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1

Silent Sky // Gold Lab Symposium

2

A Longer Healthier Life

3

The Loneliness Epidemic – CSU Researcher Natalie Pennington

4

Forest as Superorganism: What it means to Clearcut.

5

Buy Now Pay Later – Enticement or Addiction?

6

Women’s Health Pt. III: Menopause & the Brain

7

A Brain Circuit That Switches Acute to Chronic Pain

8

Conserving Imperiled Prairie Dogs, Raptors & Their Grasslands

9

Pollinator Power & Precarity

10

The Scale of the Universe

11

Winter Recreation in a Warmer World

12

What do Grasslands Have to do with Climate Change?

13

Women’s Health Pt. II: Heart Health

14

Women’s Health Pt. I: Menopause, etc.

15

Hepatitis B Vaccination: Just the Facts

16

Water Your Winter Trees

17

Improving Law Enforcement Behavior through Artificial Intelligence

18

Colorado’s Wildlife Action Plan, etc.: Pt. II

19

Colorado’s Wildlife Action plan: Pt. I

20

Coral: Past, Present, Future

21

Wind: It’s Past & Future

22

World Domination…by Slime Molds?

23

Critical Earth Minerals Hiding in Plain Sight – Elizabeth Holley

24

Better Steam//CU-Boulder at World Climate Conference

25

Megadroughts Could Cause World Wide Dustbowls — CSU Melinda Smith Explains

26

Winter is Coming: Why Leaves Fall

27

Peak Performance: Revisiting a Classic

28

Into The Unknown (Part 2)

29

Into The Unknown (Part 1)

30

Autumn Insects and their Songs

31

From Habitat Loss to Repairing Connectivity

32

Science Journalism with Miles O’Brien // Acetaminophen and Autism

33

What About All Those Body Products We Buy?

34

Menopause, Hormone Therapy, Science

35

The (ever-changing) Scoop on Vaccines

36

Climate Change, Astronomy, Canine Astronauts

37

Bill McKibben – Here Comes the Sun

38

Wildfires in a Changing Climate

39

Climate Science, Human Lives at Risk

40

The Vera Rubin Observatory

41

50 Years of Open Space! // Heart Attack and Stroke Risk from Common Sugar Substitute

42

The Tumor Microbiome Can Affect Cancer Survival

43

Climate Science, Cutbacks, Litigation

44

How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence by Matt Richtel

45

Bird Conservancy of the Rockies – Eric DeFonso

46

Viruses are Us!

47

2025 Graduation Special (part 2)

48

GLP-1 and Blindness

49

Animal Pandemics?

50

Saving Weather Forecasting, Climate Science

51

Birds at Risk

52

Boulder Cardiologist Nelson Trujillo – Extended Version

53

GoldLab Founder Larry Gold – Extended Interview

54

2025 Graduation Special (part 1)

55

Mutualism in Nature

56

De-funding NIST’s Atomic Spectroscopy Group

57

The Lucy Mission

58

Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America.

59

April Foolish Science

60

NEPA, Wildlife, Lands Under Threat

61

Measles: To Vaccinate or Not?

62

This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist’s Path from Grief to Wonder

63

Train Wolves AND Humans to Coexist

64

Tom Cech: The Catalyst

65

Tackling Landfill Methane Emissions

66

How a Soil Bacterium Can Affect Mental and Physical Health

67

Decarbonizing Cement Production

68

Gang Science – David Pyrooz

69

What’s Up with the Polio Vaccine?

70

Tackling PFAS, From Wastewater to Tap Water

71

Opiate Epidemic Update from 2024

72

Science Stories from 2024

73

Ibogaine // Ice Cores // Neurospsychologist June Gruber & Awe Walks

74

Move Your Body!

75

Move Your Body – Extended Version

76

Plastic Pollution: Sources, Impacts, Solutions

77

Xmas Bird Count

78

Cocoa Flavonoids // Science of Happiness

79

IF Federal Environmental Protections Go Away . . . EDF Speaks Out.

80

Where is Science Going in the Next 4 Years?

81

Europa Clipper

82

COP16 Biodiversity Conference

83

Wildfire Mushrooms for Wildfire Mitigation

84

CU Boulder Nobel Prize Winner Tom Cech & “The Catalyst”

85

Emotions, Beliefs, Politics

86

Eight-Legged Wonders: The Surprising Lives of Spiders

87

The Carbon Footprint of Food

88

Hoofbeats – Horses & Human History//Colorado Wolf Family ReCaptured

89

Colorado Wolves Recapture – Marc Bekoff Extended Interview

90

The Emotional Lives of Animals

91

SOLO: Building a Remarkable Life of Your Own – Peter McGraw

92

Science from The Moon

93

Invasive Weed Management in Boulder County

94

Why Do Animals Talk?

