Tuesday, 11 February, 2014
Tuesday, 10 December, 2013
How to hit a moving target: Strategies for dealing with advanced cancer
Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, CU Medical School Division of Oncology
Tuesday, 12 November, 2013
Is Autoimmunity Environmental? If so, is it preventable?
Kevin Deane,MD, CU Medical School Division of Rheumatology
Tuesday, 15 October, 2013
Colorado's MAVEN mission to Mars
Nick Schneider, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
Tuesday, 10 September, 2013
Good drones--Good news!
Brian Argrow, PhD, Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
Tuesday, 4 June, 2013
How to learn the secrets of the universe, meet the most fascinating people, educate readers, and save the planet; all while being maddened, baffled, and terrified
Susan Moran, Kendall Powell, Hillary Rosner, and Garth Sundem
Tuesday, 7 May, 2013
100 Year Starship: Getting Ready to Travel to the Stars!
Alires Almon, MA, Orchestrator of Engagement, 100 Year Starship
Tuesday, 9 April, 2013
The skinny on resistant starch: can it really help you lose weight and prevent cancer?
Janine Higgins, PhD, Nutrition Research Director, CU's Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Aurora
Tuesday, 19 March, 2013
"Eliminate TB? We should have re-read Darwin first!"
Michael D. Iseman, MD, Professor of Medicine, CU and National Jewish Health
Tuesday, 19 February, 2013
Closing in on Dark Matter: If it's everywhere, why haven't we found it yet?
Martin E. Huber, PhD, Professor of Physics, University of Colorado Denver
Tuesday, 22 January, 2013
"Who's Asking? Getting sea level predictions right."
Tad Pfeffer, PhD, Professor of Engineering, UCB, and Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR)
Tuesday, 11 December, 2012
The End of the Universities?
Helen Macfarlane and John Cohen, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Tuesday, 13 November, 2012
New Considerations for Diabetes Prevention
Leigh Perreault, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Tuesday, 9 October, 2012
Finding Sister Earth: Quivering stars and the quest for habitable planets
Travis Metcalfe, PhD, Research Scientist, Space Science Institute, Boulder
Tuesday, 11 September, 2012
Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism
Robert Zubrin, PhD, Pioneer Astronautics, Lakewood CO
Tuesday, 12 June, 2012
Who Speaks for the Climate? Making sense of media reporting on climate change
Maxwell Boykoff, PhD, Center for Science and Technology Policy, University of Colorado Boulder
Tuesday, 8 May, 2012
Exploring terra incognita: the diversity of microbes in you, on you, and all around you
Noah Fierer, PhD, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder
Tuesday, 10 April, 2012
Thoughts as Things: Placebo effects and the brain systems that regulate pain and emotion
Tor Wager, PhD, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder
Tuesday, 13 March, 2012
Space Weather: Our Dynamic Sun and our Vulnerability to It
Frank Eparvier, PhD, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder
Tuesday, 21 February, 2012
Do Economists Need Ethics?
George DeMartino, PhD, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver.
Tuesday, 17 January, 2012
Mars: Are We Alone?
Brian M. Hynek, Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
Tuesday, 13 December, 2011
What can models tell us about El Niño in the 21st century?
Baylor Fox-Kemper, PhD, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
Tuesday, 15 November, 2011
Ecological Forecasting: How NEON Will Change the Landscape
David Schimel, PhD, Chief Science Officer and Principal Investigator, National Ecological Observatory Network
Tuesday, 11 October, 2011
Prone to Crawl: Pre-Bipedal Perambulation, Parenting and Parasites in Papue New Guinea
David Tracer, PhD, Professor of Anthropology and Health & Behavioral Sciences, University of Colorado Denver
Monday, 12 September, 2011
Antarctica In the Palm of Your Hand: A Science Tour of the Ice Sheet
Ted Scambos, PhD Senior Research Scientist National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder
Monday, 6 June, 2011
Asteroids: What's New with the Oldest Objects in the Solar System?
Bill Bottke, PhD, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder
Tuesday, 10 May, 2011
What makes things funny?
