we feature two interviews. - Fukashima Cleanup (start at 7:23). A daunting and ongoing cleanup task is that of removing radioactively contaminated material from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fukushima Cleanup [extended version] | This is an extended version of an interview the KGNU Science show, How on Earth broadcast on February 28th, 2012 about radiation clean-up efforts for Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power plant. This interview features Steve Rima. | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leaky Natural Gas Wells // Measuring Glaciers and Ice Caps | Leaky Natural Gas Wells (start time 6:22). We speak with Greg Frost, a scientist from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), about a new study, | 2/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leaky Natural Gas Wells [extended version] | - This is an extended version of the KGNU Science Show, How on Earth. It features Greg Frost, a scientist with the University of Colorado at Boulder and with NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. | 2/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Boulder Robotics // Compassion | - Boulder is for Robotics (start time 4:00). "It starts really with the fact that a lot of robotics materials, sensors and manufacturing are here in Colorado." Boulder as a hub for robotics? You bet. KGNU's Tom McKinnon reports from the first Boulde. | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Snowshoe Hare // Cubelets Robotics | Snowshoe Hare Faces Uncertain Future (start time 6:35). They don’t get much cuter than bunnies. One of the cutest of them all is the snowshoe hare. It’s elusive, and well camouflaged, so you may well never have seen one. To survive, | 2/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Algae oil omega-3 // Little Ice Age | Algae Oil Omega-3 (start time 5:28). Omega-3 dietary supplements are all the rage. Many studies claim that this family of fatty acids benefits your brain, heart and vision, among other things. A non-fish source that already is infused in milk and othe | 1/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Underwater Volcanoes // Sleep | Underwater Volcanoes (start time 5:45). Most of our planet's volcanoes are out of sight, and largely out of mind. Hidden under sometimes thousands of feet of water, volcanoes on the sea floor bubble and boil away without our knowledge and largely witho... | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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20th Anniversary Science Show | We celebrate 20 years of How on Earth, featuring the 1st ever KGNU science show, 20 years ago, including Bucky Balls, Electromagnetic Radiation and Cows, Hubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble, and along the way, we give updates on current science issues, | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The first KGNU science show (Jan 1992) | Here is the ORIGINAL KGNU science show, broadcast 20 years ago in January 1992. For our science show on January 17, 2012, we'll feature excerpts from this show, along with interviews with two of the show's originators, KGNU station manager, Sam Fuqua, | 1/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nicotine Patches // Restoring the Desert | Do nicotine patches really help you stop smoking? Shelley Schlender interviews a scientist who says they don't. Lois Biener and her colleagues at the University of Massachusetts and Harvard University have done a study that indicates that out in t | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nicotine Patches Don’t Work [extended version] | This is an extended version of the interview with researchers at Harvard and the University of Massachusetts, which indicates that out in the real world, people who use nicotine replacement therapy in the hopes of an easier “quit” don’t fare any bet | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth | - We hear about a book called Logicomix, featuring Christos Papidimitriou, who is one of the world’s leaders on computational complexity theory, and what happens when he consents to be interviewed by two 10-year olds. And in the headlines, | 1/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean Water Struggles // 2011′s Big Sci-Enviro-Tech Stories | Mining retention pond in Colorado. Image courtesy of the EPA. Clean Water Struggles. Co-host Susan Moran interviews journalist Judith Lewis Mernit about how small rural communities in the West are struggling to afford complying with federal water-qual... | 12/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Holiday Sci & Tech Gifts // Eating Your Heart Out? | - We take a look at favorite holiday sci-tech gifts, including the SparkFun Inventor’s Kit, Logicomix, Manga Guide to Electricity, Lego Mindstorms, a fun new novelty for anyone on your list - giant microbes. After the show, | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Incentives for Renewable Energy//Climate Change and Biodiversity | In last month’s election, Boulder voters gave the go-ahead for the city to move forward on municipalizing the electrical utility. The chief motivation for that decision was to put more renewable energy on the grid. | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Future of Electric Vehicles//Diet and Acne | Jim Motavalli joins us by phone from his home in Fairfield, Connecticut. Jim is the author of a new book titled "High Voltage: The Fast Track to Plug In the Auto Industry" and helped us sort out some of the issues around EVs. Mr. | 12/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Of Math and Wizards | One often hears people state "I'm not good at math" or that they don’t like math because it they don’t think it has any relevance to their day-to-day life (other than, maybe, to