Screens & Tech Safety . . . in Schools
Teaching through screens is part of getting kids ready for the digital world. But when do tech and screens help students and when do they ge...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsScience & Medicine
KGNU - How On Earth
The KGNU Science Show
Episodes
20 of 782 episodesMoving Beyond Climate “Hushing”
Climate “hushing” (start time: 5:41) Since President Trump began his second term as president in January, 2025, his administration, at a diz...
Take a Pause – With Jillian
In her new book, The Power of the Pause: 90 Seconds to Calm, Reset, and Reconnect, Jillian Pransky teaches readers how a brief 90-second bre...
Operation Music – Why or Why Not?
A heart attack forced Boulder community leader and journalist Sam Fuqua to need emergency care. While being wheeled into the operating room,...
Colorado River // Ghostbots
Colorado River Water (starts 1:00) Steep cuts are ahead in the use of Colorado River water by Arizona and California. But what about Colorad...
Just What is Wilderness?
What is a wilderness, really? Here in the US we think of it as undeveloped land, put aside to appreciate its beauty and remoteness. In other...
Eat Your Garden!
Gardens are popping up everywhere, from community plots to elementary school yards to vertical plantings. A unique approach proposed by awar...
Plastics: Health Risks & Solutions
Microplastics: Health Concerns, Solutions (start time: 6:02) The Environmental Protection Agency recently issued a new rule related to monit...
Poking the Squid – What We Can Learn from Animal Sex
Poking the Squid – Good Reads calls author and illustrator Perrin Roosevelt Ireland’s new book a brilliantly funny, beautifully illustrated...
Childrearing Tips (and Cautionary Tales) From the Animal Kingdom
Parenting Across the Animal Kingdom (start time: 5:02) As humans, we tend to think that we raise our children with more care than any other...
Kyle Datta – Energy Security, War & Renewable Energy
Global conflicts are revealing vulnerabilities in the global reliance on imported fossil fuels and centralized power. Energy Analyst Kyle Da...
Hidden Nations of Animals
Complex Animal Networks (start time: 7:17) As humans, we’re all familiar with, as we live in and are members of, nations. But most of us don...
Climate Change: Perils and Progress
Climate Change & Action: From the Arctic to Colorado (start time: 2:33) Twenty years ago the Academy-winning documentary An Inconvenient Tru...
Silent Sky // Gold Lab Symposium
Protest It, Respect It, Defend It, Use It (starts 1:00) Friday at Denver Patagonia and Saturday at Boulder Patagonia environmental activists...
A Longer Healthier Life
On this week’s How on Earth, Beth speaks with author, psychologist, and aging explorer Alan Carpenter to discuss the paradigm shift on aging...
The Loneliness Epidemic – CSU Researcher Natalie Pennington
The Loneliness Epidemic – Social media fuels extra risk. Especially vulnerable are people undergoing transitions . . . such as college stude...
Forest as Superorganism: What it means to Clearcut.
On this week’s How on Earth, Beth speaks with Suzanne Simard, professor and researcher at the University of British Columbia, about her book...
Buy Now Pay Later – Enticement or Addiction?
Buy Now Pay Later – is this lending service simply enticing, or is it addictive? For the GenZ 20 somethings that are its biggest users, is B...
Women’s Health Pt. III: Menopause & the Brain
The Brain on Menopause (start time: 01:24) In this week’s show, we offer the finale of our three-part series on menopause and women’s health...
A Brain Circuit That Switches Acute to Chronic Pain
On this week’s How on Earth, Beth talks with neuroscientist and chronic pain researcher Jayson Ball. He recently completed a study of a nove...