Podcast Episodes

Climate Change and Extinctions Following an Asteroid Impact

Climate Change and Extinctions Following an Asteroid Impact (starts at 8:45) It has been hypothesized that the dinosaurs were killed off by a large a…

8 years, 8 months ago

Boulder Firestone Monorail // Regeneration & Eclipse photo-bombing

MagLev PRT car.
Image courtesy of www.skytran.com

Sustainable Transportation is a major issue for the front range.  In that field a hot topic is PRT, …

8 years, 8 months ago

Stay Young – If You’re a Worm

Age

This week on How on Earth, Beth spoke with Dr Gordon Lithgow, a researcher at the Buck Institute for Aging in California who studies aging in nem…

8 years, 8 months ago

Mortality Trends in America // Life Expectancy in America

This week on How on Earth we look at the scientific research into the lifespans of Americans.

Andrea Tilstra

Mortality trends in America (start time …

8 years, 9 months ago

Chasing Shadows – Stellar Occultations and the Outer Solar System

Shadow Chasers
(Photo: Jack Jewell)

Chasing Shadows [starts at 9:40]  Astronomy is a science that depends on watching things happen in the universe th…

8 years, 9 months ago

Space Shield for Satellites // Virtual Colonoscopy

Van Allen Belts – Courtesy NASA

Space Shield for Satellites (starts 1:00)   An invisible radio wave pollution makes a “space shield” that protects or…

8 years, 9 months ago

The Alien Hunter & SETI

Today’s show offers the following feature:
Extraterrestrial intelligence? (start time: 6:30): It’s mid-summer, a time when many of us like to spend l…

8 years, 9 months ago

Is Your Oral Microbiome Affected by Your Genes?

Twins face to face

On the first day of the summer pledge drive, Beth interviews Dr Brittany Demmitt, a behavioral molecular geneticist. Her recent st…

8 years, 10 months ago

The American Eclipse of 1878

This August 21st, some parts of the Earth will be plunged into darkness in the middle of the day.  It will be a solar eclipse; the moon’s shadow will…

8 years, 10 months ago

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome // Renewables

We offer two feature interviews on today’s show.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (start time: 11:49)  Imagine spending years waking up so sore and fatigued …

8 years, 10 months ago