balance a checkbook). However, | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wild Turkeys // Light Pollution | In celebration of Thanksgiving, Beth Bartel interviews Stan Baker of the National Wild Turkey Federation about wild turkeys in Colorado. You may be surprised at the story of the wild turkey in North America and just how different the wild turkey is fro... | 11/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Water Crisis // Maker Movement | Susan Moran has a telephone interview with Cynthia Barnett. Cynthia is a journalist and author of Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis.” She calls the U.S. one of the most “water-wasting places on the planet. | 11/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Colorado & Oceans // Nitrogen & Snails | Feature #1 (time mark 5:30) When people think of Colorado, they usually don’t think about “oceans”. After all, Colorado doesn’t have much of a coastline these days, though it was definitely had oceanfront property a few hundred million years a | 11/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Urban Parks // Pythons and Heart Disease | Today, November 1, we offer two features. - Feature #1: Co-host Susan Moran interviews Jonathan Jarvis, director of the National Park Service, who discusses NPS' quest to lure more people to urban parks, | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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National Parks: Extended interview with Jonathan Jarvis | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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National Perspective on Municipalization//Science of Fall Colors | Tom McKinnon and Peter Asmus of Pike Research discuss electrical utility municipalization from a national perspective. Peter adds an interesting statistic -- the photovoltaic industry already has created more jobs than coal mining even though at prese.. | 10/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Extended Interview: Richard Dawkins, The Magic of Reality | On today's pledge drive show we played excerpts from an interview with evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins about his new book, The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True. The book was also featured as a promotional gift for list... | 10/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Post-Wild Nature//LED Lighting | Nature means something different to everyone. It’s a towering old-growth redwood forest to some. Deep silent canyons to others. And urban community gardens to others. Defining what is “pristine nature” is even more dicey. | 10/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wildfire Science | - October is Wildfire Awareness Month, so on today's show we look back at the Fourmile Canyon wildfire and hear from local researchers about some of the scientific opportunities that the fire afforded over the last year. Jim Roberts, | 10/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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We Breathe Microbes//Noah Fierer | We explore the world microbes, and how they’re everywhere, and how the University of Colorado at Boulder has scientists such as Noah Fierer who are trying to track all those microbes down and figure out which ones help us and which ones don’t, | 9/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pine Beetle Kill // Plight of Sharks | Feature #1: If you live on the Front Range, or just about anywhere else in Colorado, you don’t have to go far to notice huge swaths of rusty brown that have replaced green conifer forests. By now, many people are familiar at least with the devastating . | 9/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Plight of Sharks – Extended Interview with Juliet Eilperin | -- | 9/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wind Energy | In today's show take a look at the future of wind energy. We have with us in the studio Sandy Butterfield. Sandy is the CEO and co-founder of Boulder Wind Power. Prior to his starting this venture, Sandy spent over 24 years at the National Renewable En... | 9/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GMOs & Health: The Loss of Small Farms and the Rise of Immune Disorders | We look at the strange rise in autoimmune diseases, allergies and asthma, with experts from the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center and with National Jewish Health Immunlogist Andy Liu in Denver. And, | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GMOs and Health – Extended Interview with Andy Liu – National Jewish Health | -- | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GMOs and Health – Extended Interview with Stefano Guandalini – Celiac Disease Center | -- | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GMOs and Health – Extended Interview with Carol Shilson, Celiac Disease Center | -- | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GMOs and Health – Extended Interview with Charles Benbrook, The Organic Center | -- | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nitrogen pollution // Electric vehicles | On today's show we offer two interview features. Feature #1: - Last week the Environmental Protection Agency published a seminal report about nitrogen, which is an enormous environmental and public health problem that some scientists put on par w... | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pluto’s Moons // Wildlife Preservation | Feature #1: Last month, astronomers working on the Hubble Space Telescope announced the discovery of another, fourth moon around Pluto; this moon is so small that it could fit easily inside Boulder County (a pretty tricky thing to find at a distance o... | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Extended interview with Alan Stern | On today's show