Podcast Episodes

CU Multidisciplinary Oil Production Study

Fracking well in Boulder County, Colorado. Photo courtesy of Jim Pullen.How can we best live with natural gas development? A University of Colorado t…

13 years, 6 months ago

Pledge Drive Show//Genetic-mutant Paganini

Paganini in 1831 (credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Paganini)This is our 2012 Fall Pledge Drive Show and our subject is Genes Gone Ba…

13 years, 6 months ago

Boulder Nobel Science Winner//Searching for Sister Earth

We talk with Travis Metcalfe, of Boulder’s Space Science Institute, where he is searching for Sister Earth and also part of the Blue Dot Project.  As…

13 years, 7 months ago

Neanderthals//Antarctica

Feature #1: Neanderthals (start time: 6:01)
Our Neanderthal ancestors have long been maligned as rather dim-witted cave-dwellers. But they may have …

13 years, 7 months ago

Big Waves // Omega 3 Fatty Acids

University of Colorado applied mathematics researchers Mark Ablowitz and Douglas Baldwin with photos of an "X wave" on an Oregon beach.

Big Waves (st…

13 years, 7 months ago

Colorado Drought // A More Perfect Heaven

Colorado Drought Conference (start time 4:35): Experts are meeting at a conference in Denver this week to discuss the implications of prolonged drou…

13 years, 7 months ago

Higgs-Boson: What is all the excitement about?

Higgs Boson drawing from zmescience.com

We’ll talk about the World of a tiny particle called the Higgs-Boson, with CU Physicist Uriel Nauenberg.  Nau…

13 years, 8 months ago

The Idea Factory – Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

Bell Labs thrived from the 1920s to the 1980s, when it was most innovative and productive institution of the twentieth century. Long before America’s…

13 years, 8 months ago

Public health risks of BPA

Dr. David Dausey, Director of the Mercyhurst Institute for Public Health(start time: 5:50). We Coloradoans pride ourselves on our healthy habits — ea…

13 years, 8 months ago

Planetary Sciences Budget // Curiosity’s RAD

Donald HasslerCuriosity’s RAD (start time 7:14). To design a successful manned mission to Mars, we’ll have to know a lot about the radiation environm…

13 years, 8 months ago