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Show Title Description Date Producer Theme Program Type

 Standing in the Light - Pantheism & CSU Environmental School

 

 8/4/09

 Shelley Schlender

 Environmental Health

 Interview

 Mars Society

 Joel Parker talks with Chris Carberry, Director of the Mars Society, about their upcoming convention at CU-Boulder.

 8/12/08

 Joel Parker

 Astronomy

 Interview

 Feldenkrais Method of Body Awareness

 A look at the science behind this body awareness method.

 7/29/08

 Shelley Schlender

 Health and Medical Research

 Interview

 Rhino with the Glue On Shoes

 True Stories of Zoo Vets and Wild Animal Vets

 7/8/08

 Shelley Schlender

 Biology

 Interview

 Stool Transplant for C Diff Colitis

 An unusual inoculation that cures a deadly intestinal infection.

 5/20/08

 Sam Fuqua

 Health and Medical Research

 Interview

 April Fool's Day How on Earth 2008

 HEADLINES: 1. The Scientific Journal Wikipedia 2. Secret Ray Gun 3. Yoga Breathing Slows Global Warming. FEATURES 1. "Stool Transplant" cures Colitis 2. New Definition of Science 3. Professor Tom with "It's Getting Hot in Here!"

 4/1/08

 Shelley Schlender

 New Science Research

 Interview

 World Made By Hand - James Howard Kunstler

 The author of the non-fiction book, The Long Emergency, explores the aftermath of the "emergency" in his new fiction book, Word Made By Hand.

 3/26/08

 Shelley Schlender

 Environmental Health

 Interview

 Accordions, Earth Hour and Denver's Greenprint Program

 HEADLINES: CU Botanist Ned Friedman Finds Unique Flowering Plant; Motivation & Performance; 'Tis Happier to Give. SHORT FEATURE: The Science of Accordions, with Dan Tulenko, LONG FEATURE: Earth Hour, with Denver Greenprint's Michele Weingarden

 3/25/08

 Joel Parker

 Energy and Energy Conservation

 Interview

 Accordions (Short Feature)

 Longmont resident Dan Tulenko explains the "science" of accordion construction and repair.

 3/25/08

 Shelley Schlender

 Music

 Short Feature

 Your Inner Fish

 A journey into the 3.5 billion year history of the human body

 3/11/08

 Shelley Schlender

 

 Interview

 Douglas Duncan: How Students Learn & Eclipses

 

 3/4/08

 Joel Parker

 Astronomy

 Interview

 Mining Superfund Sites--Joe Ryan

 MAIN FEATURE: Mining Superfund Sites (CU's Joe Ryan, Boulder Pacesetter Award Winner in Science)

 1/22/08

 

 

 

 Chyrsalis

 HEADLINES: MAIN FEATURE: Chrysalis

 1/15/08

 

 

 Interview

 Engaging Girls in Computing

 HEADLINES: La Nina Dries Colorado (CU/NOOA’s Klaus Wolter), Ethanol from Switchgrass (NREL), Audubon Bird Watch (Denver Audobon) MAIN FEATURE: The Great Research Challenge: Engaging Girls in Computer (CU’s Lecia Barker and ATLAS, Kevin Marlatt, Den

 1/8/08

 Shelley Schlender

 Technology

 Documentary

 Top Ten Science Stories 2007

 TOP TEN SCIENCE STORIES 1. International Panel on Climate Change 2. Climate Change Speeds Up 3. Mars Rovers 4. Earth like planets 5. Big supernova 6. Coal Plants 7. DNA mapping. 8. Cloning 9. Quantum Calculation 10. Fighting Global Warmin

 1/1/08

 Joel Parker

 

 Interview

 Hollywood Science

 HEADLINES: Salmon Farms Hurt Wild Salmon, Habitat Splits Harm Biodiversity, The "Pineapple Express." MAIN FEATURE: Hollywood Science, with Sydney Perkowitz, followed by a pick of favorite films by Science Show hosts.