Peter McGraw, PhD, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder
Tuesday, 12 April, 2011
The Role of Financial Derivatives in the Crisis that Almost Wrecked the World Economy
Marcelle Arak, PhD, Professor of Finance, University of Colorado Denver School of Business
Tuesday, 8 March, 2011
Genetic Twists of Fate
Mark Johnston, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Tuesday, 8 February, 2011
Methane Seas and Salty Geysers: The Marvelous Moons of Saturn
John Spencer, PhD, Institute Scientist, Southwest Research Institute, Department of Space Studies, Boulder
Tuesday, 18 January, 2011
The Overtrained Athlete
Iρigo San Millαn, PhD, Director, Exercise Physiology and Human Performance Laboratory, University of Colorado Hospital, and CU Sports Medicine and Physical Therapy Clinic
Tuesday, 14 December, 2010
Could all that sugar you love be killing you?
Richard J. Johnson, MD, Chief, Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado Medical School
Tuesday, 16 November, 2010
Eocene fossils: This isn't the first Arctic warming!
Jaelyn J. Eberle, PhD, Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Tuesday, 12 October, 2010
Making cancer cells kill themselves
Andrew Thorburn, PhD, Chair, Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Medical School, Aurora.
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Tuesday, 21 September, 2010
Why and how are we shooting neutrinos across Japan?
Eric D. Zimmerman, PhD, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Tuesday, 15 June, 2010
Evolution: It's Not Just For Geeks Anymore
James DeGregori, Molecular Biology, University of Colorado Medical School.
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Tuesday, 18 May, 2010
Cooking Meth With Kids in the House: The Dark Side of Chemistry
John Martyny, National Jewish Health.
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Tuesday, 16 March, 2010
The Stem Cell Revolution
Dennis Roop, Regenerative Medicine, University of Colorado Medical School.
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Tuesday, 9 February, 2010
From Warming Hearts to Boiling Rage: Nonconsciously Navigating Daily Life
Lawrence E. Williams, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder.
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Tuesday, 19 January, 2010
The Earliest Stars and Galaxies:
Latest Results from Hubble and many other sources
Michael Shull,, PhD, Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences,University of Colorado, Boulder..
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Are Adolescents Less Mature Than Adults?
Cognitive Ability vs. Psychosocial Development
Marie Banich, PhD, Professor of Psychology, and Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado, Boulder..
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
Gravity's Fatal Attraction: How Black Holes Rule the Universe
As the Universe evolves, could it be the ultimate fate of all matter to be "swallowed" by black holes?
Mitch Begelman, Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, JILA Fellow, University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Mapping the Origin and Evolution of Life
Where did we come from? Are we descended from bacteria? No, says Norm Pace. Learn where we do come from and who our relatives and ancestors actually are.
Norm Pace, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Tuesday, 15 September, 2009
Vitamin D: Hyped Up or Home Run for Health?
You slathered yourself with SPF 65 all summer like a good citizen.
Are you now Vitamin D deficient? And the days are getting shorter...
Adit Ginde, MD, MPH, Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine
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Tuesday 30 June 2009
Ann-Christine Nyquist, MD, MSPH, Medical Director of Infection Prevention at The Children's Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UCD
H1N1: The Virus Formerly Known as Swine!
H1N1: The Virus Formerly Known as Swine!
Tuesday 19 May 2009
Dr. Paul W. King, Senior Scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Getting hydrogen from water the way algae do, with nanotubes and cloned hydrogenases!
Getting hydrogen from water the way algae do, with nanotubes and cloned hydrogenases!
Tuesday 14 April 2009
Dr. Murray W. Hitzman, Fogarty Professor of Economic Geology, Colorado School of Mines
Mining and Mineral Resources in the 21st Century
Mining and Mineral Resources in the 21st Century
Tuesday 24 March 2009
Steven G. Medema, PhD Professor of Economics, University of Colorado Denver
The Hesitant Hand: How our current economic predicament illustrates the good, the bad, and the ugly of markets
The Hesitant Hand: How our current economic predicament illustrates the good, the bad, and the ugly of markets
Tuesday 17 February 2009
David Pollock, PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, UC Denver School of Medicine
Molecules, Mutants, and Darwin: Human Evolution in the Age of Genomes
Molecules, Mutants, and Darwin: Human Evolution in the Age of Genomes
Tuesday 20 January 2009
Bridget Coughlin, PhD, Deputy Chief Curator and Curator of Human Health, Denver Museum of Nature & Science!
