How On Earth

Pseudoscience // Conservation

Filed under Episodes by Joel Parker on April 5, 2011 at 10:46 pm {no comments}

Welcome to a special edition of How on Earth, done in conjunction with the Conference on World Affairs, which is being held this week on the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus. Our two guests are participants in the Conference on World Affairs. This first part of the show is Conference Panel 2051 titled “Pseudoscience”, with guest Seth Shostak. Dr. Shostak is a Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, in Mountain View, California. Our second guest is Larry Schweiger is president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, the largest conservation organization in the U.S. We talk with him about conservation and environmental policy.

Hosts: Joel Parker and Susan Moran
Producer and Engineer: Joel Parker

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Ocean thermal energy//Climate and drought in the Rockies

Filed under Episodes by Tom McKinnon on March 29, 2011 at 4:19 pm {one comment}

Ocean Thermal Energy Plant Schematic

Our live guests are consultant Dr. Robert Cohen and CU scientist Kristen Averyt. Dr. Cohen discusses ocean thermal energy — a method to harvest some of the almost limitless solar energy captured daily by the oceans. Dr. Averyt surveys the future of the Intermountain West as we increase temperature and put increasing population pressure on a dwindling water supply.

Producer: Tom McKinnon
Co-hosts: Tom McKinnon and Susan Moran
Engineer: Breanna Draxler
Headlines: Ted Burnham and Breanna Draxler

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:59 — 22.0MB)

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Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Reactor Accident

Filed under Episodes by Tom McKinnon on March 22, 2011 at 12:09 pm {one comment}

Fukushima Dai-ichi reactor schematic drawing

In-studio guests Jeff King, Director of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Program at the Colorado School of Mines, and Len Ackland, Co-Director of the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, discuss the recent nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan. We look at the accident itself and how it might impact the future of nuclear power in the United States.

Producer: Tom McKinnon
Co-hosts: Tom McKinnon and Tom Yulsman
Engineer: Ted Burnham

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:45 — 21.8MB)

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Moonwalking with Einstein // Pledge Drive Show

Filed under Episodes by Shelley Schlender on March 16, 2011 at 2:03 pm {no comments}

In this Spring Pledge Drive Show, we share an update on the crisis in Japan from Kathleen Tierney of CU-Boulder’s Natural Hazards Center, and then Joel Parker interviews Joshua Foer, author of the runaway bestseller, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. (the full interview can be found here)

Hosts: Joel Parker, Ted Burnham, Breanna Draxler, Tom McKinnon, Shelley Schlender

Show Producer: Joel Parker & Shelley Schlender

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:29 — 28.0MB)

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Scientific Citizen Astronauts // Scientific Performance Art

Filed under Episodes by Joel Parker on March 8, 2011 at 3:56 pm {no comments}

Scientists may soon ride along on "tourist" suborbital flights to do research.

This week on How On Earth, we talk with two Boulder researchers, Dan Durda and Cathy Olkin, who are training to become “scientist astronauts” on some of the first suborbital space flights provided by private companies in the post-shuttle era (extended interview available here). We also hear about a show performed by Michelle Ellsworth, and developed in collaboration with scientist Rob Guralnick,that presents science using dance and theater performance art.

Hosts: Joel Parker, Breanna Draxler

Producer: Joel Parker

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:36 — 23.4MB)

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

Filed under Episodes by Shelley Schlender on March 1, 2011 at 6:53 pm {no comments}

Boulder Math Scores - How they rank statewide (from schoolview.org)

In honor of KGNU’s Kid’s Week, we go to the Boulder County Science Fair with How on Earth’s Tom McKinnon. In turns out three of the five students Tom interviewed before the judging began ended up as winners at the science show! Then, we look at CSAPs-Colorado’s Student Assessment Program. That style of standardized test for Reading, Writing, Math and Science is being phased out, in favor of The Colorado Growth Model that’s so innovative, it’s being adopted in several other states. How on Earth’s Shelley Schlender interviews cognitive scientist Bill Bonk, who’s on the team developing the Colorado Growth Model, which you can see at schoolview.org.

Hosts: Joel Parker and Tom McKinnon

Producer: Shelley Schlender

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:49 — 27.3MB)

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

Filed under Episodes by Tom McKinnon on February 22, 2011 at 11:39 am {no comments}

Ted Burnham inteviews CU PhD student Christine Fanchiang on her role in helping the BioServe program prepare experiments for a ride on the Space Shuttle.

Tom McKinnon talks to Beth Beckel, an Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Specialist with Boulder County EnergySmart Service. Beth tells us how this new county program can help homeowners and renters save money, increase indoor comfort, and help the environment. Click here for the EnergySmart portion of HOE.

Hosts: Ted Burnham and Tom McKinnon

Producer: Tom McKinnon

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:35 — 16.2MB)

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CU Medical Professor Shares Love of Science

Filed under Episodes by Shelley Schlender on February 15, 2011 at 12:10 pm {no comments}

CU Medical Professor John Cohen. Image courtesy of John Cohen.

This week we’ll feature CU Medical School Immunologist John Cohen, who has just received the American Association for the Advancement of Science top award for promoting public understanding of Science. In addition to teaching at the Medical School, Cohen is the founder of Mini Med and the lead “disorganizer” of the Denver Cafe Sci. We’ll also talk with Emory University researcher Zixu Mao about a new link between Parkinson’s disease and the health of the mitochondria within a cell, and we’ll hear from BBC Science in Action about some top choices in Europe for new Astronomy pursuits.

Hosts: Joel Parker, Susan Moran

Producer: Shelley Schlender

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:29 — 26.9MB)

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Front range water / Kepler planet-hunter

Filed under Episodes by Susan Moran on February 8, 2011 at 4:41 pm {no comments}

Rocks at Lake Mead show the drop in water levels from the high-water mark. (Image courtesy of Flickr user ChrisMRichards.)

Our two features for this week’s show: Susan Moran interviewed Joel Smith, principal at Stratus Consulting in Boulder, who has been helping the city adapt to climate change—in particular, by smartly managing its water supply; and Tom Yulsman interviewed John Troeltzsch, the Kepler mission program manager for Boulder-based Ball Aerospace, which built one of the key instruments for the mission, as well as the spacecraft itself.

Cohosts: Susan Moran, Tom Yulsman

Producer: Susan Moran

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:54 — 21.9MB)

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From Jars to the Stars / Plants moving uphill

Filed under Episodes by Joel Parker on January 25, 2011 at 2:46 pm {no comments}

Artist's rendering of the Deep Impact spacecraft encountering a comet. Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/UMD/Pat Rawlings.

Our guest this week is Todd Neff, who was a science reporter for Boulder’s Daily Camera newspaper and is author of a new book, From Jars to the Stars: How Ball Came to Build a Comet-Hunting Machine, about the history of Ball Aerospace. Neff joins us to speak about that history and the challenges Ball faced when designing and building the Deep Impact spacecraft that intentionally collided with a comet in 2005. We also hear from Jon Stewart of the BBC’s Science in Action about how climate change is actually driving plants downhill.

Hosts: Joel Parker, Ted Burnham

Producer: Joel Parker

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:06 — 23.0MB)

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Pseudoscience // Conservation

Ocean thermal energy//Climate and drought in the Rockies

Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Reactor Accident

Moonwalking with Einstein // Pledge Drive Show

Scientific Citizen Astronauts // Scientific Performance Art

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

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

CU Medical Professor Shares Love of Science

Front range water / Kepler planet-hunter

From Jars to the Stars / Plants moving uphill

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