95

Fire Resistant Homes

96

Wildfires & Smokey Skies

97

Curious Patterns of Chickadees

98

Rangeland Restoration – A Science Moab Show

99

Our Moon

100

“Compostable” Product Truths & Lies

101

The Ins and Outs of Cheese

102

Green Power for when the Power Goes Out

103

The Dirt on Composting

104

Why a Parliament of Owls?

105

Bees and Other Bugs

106

Birds & Habitat Preservation

107

Gold Lab Symposium – 2024 – Health, Intelligence & Culture

108

Indigenous + Ingenuity = Indigenuity

109

The Curious World of Seahorses

110

A History of Wolves

111

Science of Deathbed Visions

112

Colorado – The Quantum State

113

Solar Eclipse 2024!

114

Colorado River: new deals, old tensions

115

Astronomy Highlights: Habitable Worlds Observatory, Impostor Phenomenon

116

SOLO: Building a Remarkable Life of Your Own

117

Astronomy Highlights: 3D Astronomy, AI in Astrophysics

118

Deep-sea Coral Reefs // Mineral-Mining

119

Sleepless not just in Seattle

120

Myths and Facts about Plastic Recycling

121

John Weller – Saving Antarctica

122

Air Pollution+Maternal Health

123

Astronomy Highlights: Stellar Magnetic Fields, Zooniverse

124

Traumatic Brain Injury & Ibogaine – Andrew Linares

125

A New Year and the Same Old Environmental Issues

126

Science Stories from 2023

127

STEM Ed: Improving access for the blind, etc.

128

Chronic Pain: A New Approach

129

COP28 Climate Summit: Pledges & Realities

130

Teen Raptor Survey//Gaia Theory for 21st Century

131

Ghosts of Thanksgiving Past

132

From Sewage to Planet Savior?

133

Naming Birds – with Boulder Naturalist Steve Jones

134

The Little Book of Aliens

135

Climate Change Maladaptations

136

Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence

137

Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence (excerpts) / Fund Drive

138

BirdCast Bird Migration Forecasting

139

Tackling Plastic Pollution

140

Artificial Intelligence for Police Body Cameras

141

Road Ecology // Wildlife Crossings

142

Hummingbirds and Master Bander Steve Bouricius

143

Western Water

144

West Nile Virus // Mosquito Borne Diseases

145

Welcoming Biodiversity Back To Cities

146

Memory-boosting via Multivitamins?

147

The Science of Sex in Sports – Women Athletes

148

Bears: Beloved & Imperiled

149

Superconductors for Better Energy

150

Biomechanics for Dummies

151

Race Science: Then & Now

152

Boulder Society for Scientific Exploration

153

Fire in a Hotter World

154

2023 Graduation Special (part 2)

155

Honeybee Trials and Tribulations

156

Gold Lab Symposium on Science and Health

157

2023 Graduation Special (part 1)

158

Chasing Heirloom Seeds with the Seed Detective

159

Green Energy & Nuclear Power

160

Your Brain On (and off) Chronic Pain: Part I

161

Easter Candy Risks & Real Easter Daisies

162

How to Make STEM Better

163

Water Reuse for the Arid West

164

Mankind Owes Its Success on Earth to Decimated Forests

165

A Less Stressful Life- in Seven Days?

166

AI or not AI, that is the question — ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Human World

167

Colorado Environmental Film Festival

168

Music on the Brain

169

Mountain Lions in Northern Colorado

170

James Webb Space Telescope (Part 2)

171

Animal Creativity

172

New Alzheimer’s Drug . . . and Dale Bredesen Challenge

173

Colorado’s Solid Power Car Battery (and other Breakthrough Batteries)

174

The Health of the US Public Health System

175

Top Science Stories for 2022

176

James Webb Space Telescope (Part 1)

177

Looking for a Good Night’s Sleep?

178

Finding Home in a Changing Climate

179

Can Your Microbiome Protect You Against Covid?

180

Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World

181

Recycling: Obstacles and Progress

182

Song of the Cell: Siddhartha Mukherjee’s New Book

183

Clean Water Act 50 years later

184

Hearing & Hearing Aids

185

Sweet in Tooth and Claw // Fund Drive Show

186

Pollution Impacts on Gut Microbiome // Folding Proteins

187

Beavers: Engineers for Our Planet

188

The Amazing…Honeybee!

189

Nature Wants Us to Be Fat – Rick Johnson MD

190

Nature Wants Us To Be Fat – Extended Version

191

Testosterone – Bane or Benefit?

192

Colorado River Basin Crisis: Pt. II

193

What’s New in Climate?

194

DNA Superconductors // Western Rewilding // What Your Food Ate

195

Alcohol, Brain Damage & Genetics

196

Colorado River Basin Crisis

197

Salmon Wars Part 2: Farm-Raised LAND Salmon

198

Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish – Part 1

199

All About Mars

200

Birds and Dopamine // Nature Wants Us To Fat

201

Summer Solstice Hike // On the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid

202

Skin Cancer // Methane Leaks // Engineering Happiness // Black holes

203

Keeping Your Heart Healthy – Off the Western Medicine Track

204

2022 Graduation Special (part 2)

205

2022 Graduation Special (part 1)

206

Gold Lab Symposium and DeepMind/Alphafold

207

Brains in Space // Climate Grief // Gold Lab Symposium

208

The Queen of Fats: Omega-3

209

Climate- & Pollinator-Conscious Planting

210

Climate Change: A Laughing Matter?

