Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSlime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
Ruth Kassinger
Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us. (Starts 00:00) We speak with science writer Ruth Kassinger about h…
6 years, 9 months ago
PUNCH-ing the Sun
This image shows a background image of the Sun overlaid with outlines of the PUNCH Wide Field Imagers (WFIs) and the Narrow Field Imager (NFI) occult…
6 years, 10 months ago
Cancer, Immunity and the Future of a Cure
Despite all the advances in modern medical science, a diagnosis of Cancer often casts a pallor of hopelessness, for both the patient and the practiti…
6 years, 10 months ago
Yeast & Entropy
Matthias Heinemann
Yeast & Entropy (starts 2:30) When yeast cells eat sugar and then give off ethanol, it helps us make yeast breads and beer. But …
6 years, 10 months ago
Toxic Air’s Health Risks
Air pollution over Denver. Photo credit: NCAR
Air Pollution, Possible Solutions
(start time: 2:36) It is ubiquitous and essential to our life. It it …
6 years, 11 months ago
Paternity Science
PaternityThis week on How on Earth, Beth interviews Nara Milanich, author of Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father, and professor of history at…
6 years, 11 months ago
A Walking Life // MOSAIC Arctic Expedition
Photo from Alfred Wegener Institute
In the first feature (start time 1:00) KGNU’s Maeve Conran speaks with Antonia Malchik, author of A Walking Life.…
6 years, 11 months ago
2019 Graduation Special
With graduation season is upon us, today’s edition of How on Earth is our annual “Graduation Special”. Our guests in the studio today are scientists …
6 years, 11 months ago
Gold Lab Symposium 2019
Larry Gold
We speak with Larry Gold, founder of the Gold Lab Symposium that will take place at CU Boulder’s Muenzinger Auditorium this Friday and Sat…
7 years ago
Plastic Pollution & Solutions
Marine debris, Hawaii
photo courtesy: NOAA
Tackling Plastic Pollution (starts at 3:09): It is, sadly, common for beachcombers around the world to see…
7 years ago