we featured an interview with Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute, who is principal investigator on NASA's New Horizons mission. He told us about a fourth, tiny moon orbiting Pluto—found last month by his team during observat. | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lean Deli Meat vs A Big Fat Steak . . . and Water in Outer Space | We talk with one of the nation’s leading nutrition scientists . . . whose opinions about food and health might not be popular with the American Salt Institute . . . OR with the USDA. Dariush Mozaffarian is with the Harvard School of Public Health, | 8/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Janos Perczel – Invisibility Cloak (Extended Version) | This podcast provides extended version of our interview with Janos Perczel about his new Invisibility Cloak. - Background: - An undergraduate at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland has overcome a major hurdle in the development of invisibility... | 8/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Harvard Epidemiologist Dariush Mozaffarian on Salt (extended version) | Here's an extended version of Shelley Schlender's interview with Dariush Mozaffarian on Salt. Note that in the interview, Shelley asks Dr. Mozaffarian to comment on some of the assertions made in the popular press, Scientific American story, | 8/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tech aspects of Boulder utility municipalization | In November Boulder will be asking the voters to approve the conversion of the electrical utility from one run by Xcel Energy to one run by the city. While there are many, many political issues associated with this vote, | 8/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Music producer Tom Wasinger comments on HOE theme song entries | Grammy Award-winning music producer Tom Wasinger comments on the entries to the How on Earth theme song contest. Give us comments on your favorite theme song here. The winner will be announced on August 12, 2011. | 7/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Green Tech Author // NCAR Climate Scientist | This week's How On Earth offers two features: Co-host Susan Moran interviews Alexis Madrigal, a senior editor for The Atlantic magazine and author of the new book, Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. | 7/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ocean Acidification // Citizen Science | - - - Feature #1: Many problems plague the oceans and the fish and other species that inhabit them: overfishing, pollution, and much more. But perhaps the greatest threat to sea life - and possibly to humans - is ocean acidification. | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Science Education, Evolution & Creationism | At its most basic level, science can be considered as non-political or at least politically neutral: science is dedicated to the collection of facts and interpreting them to help us understand the universe and how it works. For that reason, | 6/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beekeeping in Troubled Times | This week on How On Earth co-host Susan Moran interviews Hannah Nordhaus, Boulder-based author of the new book, The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Feed America. Nordhaus describes how one passionate, | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cell Phone Safety | The World Health Organization has officially listed cells phones as a possible carcinogen. One expert who's not surprised at the designation is University of Colorado, distinguished professor Frank Barnes. For decades, | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cell Phone Safety – Extended Version | - Here is the extended version of the interview with CU Electrical Engineering Professor Frank Barnes about cell phone safety. - | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cavemen Stayed Local while Women Left Home | We talk with Sandi Copeland, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at CU, about this story: - Two million years ago, two-legged apes roamed the African landscape. Many of these ancient hominins, lived in limestone caves in what is now South Africa. | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Colorado river crisis // “The Believing Brain” | This week co-host Susan Moran speaks with Dr. Doug Kenney, director of the Western Water Policy Program at the Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder’s law school. Kenney sheds light on the Colorado River Compact and how p | 5/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Moonwalking with Einstein (Part 2) // Brain Evolution | We present the second part of Joel Parker's interview of Joshua Foer, author of the book "Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything" (the full interview can be found here). To round out the "brain theme" of the show, | 5/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Future of Space Flight: Alan Stern & Elon Musk | We share excerpts from a talk about the Future of Spaceflight, presented at CU-Boulder in April, featuring Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute and Elon Musk of Space X. - Producer: Shelley Schlender Co-hosts: Joel Parker, Ted Burnham | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gold Lab Symposium & Fat for Stronger Muscles | We learn about new research that indicates that the combination of exercise plus eating high cholesterol foods may help build lean body mass, even in older adults. - What's more, eating high cholesterol foods such as cheese, beef fat and eggs, | 5/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Climate-health link//Smart grid | On this How On Earth show we explore how climate change is taking a toll on human health, and then how "smart grid" technology can help reduce