211

The Last Stargazers, Part 2

212

The Last Stargazers, Part 1

213

Sounds Wild and Broken

214

KGNU Fund Drive with The Last Stargazers

215

Walking Doesn’t Have to Get Old

216

Avalanche Accidents — Who Dies?

217

Green Walls // Drones Study Marshall Fire // Volunteering to GET COVID

218

The Science of Heartbreak

219

Climate Change and Local Fires

220

30th Anniversary Show

221

Top Ten from 2021

222

Defy Aging // Green Recycling // Corona (not virus) News

223

The Fentanyl Epidemic: Why It’s Growing and Some Solutions

224

Can Cattle Reduce Climate Change?

225

Wild Strawberries, Wild Turkeys & Farewell to Bernie Rollin

226

Building Bones without Drugs

227

It’s A Dog’s World!

228

The Natural Funeral

229

Microscopic ‘antennae’ use quantum mechanics to harvest heat energy

230

Beloved Beasts // Fund Drive Show

231

Funnel Web Spiders at Sawhill Ponds

232

New Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease

233

Ready for RoundUp?

234

Wes Marshall – Love Cars LESS

235

Future of Cars – Shelby American Collection//Colorado DIgital ID

236

My Colorado Vaccination App – Extended Version

237

A New Way to Measure Aging

238

Psychedelic Mushrooms & Depression

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239

Dismal US Mortality Data – Ryan Masters

240

Emerging World: A Road Map for a Better World

241

UFO Report – Carol Cleland

242

Fitness in mid-life and the new Alzheimer drug

243

Energy from Hot Air – Amina Belkadi & Garret Moddel

244

Water in the Arid West

245

Skunk Canyon Songbirds // Longmont Beavers

246

What’s Your Genetic Risk?

247

GoldLab Symposium 2021 – Big Data and Healthcare

248

2021 Graduation Special

249

A Tour of Mycotopia

250

Burn- A New Look at Our Metabolism

251

252

The Alchemy of Us- How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another

253

Good Fat is Brown!

254

Honeybees: Biology & Conservation

255

Can Covid-19 Affect Your Mitochondria?

256

Tom Johnson – Aging & Healthspan & Dementia

257

Science On Stage

258

AKG & “Healthspan” — Gordon Lithgow

259

The Case for the Ketogenic Diet – A Talk with Gary Taubes

260

Recycling Lithium-ion Batteries

261

Scratch & Sniff COVID Test // Ice Age BONE Fire

262

Covid Vaccine Update

263

Octopus Wild

264

CU COVID Testing Update // Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever & Climate Change

265

The Reindeer Chronicles: Stories of Environmental Regeneration

266

It’s All in Your Mouth: Exploring Holistic Dentistry

267

Andrea Tilstra – Deaths of Despair – or not

268

Clean – The New Science of Skin

269

The Shale Revolution: Weld County’s Golden Goose- Part Two

270

The Shale Revolution: Weld County’s Golden Goose- Part One

271

COVID-19 CU-BOULDER – OFF CAMPUS PARTIES – SUPERSPREADERS

272

Testing wastewater for COVID-19

273

Keeping Indoors COVID-Safe – CU Aerosol Experts Shelly Miller & Jose Luis Jimenez

274

CU Boulder – COVID Test Innovations

275

The Neuroscience of Pain

276

COVID-19: The Evidence for Aerosol Transmission & Implications for Containment

277

Salmonella Biofilms — Inside of Us

278

Formation of Pluto and Its Ocean

279

New Method for Measuring CO2 from Fossil Fuels

280

The Corral Bluffs’ Fossil Discovery: Earth’s Comeback Story

281

Vaccine Update // General Anesthetic Poses Alcohol Abuse Risk for Kids

282

The Nature of Science // Biology is Everywhere!

283

Carl Safina – Becoming Wild (Animal Culture)

284

Do Masks Protect from Corona Virus // AgriSolar in Boulder

285

2020 Graduation Special

286

Antibody Testing // Why is the FDA Cracking Down on Raw Milk Cheese?

287

Ron Rosedale – Leptin, IL-6 and Cytokine Storms (Extended Version)

288

Scientists Help a City Run COVID Tests // A Diet to Reduce Cytokine Storms

289

Corona Virus: Therapies and Transmission

290

CoVid19 Update // Beer Chemistry Redux

291

COVID-19: ACE, Targeted Therapies, Old & New Medicines

292

Miracle Brew (encore feature) // COVID-19 // Drying Towels

293

CoVid19 Update // Sleep and Your Immune System

294

Peer Pressure can Influence Your Carbon Footprint // CoVid19 Update

295

Ice Age Bone Fire // Backcountry Skiing & Wildlife

296

Space Mining

297

Stem Cell Science // Decoding Science

298

The Science of Hearing and Hearing Aids

299

Who Pays for Climate Change?