 12/18/07

 Shelley Schlender

 

 Interview

 Cement Plant Cleanup

 HEADLINES: Greenland Ice Melting Faster (CIRES/CU Boulder's Konrad Steffen), Worms . . Heads or Tails, Boulder Cafe Scientifique--Deformed Frogs (CU's Pieter Johnson) MAIN FEATURE: CEMENT PLANT CLEANUP, Cemex, Lyons & Colorado Citizen's Campaign

 12/11/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Environmental Health

 Short Feature

 CU Sound Lab . . . & Orion Nebula

 HEADLINES: Memories and Feelings, Denver Cafe Scientifique--DNA From Crime Scene to Courtroom. SHORT FEATURE: CU Boulder Fisk Planetarium Sound Lab, INTERVIEW: CU Astronomer Steve Skinner on the Warm Glow in the Orion Nebula.

 12/3/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Community Health Education

 Short Feature

 World Without Us . . . Extended Show

 HEADLINES: Gestational Diabetes, Alven Waves (CU & Boulder Astronomers), Yellowstone Caldera MAIN FEATURE: The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman

 11/27/07

 Shelley Schlender

 

 Interview

 Cooling Global Warming with Clouds

 HEADLINES: Biofuels Collaboration, Moon's Eccentric Orbit, Confronting Disaster Losses. MAIN FEATURE: Cooling Global Warming with Clouds

 11/20/07

 Judy Lubow

 Environmental Health

 Interview

 Cosmic Rays--Do they come from Black Holes?

 HEADLINES: Deformed Frogs (CU's Pieter Johnson), Redheaded Neanderthals, Boulder Cafe Scientifique on Governor Ritter's Energy Plan, Denver Cafe Scientifique on Thinking Like a Computer. MAIN FEATURE: Do You Know Where Your Cosmic Rays Are Coming From?

 11/13/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Astronomy

 Interview

 World Without Us

 Alan Weisman offers a new approach to questions of humanity’s impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.

 10/23/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Environmental Health

 Interview

 Animal Vegetable Miracle

 Interview with author Barbara Kingsolver

 10/16/07

 Ellen Mahoney

 Environmental Health

 Interview

 Boulder's Coal Fired Power Plant

 A Tour of the Valmont Power Plant

 9/25/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Environmental Health

 Documentary

 Science of Myth Busting

 Norbert Schwartz will discuss the science of myth-busting.

 9/25/07

 Shelley Schlender

 New Science Research

 Interview

 IPCC Author Kevin Trenberth, NCAR

 NCAR'S Kevin Trenberth discusses Climate Change

 9/18/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Environmental Health

 Interview

 The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs

 HEADLINES: Science of Myth-Busting, Neurons & Memory, Boulder Cafe Scientifique MAIN FEATURE: The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs (with Bill Bottke)

 9/11/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Astronomy

 Interview

 Physics of Biology-Background Noise Bill Bialek

 HEADLINES: Fireproofing Homes, Empathy & Conflict, NASA Space Exhibit; MAIN FEATURE: Physics & Background Noise

 9/4/07

 Shelley Schlender

 New Science Research

 Interview

 Physics of Biology-High Performance Life Bill Bialek

 HEADLINES: Out-of-Body Experience; Fear & Brain; EcoArts Festival; MAIN FEATURE: Physics of Biology--Bill Bialek

 8/28/07

 Shelley Schlender

 New Science Research

 Interview

 What's the Beef?

 HEADLINES: Fairy Wrens, Mice Smell Carbon Dioxide, Forests and Grass vs. Biofuel Crops. MAIN STORY: WHAT'S THE BEEF?

 8/21/07

 Susan Kathleen Moran

 Environmental Health

 Interview

 Wildfire and Residential Development

 HEADLINES: Black-Footed Ferret, E-Coli Mutations, Laser Technology Speeds Up. MAIN STORY: Wildfire-Short Feature with Eric Philips & Dave Theobald (by Shelley Schlender), Charcoal Forest Children's Book Author Beth Peluso (by Karen van Vuuren), Tania S

 8/14/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Environmental Health

 Documentary

 Pikas and Global Warming

 HEADLINES: Martian Groundwater, Immune Cells, Saturn's G Ring. MAIN FEATURE: PIKAS & GLOBAL WARMING--with biologists Chris Ray & Jeff Mitton, and naturalist Steve Jones.

