Podcast Episodes

The Nuclear Option for Decarbonization

In this week’s show, Beth interviews Joshua Goldstein. He and co-author Steffan Qvist wrote eloquently about how nuclear energy can replace fossil fu…

7 years ago

Concussion Test // Pot & Pain Meds // Chords and Codons

Concussion Test (Starts 1:00)  David Howell is chief researcher at Children’s Hospital Colorado.  Howell says the century old Romberg Balance Test …

7 years ago

An Astronomical Journey with Michelle Thaller

This special edition of How on Earth is produced in conjunction with the Conference on World Affairs.  Our guest a participants of the Conference: Dr…

7 years, 1 month ago

Pesticides and Health Impacts

A Consumer’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce (starts  7:55) You may be wondering if you washed the strawberries, blueberries or kale that you had for …

7 years, 1 month ago

This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution

This View of Life (starts 6:56) In this episode of How on Earth, we talk with David Sloan Wilson, an evolutionary biologist with a special interest i…

7 years, 1 month ago

The Goodness Paradox – Full Interview

The Goodness Paradox (Starts 5:22): On this week’s show we play the full interview with Richard Wrangham, a primatologist at Harvard University, abou…

7 years, 1 month ago

The Goodness Paradox // Pledge Drive

The Goodness Paradox (Teaser): Today’s spring pledge-drive show features brief clips from a recent interview with Richard Wrangham, a primatologist a…

7 years, 2 months ago

Tagging the Bugs that Carry Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic Resistance

In this week’s show, Beth interviews Dr. Ivan Liachko, CEO and Co-Founder of Phase Genomics, a startup biotech company recently…

7 years, 2 months ago

MRI Improvement by Standardization

MRI image of brainIn this week’s show, Beth speaks with William Hollander, and Kevin Miller, of QalibreMD, a Boulder startup focused on transforming …

7 years, 2 months ago

HOLOSCENES / Little Boxes: Science On a Sphere

HOLSCENE Still. Photo courtesy of Early Morning Opera and NightLight Labs

Spend some time at the intersection of art, engineering and science; we’ll …

7 years, 3 months ago