300

Ketogenic Diet and Muscle and Memory

301

Climate Watch // Extreme Conservation

302

Top Stories of the Decade

303

Climate (COP25) Summit Review

304

Cognitive Brain Development in Adolescents, Part 2

305

Voyager Passes Heliopause//Xmas Bird Count

306

COP25 Global Climate Summit

307

Buzz: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers

308

Randall Munroe Explains “How To”

309

Almost Human – Julius the Chimpanzee Caught Between Two Worlds (FULL INTERVIEW)

310

Pledge Drive Show – Almost Human: The Story of Julius, the Chimpanzee

311

At the Intersection of Science and Art with Jorge Perez-Gallego

312

Alzhieimer’s Drug Reverses Brain Damage Caused by Binge Drinking

313

Amazon Burning — Jennifer Balch

314

Tackling Ozone Pollution

315

Lights Out Denver – Saving Birds and Energy

316

Creative (Climate) Communications

317

Edible Bugs

318

Great Lunar Expedition for Everyone

319

Marc Bubbs & The New Science of Athletic Performance

320

Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

321

PUNCH-ing the Sun

322

Cancer, Immunity and the Future of a Cure

323

Yeast & Entropy

324

Toxic Air’s Health Risks

325

Paternity Science

326

A Walking Life // MOSAIC Arctic Expedition

327

2019 Graduation Special

328

Gold Lab Symposium 2019

329

Plastic Pollution & Solutions

330

The Nuclear Option for Decarbonization

331

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

332

An Astronomical Journey with Michelle Thaller

333

Pesticides and Health Impacts

334

This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution

335

The Goodness Paradox – Full Interview

336

The Goodness Paradox // Pledge Drive

337

Tagging the Bugs that Carry Antibiotic Resistance

338

MRI Improvement by Standardization

339

HOLOSCENES / Little Boxes: Science On a Sphere

340

The Science of Exercise Recovery

341

Characterizing Microbial Communities

342

Composting & Carbon Farming

343

Wisdom of the Body

344

A Tale of Two Missions: OSIRIS-REx and New Horizons

345

Soft Robotic Muscles

346

Titan Talk with Sarah Hörst

347

National Assessment on Climate Change

348

Never Home Alone by Rob Dunn

349

Baking Soda for Autoimmune Disease // Crickets for the Gut

350

Nature and Health

351

Living in a World of Thinking Machines

352

Front Range Fracking // Planet+Human Health

353

Ketotarian & Pledge Drive Show

354

Regenerative Medicine #1: Primer

355

Eager Beavers

356

How Skin Begins // Dr. Dan

357

Cricket Chorus // Foliage Science

358

Saving Summer: The National Wildlife Federation Report

359

Email Anxiety // Food Waste

360

Low Carb & Lifespan//Down syndrome & Inflammation

361

Aerogel as Clear as Glass//New Science Standards for Colorado Schools

362

Dogs for Diabetics

363

Vascular Disease & Aging Part 2

364

What’s Happening Inside Your Arteries?

365

Wildfire Health Impacts // Detained Immigrant Children Suffer Medical Woes

366

Science of Psychedelics

367

What do Dogs Think?

368

Junk Raft // The Green Reaper

369

Mitochondria and Your Health

370

How Food Affects Your Brain

371

Ocean Conservation: MPAs

372

Michael Pollan: How to Change Your Mind (with psychedelics)

373

Chasing New Horizons, continued

374

Chasing New Horizons // GoldLab Symposium

375

Chasing New Horizons – full extended interview

376

2018 Graduation Special (part 2)

377

2018 Graduation Special (part 1)

378

City Nature Challenge BioBlitz Citizen Science enhanced with iNaturalist

379

Cancer Biology // Oil&Gas Health Impacts

380

Astrobiology and the Anthropocene

381

Geoengineering the Climate

382

The Moral Arc – Extended Interview with Michael Shermer

383

MDMA for PTSD – Extended Interview with Karen, PTSD Survivor

384

MDMA for PTSD – Extended Interview with Marcella Ot’Alora – Principal Investigator