 8/7/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Environmental Health

 Interview

 Nuclear Power: Pro vs Con

 Nuclear Power, with Paul Danish, who favors nuclear power, and with Dr. Helen Caldicott, who opposes it:

 7/24/07

 Claudia Cragg

 Environmental Health

 Interview

 Biodiesel from Pond Scum

 

 7/17/07

 To Be Announced

 Energy and Energy Conservation

 Interview

 Turning Denver Trash into Energy

 HEADLINE: Sea Anenome Genome HEADLINE: Men and Women Equally Gabby MAIN FEATURE: Turning Denver Trash into Energy

 7/10/07

 Susan Kathleen Moran

 Energy and Energy Conservation

 Interview

 Food Fight: A Citizen's Guide to the Farm Bill

 Live Interview with Dan Imhoff, author of Food Fight

 7/3/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Global Environmental Change

 Interview

 Music and Health

 HEADLINES: Tropical Forests Win at Carbon Sequestration; Ancient Virus Influences Human HIV; Giant Penguin Fossils in Peru; MAIN FEATURE: Music and Health in America

 6/26/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Community Health

 Interview

 Colorado's Ancient Astronomers

 HEADLINE: Voluntary Donations Feel Good HEADLINE: Ancient Seas on Mars HEADLINE: Pluto Gets Demoted ... Again. MAIN FEATURE: Ancient Rock Art . . . by CELTIC Explorers?

 6/19/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Astronomy

 Interview

 Earthworms

 HEADLINE: Upright Walking HEADLINE: Earth Crust & Water HEADLINE: Logging Destroys Tropical Forests MAIN FEATURE: How Worms Make Good Soil

 6/12/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Environmental Health

 Interview

 Scientists Say Walk . . . Slowly

 HEADLINES: Rocks in Space Differ from Rocks on Earth; Effects of Marijuana on Developing Brain MAIN FEATURE: Walking Slowly (CU Scientists Rodger Kram and Ray Browning) It's Good for You to Walk at a Comfortable Pace

 5/29/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Health and Medical Research

 Interview

 Feeding the Fire -- Mark Eberhart

 HEADLINES: Estrogens Destroy Fish Populations; Scientists Track Mutations in a Deadly Hospital Infection. MAIN FEATURE: How using the laws of energy can solve our energy addiction

 5/22/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Energy and Energy Conservation

 Interview

 Carbon Tracker

 Interview with NOAA scientist Peter Tonz about a new model for tracking carbon in the environment.

 3/27/07

 Len Houle

 Global Environmental Change

 Interview

 Jill Fredston: Snowstruck

 Interview with avalanche expert Jill Fredston.

 3/6/07

 Daniel Costello

 Science and Public policy

 Interview

 Biodiesel from Algae

 Manufacturing fuel from algae.

 2/20/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Energy and Energy Conservation

 Short Feature

 Dr. Don Brownlee: NASA's Stardust Mission

 Interview about NASA's stardust mission.

 2/6/07

 Daniel Costello

 Astronomy

 Interview

 The National Grasslands

 Two interviews about our least known public lands, the National Grasslands.

 1/23/07

 Daniel Costello

 Land Managment and Conservation

 Interview

 Home Energy Audits

 How to save energy at home through a professional home energy audit.

 1/16/07

 Shelley Schlender

 Energy and Energy Conservation

 Short Feature

 Robert Zubrin: Let's Go to Mars!

 Interview with Robert Zubrin of the Mars Society, an organization that advocates for a manned mission to Mars.

 12/12/06

 Sam Fuqua

 Astronomy

 Interview

 Chamberlin Observatory and Dark Skies

 Tour of Chamberlin Observatory and an interview with Dr. Robert Stencel about dark skies.

 11/28/06

 Daniel Costello

 Astronomy

 Interview

 Clouds for Cooling Global Warming

 HEADLINES: Yellowstone Caldera Expands, CU Boulder Colorado School of Mines and NREL Collaboration, Gestational Diabetes. MAIN FEATURE: Clouds for Cooling Global Warming, with NCAR Scientist John Latham.

 11/20/06

 Judy Lubow

 Environmental Health

 Interview

 Wendell Berry

 Feature on Wendell Berry, Agrarian Thinker, followed by excerpts from a speech he gave at the Land Institute.

 11/14/06

 Shelley Schlender

 Environmental Health

 Short Feature

 The Catastrophic Retreat of the Columbia Glacier

 Glaciologist Tad Pfeffer discusses his research on the Columbia Glacier in Alaska.

