Podcast Episodes

Silent Sky // Gold Lab Symposium

Protest It, Respect It, Defend  It, Use It (starts 1:00) Friday at Denver Patagonia and Saturday at Boulder Patagonia environmental activists Annie L…

4 hours ago

A Longer Healthier Life

On this week’s How on Earth, Beth speaks with author, psychologist, and aging explorer Alan Carpenter to discuss the paradigm shift on aging he espou…

1 week ago

The Loneliness Epidemic – CSU Researcher Natalie Pennington

Friendship Researcher Natalie Pennington

The Loneliness Epidemic – Social media fuels extra risk.  Especially vulnerable are people undergoing transi…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Forest as Superorganism: What it means to Clearcut.

On this week’s How on Earth, Beth speaks with Suzanne Simard, professor and researcher at the University of British Columbia, about her book, WHEN …

3 weeks ago

Buy Now Pay Later – Enticement or Addiction?

Buy Now Pay Later – is this lending service simply enticing, or is it addictive?  For the GenZ 20 somethings that are its biggest users, is Buy Now P…

4 weeks ago

Women’s Health Pt. III: Menopause & the Brain

Estrogen on the brain
Credit: Mosconi Lab

The Brain on Menopause (start time: 01:24) In this week’s show, we offer the finale of our three-part series…

1 month ago

A Brain Circuit That Switches Acute to Chronic Pain

On this week’s How on Earth, Beth talks with neuroscientist and chronic pain researcher Jayson Ball. He recently completed a study of a novel brain c…

1 month, 1 week ago

Conserving Imperiled Prairie Dogs, Raptors & Their Grasslands

White-tailed Prairie Dogs Credit: Rich Reading

Preserving prairie dog+raptor ecosystem (start time: 5:03)  Spring has just begun, even if winter hard…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Pollinator Power & Precarity

Photo credit: Butterfly Pavilion

The Power of Precarity of Pollinators (start time: 8:01) This extremely warm winter in Colorado has delivered early …

1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Scale of the Universe

How big is the universe – not just in the scale of  distance but also the scale of time?  What do those…astronomical…scales mean about us humans on E…

2 months, 1 week ago