385

MDMA for PTSD – Psychiatrist Will Vanderveer

386

Enlightenment Now

387

Enlightenment Now // Pledge Drive Teaser

388

Urban Air Pollution: A new culprit

389

The Starmus Festival

390

Spaceport Earth

391

Plastic Pollution in Ocean

392

The Longevity Diet

393

Science on Tap

394

Fragrance Free – Roger the Barber // Shelly Miller

395

Miracle Brew – The Amazing Science (and Art) of Brewing Beer

396

2017 Look Back – 2018 Look Forward

397

Keto for Cancer, part 2

398

Healthy . . . But Missing Gut Microbes

399

Ketogenic Diet for Treatment of Cancer//BBC Science in Action

400

The Unnatural World

401

Lancet Countdown on Climate Change

402

Tamed and Untamed: Essays on the Animal Kingdom

403

Mutant Proteins // Future Technologies

404

Nuclear Tests and the Van Allen Belts

405

Antibiotics & Your Microbiome

406

Committed Warming

407

The Cassini Mission to Saturn

408

Aging Research Part 2

409

Biofuels Tradeoffs

410

Climate Change and Extinctions Following an Asteroid Impact

411

Boulder Firestone Monorail // Regeneration & Eclipse photo-bombing

412

Stay Young – If You’re a Worm

413

Mortality Trends in America // Life Expectancy in America

414

Chasing Shadows – Stellar Occultations and the Outer Solar System

415

Space Shield for Satellites // Virtual Colonoscopy

416

The Alien Hunter & SETI

417

Is Your Oral Microbiome Affected by Your Genes?

418

The American Eclipse of 1878

419

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome // Renewables

420

Protecting Pollinators // Testing Drinking Water

421

2017 Graduation Special (part 2)

422

2017 Graduation Special (part 1)

423

Treating Cancer Metabolically

424

Gold Lab Symposium // Marc Bekoff Animals Agenda

425

A New Theory of Cancer

426

500 Women Scientists // Tracking Methane Leaks with Google Street View Cars

427

New Adventures in Astronomy with Gerrit Verschuur

428

Long Now Foundation in Colorado // Wild Boulder Citizen Science

429

Health Impacts of Oil/Gas Drilling

430

Your Baby’s Microbiome

431

Nature Fix 2 // Case Against Sugar

432

Eclipse 2017

433

Of Wasps and Figs

434

The Nature Fix

435

Citizen Science

436

Clinical Trials Test MDMA as PTSD Treatment

437

Secret Life of Fat

438

American Gut Project

439

Earth in Human Hands – Shaping our Planet’s Future

440

Earth in Human Hands – extended interview

441

Forensic Plant Science: CSI for Real!

442

2016 Retrospective

443

Where is climate science research heading?

444

Biodiversity Matters // Scientists Implore Trump

445

Colonizing Mars?

446

Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets

447

Regenerative Economics//Logicomix

448

Max Boykoff – Global Climate Talks – Moving Ahead

449

Suggestible You: How Our Brain Tricks Us

450

I Contain Multitudes–Our Microbes, Ourselves

451

Pledge Drive//Interview with Ed Yong

452

Denver Permaculture Guild//Ron Rosedale Explains Autophagy

453

The Rosetta Mission

454

Alzheimer’s Reversal – Extended Interview with Dale Bredesen

455

Alzheimer’s Reversal: ApoE4.info and Dr. Dale Bredesen

456

Personalized Medicine from Genome Sequencing

457

Gregory Benford – Science Fiction/Fact and Starshot

458

Methane Emissions From Natural Gas

459

Lessons From Flint’s Lead-In-Water Crisis

460

Zika Update

461

The Keeling Curve//Electric Airplanes//Moth Parties

462

Impacts of Fracking

463

Exploring your DNA // Cellular Innards Revealed

464

Toward Sustainable Agriculture

465

Quantum Dot Antibiotics // Shrinking Ozone Hole

466

Pollinators Matter // Denver BioLabs

467

Soccermatics // Pledge Drive Show

468

Carbon Farming // Light Pollution

469

Diatoms: Ecology and Aesthetics

470

Cell Phones & Cancer // Narcotics Prolong Chronic Pain

471

Our Microbes, Ourselves: Soil Bacteria Treat Stress Disorders

472

GoldLab Symposium: Standing Together—Health Care for Our Common Good

473

2016 Graduation Special (part 2)

474

2016 Graduation Special (part 1)

475

Foundations for Leaders Organizing for Water and Sustainability // Quantified Self

476

The Most Perfect Thing: A Bird’s Egg

477

A History of Water in Colorado’s Front Range

478

Across the Universe – You Can’t Get There From Here

479

Prairie Wildfire // Predicting Heat Waves // Mapping Nitrogen Pollution

480

The Science of Mind Over Body

481

Pledge Drive: Mind-Body Science

482

STEM Research // Sex in the Sea

483

First Detection of Gravitational Waves

484

How the Glucocorticoid Receptor can Treat Asthma, Cancer, and More

485

Winter Stars // Pollinators and Insecticides

486

Electric Car Road Trips // Renewable Energy Nation . . . in 15 Years

487

Using the Microbiome to Determine Time of Death

488

Hubble Space Telescope

489

Hunter Lovins – Regenerative Economics Extended Version

490

Our Microbes, Ourselves — Special Call-in Show

491

Hunter Lovins – Regenerative Economics for the Future of Humanity

492

Climate Change and Cities

493

What You Can Do About Global Warming

494

Beyond Cop21Paris: Climate Science & Policy

495

Grad School Science

496

CUCafe // Math, Science, Intuition and CFS

497

Evolution of the Human-Horse Bond

498

Mighty Microbes in Our Gut & Soils

499

How the Brain Matures

500

Carl Safina – Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (part 2)

501

Joel Parker & Space // Carl Safina – Beyond Words

502

Are GMOs Environmentally-friendly?