 11/7/06

 Daniel Costello

 Global Environmental Change

 Interview

 Longmont's Great Pumpkin

 Feature on Longmont's giant pumpkin.

 10/23/06

 Shelley Schlender

 

 Short Feature

 Boulder's Climate Action Plan

 Interview with Boulder Mayor Mark Ruzzin about Boulder's climate action plan.

 10/17/06

 Judy Lubow

 Global Environmental Change

 Interview

 Flock of Dodos

 Interview with Randy Olson about his film, Flock of Dodos: the Evolution/Intelligent Design Circus

 10/13/06

 Daniel Costello

 Evolution

 Interview

 The Rough Guide to Climate Change

 Interview about the book, The Rough Guide to Climate Change.

 10/10/06

 Daniel Costello

 Global Environmental Change

 Interview

 Dr. Tom Wigley: Geoengineering and Global Warming

 Interview with Dr. Tom Wigley about his three recently published papers.

 9/19/06

 Daniel Costello

 Global Environmental Change

 Interview

 1390 Anniversary Show--AM Broadcasting

 An interview about AM broadcasting.

 8/29/06

 Daniel Costello

 Physics and Engineering

 Interview

 The Essential Grizzly

 Interview with Doug and Andrea Peacock about their book, The Essential Grizzly.

 7/25/06

 Daniel Costello

 Wildlife Management and Conservation

 Interview

 The Space Shield

 Interview with Astronomer and CU Professor Webster Cash about the proposed Space Shield, used for finding new planets.

 7/18/06

 Sam Fuqua

 Astronomy

 Interview

 Solar 2006

 Excerpts from speeches given at the Solar 2006 conference.

 7/11/06

 Daniel Costello

 Energy and Energy Conservation

 Speech

 David Ward on the Strawjet

 Janaki LeFils interviews David Ward, inventor of the Strawjet.

 6/20/06

 Janaki LeFils

 

 Interview

 Recovery from Schizophrenia

 Judy Lubow interviews Richard Warner for the KGNU science show, How on Earth, about his upcoming July 11 talk at Boulder's Cafe Scientifique about how Recovery from Schizophrenia can be possible.

 6/13/06

 Judy Lubow

 Community Health

 Interview

 Fighting Expanding Deserts and Thawing Permafrost

 Colorado shortgrass prairie experts are helping scientists in Mongolia fight the expanding Gobi Desert, and scientists in Boulder warn about thawing permafrost.

 6/6/06

 Shelley Schlender

 Global Environmental Change

 Documentary

 The Omnivore's Dilemma

 Interview with writer Michael Pollan on his new book The Omnivore's Dilemma.

 5/30/06

 Ewen Callaway

 Nutrition and Health

 Interview

 Ball Aerospace Part 2: The Tour

 A tour of some of the facilities at Ball Aerospace.

 5/23/06

 Daniel Costello

 Astronomy

 Interview

 Ball Aerospace Part 1: Bill Townsend

 Interview with Bill Townsend of Ball Aerospace.

 5/16/06

 Daniel Costello

 Astronomy

 Interview

 Darwin's Transformation

 The third installment in How On Earth's look at evolution; an interview with Lyanda Haupt author of Pilgrim of the Great Bird Continent

 5/2/06

 Shelley Schlender

 Evolution

 Interview

 Darwin--Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent

 How a bumbling college student evolved into a real naturalist and scientist

 5/1/06

 Shelley Schlender

 Evolution

 Interview

 Programming the Universe

 

 5/1/06

 

 

 

 Conference on World Affairs: Fintan Steele

 KGNU producer Ewen Callaway interviews Conference on World Affairs Panelist Fintan Steele.

 4/11/06

 Ewen Callaway

 

 Interview

 Cafe Scientifique

 Cafe Scientifique story and BBC's Science In Action

 3/28/06

 Ewen Callaway

 

 Documentary

 Temple Grandin on Autism, Education & Animals

 Temple Grandin-author, autism educator and animal behavior expert.

 3/21/06

 Shelley Schlender

 

 Interview

 The Colony by John Tayman

 In the 19th century the government of Hawaii began exiling people suspected of leprosry to a colony on the desolate island of Molokai. The program continued well into the twentieth century even after doctors realized that leprosy or Hansen's disease, alth

 3/14/06

 Ewen Callaway

 

 Interview

 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

 An interview with Dr. Gene Whitney about his work in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Dr. Whitney is a geologist and focuses on energy and other earth science issues (rescheduled from February 28).

