The KGNU Science Show
SOLO: Building a Remarkable Life of Your Own. CU Boulder Professor, Behavioral Economist and book author Peter McGraw uses statistical data and personal anecdotes to explain the growing worldwide trend for adults to live “Solo.”
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Show Producer and Host: Shelley Schlender
Executive Producer: Susan Moran
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Wildfire smoke has marred the Front Range in recent weeks, due to Megafires that are likely to become more frequent. And more smoke is likely.
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (Starts 00:00) Beth Bennett speaks with author John Vaillant about the Canadian firestorm that forced 100,000 people to run for their lives . . . and why firestorms like this are becoming more common. (For extended version, go here)
Smokey Skies (Starts 15:00) The Front Range is getting eye-stinging smoke from wildfires over 1,000 miles away . . . last week, from Canada, and this week, likely from California, according to the Colorado Smoke Blog. University of Utah Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Derek Mallia speaks with Rocky Mountain Community Radio Director, Maeve Conran, about why wildfire smoke travels so far, and how people can protect themselves from its toxic effects.
Host/Producer: Shelley Schlender
Additional Contributions: Beth Bennett and Maeve Conran
Executive Producer: Susan Moran
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Matt Johnson of Namaste Solar and Stu Cummings of Go Electric Colorado share climate friendly ways to keep your home power going, even if power from your utility suddenly goes out. It’s a discussion spurred by April’s massive power outages, when Xcel Energy Colorado abruptly shut off power to over 150,000 Denver Metro homes, citing concerns that downed power lines might spark a wildfire.
Hosts: Shelley Schlender, Esther Frost
Producer: Shelley Schlender
Executive Producer: Shelley Schlender
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Gold Lab Symposium on Science and Health. (starts 6:40) Boulder scientist and entrepreneur, Larry Gold, shares a sneak preview of this year’s Gold Lab Symposium at CU-Boulder Muenzinger Auditorium this Thursday and Friday. This year’s symposium focuses on Pain, Culture and Intelligence.
The symposium includes discussion of the paper, Organ aging signatures in the plasma proteome track health and disease
CU-Wizards (starts 1:00) and the upcoming show with CU-Boulder Nobel Prize Winner Eric Cornell
Scott Falci – Denver Neurosurgeon (starts 2:45) and the quest to solve suicidal pain in people who have been paralyzed. Falci will speak live at the Gold Lab Symposium.
Executive & Show Producer: Shelley Schlender
Additional Contributions: Joel Parker
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Rising Voices Changing Coasts – Indigenuity Science leader Daniel Wildcat, talks about the Rising Voices/Changing Coasts symposium taking place this week Boulder. The symposium connects Indigenous Leaders with climate scientists to solve pressing climate and environmental challenges..
Science Moab – Our “sister science program” features two Native American students, who tap the wisdom of Western scientists and Native American elders as they explore desert biocrusts and how to clean up uranium mines. Go here for the full interview.
Executive & Show Producer: Shelley Schlender
Additional Contributions: Esther Frost, Benita Lee, Science Moab
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:54 — 37.0MB)
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Seahorses (starts 4:10) Science Writer Till Hein explains his new book, The Curious World of Seahorses: The Life and Lore of a Marine Marvel.
Also in this episode, we share this week’s DomeFest West at CU-Boulder’s Fiske Planetarium (starts 2:00). And we share congratulations to three new CU-Boulder members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. (starts 1:00)
Executive Producer & Show Producer: Shelley Schlender
Additional Contributions: Esther Franke, Joel Parker
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Colorado – The Quantum State: We speak with Corban Tillemann-Dick about how Colorado has emerged as a world leader in Quantum Technologies. Tillemann-Dick will speak at CU-Boulder’s Conference on World Affairs, Thursday, 10:30, at the UMC Central Ballroom. Tillemann-Dick heads up Elevate Quantum, a consortium of over 85 quantum-focused organizations in Colorado and the Mountain West. He’s also the founder and a CEO of the Denver company, Maybell Quantum. It’s named after the tiny town of Maybell, Colorado, which holds the record for the coldest temperature ever recorded in Colorado – Minus 61 Degrees Fahrenheit. Maybell Quantum honors the little town’s record-breaking cold with a refrigerator the company calls “The Icebox” Quantum computers can only operate at the incredibly cold temperature of -441 F. Maybell Quantum’s Icebox” is designed to help quantum processors stay that supercold – which is one of the many keys to unlocking the quantum breakthroughs up ahead.
Show Producer, Executive Producer and Host: Shelley Schlender
Additional Contributions: Pam Johnson
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:56 — 37.0MB)
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In this Spring Pledge Drive show, we talk with CU-Boulder professor and behavioral economist Peter McGraw about his new book, Solo: Building a Remarkable Life of your own. The book is also available through KGNU for listeners who give a donation to support this non-commercial, community radio station.
Executive Producer: Joel Parker
Show Producer/Engineer: Shelley Schlender
Hosts: Shelley Schlender/Susan Moran
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Boulder native and wildlife photographer John Weller talks about his efforts to save The Ross Sea in Antarctica. The Ross Sea is the world’s largest Marine Protected Area. Weller’s photobooks and documentary films have been a big part of explaining why this area is special, and why protecting it is a crucial part of restoring health of all world oceans. This show also includes John Weller on a hike with Boulder Naturalist Steve Jones and the Boulder Audubon Teen Naturalists, and discussion about why recent CU-Bouldeer research about rising carbon dioxide, and how it increases ocean acidity warns of disaster ahead the small shrimp-like krill at the bottom of the food chain, as well as for whales, penguins . . . and people . . . at the food chain’s top.
Host/Producer: Shelley Schlender
Executive Producer: Joel Parker
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Ibogaine for Traumatic Brain Injury – The Science journal Nature has published a small case study about Special Forces veterans who suffer from traumatic brain injury . . . they report good results from one single dose of the illegal psychedelic Ibogaine . . . with careful supervision.
Ibogaine – Huberman Lab discussion with Nolan Williams (Starts 3:45) Stanford scientists discuss therapeutic use of Ibogaine.
Ibogaine – Boulder Therapist Andrew Linares (Starts 7:00) shares his experiences working with special forces veterans who are taking Ibogaine at a clinic in Mexico, where it is a legal drug.
Lynx Habitat battle this Wednesday (starts 1:00) Denver’s US 10th District Court of Appeals will hear a case about U.S. Forest Service plans for environmental rollbacks in southern Colorado’s Rio Grande National Forest. They plan to log beetle-killed trees -which may disrupt old growth forest that the endangered lynx needs. Environmentalists are pushing for more study about the impact of these plans.
Ibogaine Song by Lord Ekomy Ndong
Host/Producer/Engineer: Shelley Schlender
Executive Producer: Joel Parker
Contributors: Beth Bennett
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