503

Rock Arch Stability // Neonicotinoids and Silent Spring

504

Neurobiology of Alcohol Abuse

505

Quantum Biology: Life on The Edge // Science and Art with Monica Aiello

506

Habitat Exchanges // More Frequent Wildfires

507

Fingerprint Hand Gun // High Altitude Observatory

508

Gold King Spill, Mining Prospects

509

Global Climate Models & Climate Change

510

Historical Analysis of Agriculture and Greenhouse Gases

511

Grazing the Niobrara // Savory Institute

512

Pluto Flyby // Case of the Rickety Cossack

513

Unprocessed Food // Bee Biodiversity

514

Student Dust Counter reaches Pluto

515

Fourth Phase of Water – Extended Interview

516

The Fourth Phase of Water

517

Aging//and not aging

518

Einstein, Niels Bohr and Grandmothers…a Fairy Tale!

519

Birds v. Cats // Humor Science

520

Gold Lab Symposium//Mapping Pain in the Brain

521

Sage Grouse Saga // Ocean Health

522

Are Ketones the Key?

523

Biomimicry: A New lens on Technology and Innovation

524

Island On Fire: The Story of Laki

525

Polar Bears // Climate Scientists

526

Using Worms to Study Neurodegenerative Diseases

527

Rust: The Longest War // The Moral Arc

528

The ATLAS Institute // Firefighters and Climate Change

529

Ancestors in Our Genome

530

War of the Whales: A True Story

531

Arctic Frontiers // Wind Forecasting

532

Other Rocky Planets are Common!

533

Moonshine // Parkinson’s Network Exercise

534

The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters and Climate Change

535

Coral Climate Clues // Tropical Carbon Sink

536

Red Meat & Mice // Loren Cordain – The Paleo Diet

537

Red Meat Sugar Glycans and Inflammation – Extended Version

538

Himalayan Glacial Lakes

539

Weather Drones // The late Dr. Theo Colborn

540

Want to Save the Amazon? Think Like an Ant.

541

Animal Weapons – The Evolution of Battle (Doug Emlen)

542

Green Chemistry (extended version)

543

Green Chemistry

544

Science of Booze // Rosetta Mission

545

Frontrange Bioneers // Green Electricity or Green Money?

546

Gulp

547

Do Fathers Matter Pt. 2 // Mercury in Water

548

Do Fathers Matter?

549

Buddhist Geeks and The Future Earth Initiative

550

Living Planet Report // Finding Exoplanet Water

551

Facts and Faith: A Conversation with Katharine Hayhoe

552

Testing the Water

553

The Meaning of Wilderness // The Ocean Is Us #5: Living Underwater

554

Solar Flares — High-Tech Armageddon?

555

The Ocean is Us #4: Sustainable Seafood

556

The Ocean Is Us #3 : Marine Sanctuaries

557

Greenback Cutthroat Trout // Migraines

558

A Tough Summer Vacation

559

Rosetta // Autism & the Microbiome

560

Earth-friendly Landscaping

561

The Oso Landslide

562

The Ocean Is Us #2 : Endocrine Disruptors in Drinking Water

563

Astronomy Through the Ages

564

The Ocean Is Us #1 : Teens4Oceans – Marine Science Education

565

Caffeine and Athletics

566

Hope On Earth

567

Wireless Dawn or Electronic Silent Spring?

568

Wireless Technology – Extended Version of Interview with Frank Barnes and Katie Singer

569

Massive Stars

570

Colorado’s Science Fair Stars // Rosetta Comet Mission

571

Gold Lab // National Climate Assessment

572

Hacking Happiness

573

Baseball Vision // Emerald Ash Borer

574

NASA Visit // IPCC Report

575

Space Dust

576

Space Dust – Extended Version

577

Conquering the Energy Crisis

578

Quantum Computers

579

1964 Alaska Earthquake // Neuroscience of Dying

580

1964 Alaska Earthquake – Extended Version

581

Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You

582

Plants in Space // Relativity

583

Beringia // Dolphins & Climate Change // The Ogallala Road

584

How Native Americans Came to Be – Extended Version – Beringia

585

Tracing Methane’s Source in Drinking Water // Safe Place for Captive Wolves

586

Molecular Gastronomy

587

CO2 from the Amazon // US Smokestacks

588

Arctic Thaw // Methane Study // Bonobo Conservation

589

Newton’s Football // Strontium Clock

590

Rosetta Wakes Up // Jelly Sandwich Earth // Hospital Acquired Infections // Microbes Reduce Autism in Mice

591

Quitting smoking//Smoke and children’s health

592

2013 Was a Good Year, in Science!

593

Fairy Science // Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count

594

Fireproofing Mountain Homes // Winter Solstice

595

Big Game, Warm World // Hour of Code

596

Tesla // Octopus!

