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
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
Peter McGraw cc Glenn J. Asakawa Copyright: University of Colorado
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
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
Tabernath Iboga Plant – courtesy Marco Schmidt, Wiki Commons
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 – 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 – from Endangered Species.org
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.
Soccer Headers and Brain Damage (starts 1:00) New research about long term effects of soccer heading — the practice of hitting a soccer ball with the head, indicates a brain damage risk, even without “official” concussions.
Gaia Theory for the 21st Century (starts 11:30) Martin Ogle explains Gaia Theory, Model and Metaphor for the 21st Century. He’s presenting this Thursday at the Lafayette Public Library.
Host/Producer/Engineer: Shelley Schlender Executive Producer: Susan Moran Contributors: Benita Lee
Fall bird migration is reaching its peak, with billions of birds traveling thousands of miles, mostly at night. We talk with Kyle Horton, director of Colorado State University’s AEROECO Lab, and a key member of BirdCast, which is a collaboration with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Kyle Horton shares the history of “weather radar” use in bird forecasting, plus refinements and algorithms, that fine tune the forecasts. We learn about BirdCast’s nationwide live migration maps, and bird migration forecasts for a city or a county, such as Boulder County Migration Forecasts. Additionally, we talk with AeroEcolab scientists Annika Abbott and Mikko Jimenez.
In the last 50 years, North American bird populations have dropped 30%. Light pollution draws many migrating birds to their death. The BirdCast Lights Out program encourages people and cities to turn out nonessential lights during key periods of bird migration in their areas.
AI for Police Worn Body Cameras (Starts 3:45) Body Cam AI uses artificial intelligence analysis for body cam transcripts. Can this new tech reduce excessive use of force and help restore public trust in policing? To learn more, we talk with Anthony Tassone, CEO of Truleo. Truleo is an AI system for analyzing body cam transcriptions. We also talk with City of Aurora Police Chief, Art Acedvdeo, who helped design this new tech, and is testing it out this year to evaluate its effectiveness in the field. And we talk with Anaya Robinson, Senior Policy Analyst for the ACLU of Colorado.
Master Hummingbird bander Steve Bouricius does workshops about hummingbirds. Today, Boulder Naturalists Scott Severs and Ruth Carol Cushman join Steve Bouricius to see the thousands of hummingbirds that visit his mountain cabin, and to talk about their lives and migration.
Executive Producer: Beth Bennett Show Producer: Shelley Schlender Engineer: Shannon Young
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.
