Cell Phones & Cancer (Starts 1:00) A $25 million study reports cell phone radiation boosted brain cancer in rats . . . and rats exposed to radiation lived longer. Frank Barnes, CU-Boulder Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, explains these paradoxical findings and implications for people. (Related stories — 2011 Cell Phone Radiation and 2014 An Electric Silent Spring)
Narcotics Prolong Chronic Pain (Starts 11:35) CU-Boulder neuroscientist Peter Grace explains his team’s new findings about how and why morphine can prolong chronic pain. Rats with induced nerve pain received morphine for 5 days; their pain lasted nearly three months — twice as long as the nerve pain for rats that got no morphine. This is one of the first studies to test long-term effects of treating chronic pain with opioid painkillers. (Related story: KGNU call-in show on the opioid addiction epidemic)
Host/Producer/Executive Producer: Shelley Schlender
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In this follow-up episode of our “Graduation Special” we talk with three more guests graduating with science Ph.D.’s from the University of Colorado in Boulder. They join us to talk about their thesis research, their grad school experiences, and what they have planned next:
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(Starting at 6:30) FLOWS bridges social justice and environmental issues. FLOWS provides leadership training opportunities, green job skills, and free energy and water upgrades while building partnerships between CU students and staff and community members. They partner with and work primarily for low-income communities for water and energy conservation (the communities most in need of lower energy and water bills). They joined us to talk about their new training program coming up this May. Find out more about their program
Host Beth Bennett interviews Bob Crifasi, author of A Land Made of Water (starts at 4’55”). Bob works in water management and planning and is an environmental scientist with over 25yr experience. He was the Water Resources Administrator for the city of Boulder’s Open Space and Mountain Parks Dept. He has served on board of directors of 11 ditch companies and as the president of several, supervising all aspects of ditch operation.