597

Engineering for Kids // Antarctica’s Ross Sea

598

Carnegie Professor of the Year // Measuring Oil and Gas Air Pollution

599

The Sports Gene // These Shining Lives

600

Salt Lake City’s Drier Future // Spruce Beetle Outbreak

601

Flood Winners & Losers // 100 Year Starship Symposium

602

Antarctica Research // The Cancer Chronicles

603

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

604

Plight of Bees // Climate and Flood

605

IPCC Assessment Report 5

606

Monarch Migration // Better Batteries

607

Boulder Science Festival // Insect Chorus Songs

608

Wildfires & Water Reservoirs // Comet ISON

609

Noise Pollution

610

Kepler’s Prospects // Oncofertility

611

Copper Might Promote Alzheimer’s – Extended Version

612

Court Orders NRC to Decide on Yucca Mountain Permit

613

Too Hot To Touch

614

Smoke Free Casinos Reduce 911 Calls // Mirrors and Water = Hydrogen Fuel

615

Buzz Aldrin’s Vision for Space//The Bees Needs

616

Fecal Microbial Transplant for C. Diff Colitis

617

World Listening Day

618

End of Night – Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light

619

Good & Bad Calories // PhD Comics

620

The Voodoo Doll Task // Drones for Climate Science

621

China’s environmental impact // 100 Year Starship

622

Bird collisions and wind energy policy

623

Cancer Drug Delivery // Mars’ Radiation Risks

624

Oh Thank You Canada: Lessons from the North on Growing Industrial Hemp

625

Palm oil and rainforest devastation

626

Larry Gold – Gold Lab Symposium

627

Brain Trust // Drought

628

Dr. David Wineland and the human side of winning the Nobel Prize

629

Mapping Pain in the Brain – CU Scientist Tor Wager

630

Conference on World Affairs Special with SETI’s Seth Shostak

631

Everything died under a broiling sky

632

The Universe Within // De-Extinction

633

Tom’s River // Making Primitive Fire

634

Neil Shubin -The Universe Within

635

Facing the Wave // Pandora’s Lunchbox

636

Facing the Wave – extended interview with Gretel Ehrlich

637

We Are the Martians

638

Parallel Universes

639

Parallel Universes – extended interview with Brian Greene

640

Bright Meteor // Dark Matter

641

U.S. Climate Report // Antarctics Sounds

642

Dr. David Wineland

643

Visindi Circus//Life on Other Planets

644

Gut Microbes and Autoimmune Disease // What’s in YOUR Gut? The American Gut Project

645

Haitian Seismologists//Changing Antarctic Climate

646

Medical Marijuana and Traffic Accidents//Ron Rosedale Critiques Body Mass Index Study

647

Metformin Lowers Blood Sugars by Blocking the Hormone Glucagon – Extended Interview with Morris Birnbaum

648

New Study on BMI (Body Mass Index) and Longevity – Critique by Dr. Ron Rosedale – Extended Interview

649

Medical Marijuana and Reduced Traffic Fatalities – Extended Interview with Mark Anderson

650

Marijuana and Pot as Substitutions – Extended Interview with Ben Crost

651

State Climatologist // Water Contamination

652

Robert Arentz – Asteroid Impact Hazards & Ball Aerospace

653

The Fat Switch – Richard Johnson MD

654

The American Gut – What’s in YOUR Gut?

655

Bernie Krause

656

Clean Tech Nation//Feedback in Climate Models

657

The Dust Bowl / Population Growth

658

Stopping Cancer in its Tracks – Telomerase Receptor Inhibition

659

The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson

660

CU Multidisciplinary Oil Production Study

661

Pledge Drive Show//Genetic-mutant Paganini

662

Boulder Nobel Science Winner//Searching for Sister Earth

663

Neanderthals//Antarctica

664

Big Waves // Omega 3 Fatty Acids

665

Colorado Drought // A More Perfect Heaven

666

Higgs-Boson: What is all the excitement about?