the carbon footprint of electrical power generation. Co-host Susan Moran interviews Paul Epstein, | 5/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Virtual power plants//Wildfires and climate change | Tom McKinnon interviews, via phone, Peter Asmus of Pike Research about Virtual Power Plants. This emerging information technology may help to integrate more renewable power onto the gird. And even save money for customers who are willing to turn down. | 4/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Natural Gas Boom//BP Oil Spill’s Human Toll | We discuss the environmental and human costs of natural gas drilling practices, and then the human toll of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico one year after the disaster. On natural gas drilling practices, Susan Moran interviews Steve Torbit, | 4/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Extended interview with Anjali Bhatara | Here's a longer version of my interview with Anjali Bhatara, which aired on today's program. Dr. Bhatara is with the Laboratory of the Psychology of Perception at the University of Paris, where she studies the interactions between music and the brain, | 4/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Theme Song Contest // Science of Music | Today we announce a contest to find new theme music for How On Earth! Our current theme has served us well for more than 20 years, but we feel it's time to change our tune. We're looking to local musicians for that new "How On Earth" sound. | 4/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pseudoscience // Conservation | Welcome to a special edition of How on Earth, done in conjunction with the Conference on World Affairs, which is being held this week on the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus. Our two guests are participants in the Conference on World Affairs. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ocean thermal energy//Climate and drought in the Rockies | Our live guests are consultant Dr. Robert Cohen and CU scientist Kristen Averyt. Dr. Cohen discusses ocean thermal energy -- a method to harvest some of the almost limitless solar energy captured daily by the oceans. Dr. | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Reactor Accident | In-studio guests Jeff King, Director of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Program at the Colorado School of Mines, and Len Ackland, Co-Director of the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, | 3/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Moonwalking with Einstein // Pledge Drive Show | In this Spring Pledge Drive Show, we share an update on the crisis in Japan from Kathleen Tierney of CU-Boulder's Natural Hazards Center, and then Joel Parker interviews Joshua Foer, author of the runaway bestseller, | 3/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Scientific Citizen Astronauts // Scientific Performance Art | This week on How On Earth, we talk with two Boulder researchers, Dan Durda and Cathy Olkin, who are training to become "scientist astronauts" on some of the first suborbital space flights provided by private companies in the post-shuttle era (extended .. | 3/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Colorado Growth Model is Replacing CSAPs // Boulder Valley Science Fair | In honor of KGNU's Kid's Week, we go to the Boulder County Science Fair with How on Earth's Tom McKinnon. In turns out three of the five students Tom interviewed before the judging began ended up as winners at the science show! Then, | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bioastronautics at CU Bioserve // Boulder County EnergySmart energy efficiency service | Ted Burnham inteviews CU PhD student Christine Fanchiang on her role in helping the BioServe program prepare experiments for a ride on the Space Shuttle. Tom McKinnon talks to Beth Beckel, an Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Specialist with Bould... | 2/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CU Medical Professor Shares Love of Science | This week we'll feature CU Medical School Immunologist John Cohen, who has just received the American Association for the Advancement of Science top award for promoting public understanding of Science. In addition to teaching at the Medical School, | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Front range water / Kepler planet-hunter | Our two features for this week's show: Susan Moran interviewed Joel Smith, principal at Stratus Consulting in Boulder, who has been helping the city adapt to climate change—in particular, by smartly managing its water supply; and Tom Yulsman interview | 2/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From Jars to the Stars / Plants moving uphill | Our guest this week is Todd Neff, who was a science reporter for Boulder's Daily Camera newspaper and is author of a new book, From Jars to the Stars: How Ball Came to Build a Comet-Hunting Machine, about the history of Ball Aerospace. | 1/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Earthquakes & corruption / Astrology shake-up | This week on How On Earth, University of Colorado earth scientist Roger Bilham joins us in the studio to talk about his latest study, which shows a correlation between the prevalence of corruption in a country and the likelihood of civilian deaths duri... | 1/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MAVEN: Mission to Mars / Communicating geophysics | On this week's How On Earth, we're joined by the University of Colorado's Bruce Jakosky, principle investigator on the MAVEN satellite mission that will investigate Mars' upper atmosphere. NASA granted final approval to MAVEN last fall, | 1/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 88 Episodes |
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