 3/7/06

 Daniel Costello

 Science and Public policy

 Interview

 Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues

 Interview with Marc Bekoff about his book Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues

 2/21/06

 Sam Fuqua

 Biology

 Interview

 School Vending Machine Bill Reintroduced

 

 2/16/06

 

 Nutrition and Health

 

 The Republican War On Science

 An interview with Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War On Science, along with this week's science news and Earthwatch.

 2/14/06

 Ewen Callaway

 Science and Public policy

 Interview

 The Future of Warfare, Science Fiction or Fact?

 Interview with Dr. Doug Beason, Director of Threat Reduction at Los Alamos National Laboratory by producer Judy Lubow

 2/7/06

 

 

 Interview

 Soy and Heart Health

 HEADLINES: How Flowers Grow; NFL Players Recover from Concussions faster than High School Football Players MAIN FEATURE: Soy Diet Worsens Heart Health in Some Mice . . . and possibly some people.

 1/24/06

 Shelley Schlender

 Community Health Education

 Interview

 Telecom's Brave New World

 TELECOM'S BRAVE NEW WORLD

 11/15/05

 David Wilson

 Science and Public policy

 Interview

 Decade of the Wolf

 Decade of the Wolf-Returning the Wild to Yellowstone.

 10/25/05

 Daniel Costello

 Wildlife Management and Conservation

 Interview

 The Ancestor's Tale with Richard Dawkins

 Richard Dawkins is the acclaimed author of The Ancestor's Tale, The Selfish Gene, and The Devil's Chaplain. An evolutionary biologist by training, Dawkins has devoted his career to explaining evolution and lately to debunking intelligent design.

 10/18/05

 Ewen Callaway

 Evolution

 

 Land Institute Pushes for Perennial Crops

 HEADLINE STORIES: SHORT FEATURE: Land Institute Prairie Festival MAIN FEATURE: Speech by Land Institute Founder, Wes Jackson

 9/20/05

 

 Environmental Health

 Documentary

 Water Quality Intersex Fish in Boulder Creek

 Dan Costello talks with experts from USGS, Boulder's Waste Water Treatment plant and biologists about the impact of endocrine disruptors on our water supply.

 8/12/05

 Daniel Costello

 Environmental Health

 Interview

 Devil's Teeth

 Devil's Teeth chronicles a journalist's month spent aboard a reseach boat anchored off the Faralone Islands, the premier spot in the world to observe great white sharks. Ewen Callaway met with writer Susan Casey to discuss her book and her experience

 6/28/05

 Ewen Callaway

 Wildlife Management and Conservation

 Interview

 Astrobiology

 Astrobiology is the scientific field that seeks to discover and understand life throughout the universe. KGNU producer Ewen Callway found that this search often begins on Earth.

 6/14/05

 Ewen Callaway

 Biology

 Documentary

 Ivory Billed Woodpecker Returns

 The Ivory Bill was considered extinct for decades--this show celebrates its return with music and conversations with experts on the elusive bird.

 6/7/05

 Shelley Schlender

 Environmental Health

 Documentary

 Water Quality 1--Touring the Waste Water Treatment Plant

 Boulder's superbowl of toilets is the Waste Water Treatment Plant, designed to clear many toxins out of sewage water. In this tour of the plant, we learn about the complex and simple ways to clean up water.

 5/24/05

 Shelley Schlender

 Environmental Health

 Documentary

 Water Quality-Scientists Study Endocrine Disruptors in Treated Water

 Something in our treated sewage water is causing strange abnormalities in fish. Scientists at the University of Colorado suspect endocrine disruptors, and they say it's time to clean them up.

 5/24/05

 Shelley Schlender

 Environmental Health

 Interview

 Ronald McDonald--Health Ambassador?

 McDonald's famous clown, Ronald, is slated to go into grade schools as a "health ambassador" to promote exercise. Some experts say the presence of this clown will just entice kids to eat more junk.

 2/22/05

 Daniel Costello

 Personal Growth

 Interview

 Derby

 

 3/18/03

 

 

 

 Rhino with the Glue On Shoes

 

 12/31/69

 

 

 

 Mars Society Extended Feature

 

 12/31/69

 

 

 


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