667

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

668

Public health risks of BPA

669

Planetary Sciences Budget // Curiosity’s RAD

670

Beer Can Science

671

Volcanoes & the Atmosphere // Traffic in Beijing

672

Global Weirdness // Institute for Social and Environmental Transition

673

Immortality – Science vs Sci Fi

674

James Rollins – Bloodline (SciFi book about immortality)

675

Tom Johnson – Extended Version

676

Geologic Carbon Sequestration // Clean Technology

677

Mountain Wildfires

678

Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

679

Engineering Happiness // The Effects of Black Holes

680

Dr. Paul Lightsey

681

Potable water//Electric vehicle infrastructure

682

Distributed Energy // Pluto’s Occultation

683

Thorium // Space Weather

684

Why Calories Count//Boulder Gold Lab Symposium

685

Proteomics and the Search for a Wellness Chip

686

Climate engineering // Jamie Williams

687

Ron Krauss: Saturated Fat and Red Meat? It Depends

688

Communicating with dolphins

689

Kinetic Sculptures Refocus the Human Perspective

690

Bees and Pesticides // Radiometers and Weather

691

Pesticides, Bees and Niwot Honey Farm’s Tom Theobald [extended version]

692

The Science of Habit Formation

693

The Science of Habit Formation [extended version]

694

The Accelerating Expansion of The Universe // Pine Bark Beetles

695

Pine Bark Beetles – Extended Interview with Jeff Mitton and Scott Ferrenberg

696

Fukushima Anniversary: global impacts one year later

697

The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess

698

Fukushima Cleanup // Space Debris

699

Fukushima Cleanup [extended version]

700

Leaky Natural Gas Wells // Measuring Glaciers and Ice Caps

701

Leaky Natural Gas Wells [extended version]

702

Boulder Robotics // Compassion

703

Snowshoe Hare // Cubelets Robotics

704

Algae oil omega-3 // Little Ice Age

705

Underwater Volcanoes // Sleep

706

20th Anniversary Science Show

707

The first KGNU science show (Jan 1992)

708

Nicotine Patches // Restoring the Desert

709

Nicotine Patches Don’t Work [extended version]

710

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

711

Clean Water Struggles // 2011’s Big Sci-Enviro-Tech Stories

712

Holiday Sci & Tech Gifts // Eating Your Heart Out?

713

Incentives for Renewable Energy//Climate Change and Biodiversity

714

Future of Electric Vehicles//Diet and Acne

715

Of Math and Wizards

716

Wild Turkeys // Light Pollution

717

Water Crisis // Maker Movement

718

Colorado & Oceans // Nitrogen & Snails

719

Urban Parks // Pythons and Heart Disease

720

National Parks: Extended interview with Jonathan Jarvis

721

National Perspective on Municipalization//Science of Fall Colors

722

Extended Interview: Richard Dawkins, The Magic of Reality

723

Post-Wild Nature//LED Lighting

724

Wildfire Science

725

We Breathe Microbes with Noah Fierer

726

Pine Beetle Kill // Plight of Sharks

727

Plight of Sharks – Extended Interview with Juliet Eilperin

728

Wind Energy

729

GMOs & Health: The Loss of Small Farms and the Rise of Immune Disorders

730

GMOs and Health – Extended Interview with Andy Liu – National Jewish Health

731

GMOs and Health – Extended Interview with Stefano Guandalini – Celiac Disease Center

732

GMOs and Health – Extended Interview with Carol Shilson, Celiac Disease Center

733

GMOs and Health – Extended Interview with Charles Benbrook, The Organic Center

734

Nitrogen pollution // Electric vehicles

735

Pluto’s Moons // Wildlife Preservation

736

Extended interview with Alan Stern

737

Lean Deli Meat vs A Big Fat Steak . . . and Water in Outer Space

738

Janos Perczel – Invisibility Cloak (Extended Version)

739

Harvard Epidemiologist Dariush Mozaffarian on Salt (extended version)

740

Tech aspects of Boulder utility municipalization

741

Music producer Tom Wasinger comments on HOE theme song entries

742

Green Tech Author // NCAR Climate Scientist

743

Ocean Acidification // Citizen Science

744

Science Education, Evolution & Creationism

745

Beekeeping in Troubled Times

746

Cell Phone Safety

747

Cell Phone Safety – Extended Version

748

Cavemen Stayed Local while Women Left Home

749

Colorado river crisis // “The Believing Brain”

750

Moonwalking with Einstein (Part 2) // Brain Evolution

751

The Future of Space Flight: Alan Stern & Elon Musk

752

Gold Lab Symposium & Fat for Stronger Muscles

753

Climate-health link//Smart grid

754

Virtual power plants//Wildfires and climate change

755

Natural Gas Boom//BP Oil Spill’s Human Toll

756

Extended interview with Anjali Bhatara

757

Theme Song Contest // Science of Music

758

Pseudoscience // Conservation

759

Ocean thermal energy//Climate and drought in the Rockies

760

Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Reactor Accident

761

Moonwalking with Einstein // Pledge Drive Show

762

Scientific Citizen Astronauts // Scientific Performance Art

763

Colorado Growth Model is Replacing CSAPs // Boulder Valley Science Fair

764

Bioastronautics at CU Bioserve // Boulder County EnergySmart energy efficiency service

765

CU Medical Professor Shares Love of Science

766

Front range water / Kepler planet-hunter

767

From Jars to the Stars / Plants moving uphill

768

Earthquakes & corruption / Astrology shake-up

769

MAVEN: Mission to Mars // Communicating geophysics