Podcast Episodes
Back to Search50 Years of Open Space! // Heart Attack and Stroke Risk from Common Sugar Substitute
Erythritol – A common sugar substitute
A Common Sugar Substitute Increases Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke. (starts 11:00) CU-Boulder Integrative P…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
The Tumor Microbiome Can Affect Cancer Survival
On this week’s show Beth speaks with computational biologist Justine Debelius about the role of the microbiome. We first discussed a study she was in…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Climate Science, Cutbacks, Litigation
At a protest outside NOAA in Boulder. Credit: Susan Moran
Tackling Climate Change and Science Cutbacks (start time: 7:03) In this week’s show we disc…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence by Matt Richtel
Teens are in Crisis – Some people warn that Cell Phones are to blame. But Colorado Native and Pulitzer prize winner Matt Richtel says our tech can b…
10 months ago
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies – Eric DeFonso
C Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Merlin Bird ID App (starts 1:00) Boulder Naturalists Steve Jones and Ruth Carol Cushman explore the benefits of the Merl…
10 months, 1 week ago
Viruses are Us!
In this week’s science show Beth talks with genome biologist Ed Chuong of CU Boulder’s innovation incubator, the Biofrontiers Institute. Ed takes us …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
2025 Graduation Special (part 2)
With graduation season upon us, today’s edition of How on Earth is Part 2 of our annual “Graduation Special”. Our guests in the studio today are scie…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
GLP-1 and Blindness
photo of intermediate macular degeneration c National Institutes of Health
We talk with scientists who report that a common weight loss/diabetes drug…
11 months ago
Animal Pandemics?
On this week’s How on Earth, Beth talks with author and science journalist Liz Kalaugher, about her new book, The Elephant in the room:How to Stop M…
11 months, 1 week ago
Saving Weather Forecasting, Climate Science
Scientists speak out for science (start time: 1:00) The Trump administration has been on a dizzying streak of slashing federal funding for scientific…
11 months, 2 weeks ago