Gaining Fat, Losing Gray Matter: An Uplifting Assessment of our Mile High Health
Gaining Fat, Losing Gray Matter: An Uplifting Assessment of our Mile High Health
Tuesday 9 December 2008
James P. Gunderson, PhD, and Louise F. Gunderson, PhD. Gamma Two, Inc., custom robotics company, Denver. With a special guest appearance by Basil, the Drinks Robot!
Where Is My Robot?
Where Is My Robot?
Tuesday 18 November 2008
Nick Schneider, PhD, Laboratory for Atmospheric & Space Physics, UC Boulder
Mars' Disappearing Atmosphere: When Bad Things Happen to Good Planets
Mars' Disappearing Atmosphere: When Bad Things Happen to Good Planets
Tuesday 21 October 2008
Michael J. Brandemuehl, PhD, PE , Faculty Advisor; Chad Corbin, Kristin Field, and Jack Baum, members of the student engineering team, UC Boulder
The Solar Decathlon: How we made your dream house out of 2 shipping containers
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The Solar Decathlon: How we made your dream house out of 2 shipping containers
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Tuesday 23 September 2008
J. John Cohen, MD, PhD, Department of Immunology, University of Colorado Denver
The Hygiene Hypothesis: Better Living Through Dirt
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The Hygiene Hypothesis: Better Living Through Dirt
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Tuesday 17 June 2008
Edward Janoff, MD, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver
Prevention of Infectious Diseases: Vaccines and Immunity
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Prevention of Infectious Diseases: Vaccines and Immunity
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Tuesday 20 May 2008
Charles Musiba, PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
Who Made the Laetoli Footprints 3.6 Million Years Ago?
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Who Made the Laetoli Footprints 3.6 Million Years Ago?
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Tuesday 22 April 2008
Erica Ellingson, PhD, Dept. of Astrophysics and Planetary Science, U. Colorado, Boulder
Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe
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Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe
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Tuesday 18 March 2008
Jim McMillan, PhD, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Cellulosic Biofuels: Why Putting Transportation Vehicles on a High Fiber Diet Makes Sense
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Cellulosic Biofuels: Why Putting Transportation Vehicles on a High Fiber Diet Makes Sense
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Tuesday 19 February 2008
Dennis Boyle , MD, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine:
Doctors & Patients: What We Have Here Is Failure to Communicate
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Doctors & Patients: What We Have Here Is Failure to Communicate
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Tuesday 22 January 2008
Connie Price, MD , Denver Health Medical Center:
From Miasmas to MRSA: How Did We Get Here & What Do We Do Now?
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From Miasmas to MRSA: How Did We Get Here & What Do We Do Now?
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Tuesday 4 December 2007
Mitch Morrisey, JD, Denver District Attorney
DNA: From Crime Scene to Courtroom
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DNA: From Crime Scene to Courtroom
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Tuesday 13 November 2007
Tuesday 23 October 2007
Tuesday 25 September 2007
–AGING, ALCOHOL, MEMORY, AND MOLECULES–
Michael D. Browning, PhD, Professor, Program in Neuroscience and Department of Pharmacology, UCDHSCMore Info
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Tuesday 12 June 2007
–THE ARCTIC'S SHRINKING SEA-ICE COVER–
Mark Serreze, PhD, Research Professor of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Senior Research Scientist,National Snow and Ice Data Center
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Tuesday 15 May 2007
–CHINA AND INDIAS RAVENOUS APPETITE FOR NATURAL RESOURCES: Their Potential Impact on Colorado –
Vincent Matthews, PhD, Director, Colorado Geological Survey and Colorado State GeologistMore Info
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Tuesday 17 April 2007
–LIGHTNING! Science and safety –
Richard Kithil, Jr., Founder & President, National Lightning Safety Institute, & Robert Gift, Chimney Sweep, National Lightning Data CenterMore Info
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Tuesday 27 March 2007
–STEM CELLS: Hype or hope? Clearing away the confusion –
Curt R. Freed, MD, Professor and Head, Division of Clinical Pharmacology & Director, Neurotransplantation Program for Parkinson's Disease, University of Colorado Medical SchoolMore Info
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Tuesday 20 February 2007
–SALVAGING SUBURBAN SCIENCE: How the fossils beneath Denver provide a unique perspective on climate change –
Kirk Johnson, PhD, Vice President & Chief Curator, Denver Museum of Nature & ScienceMore Info
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Tuesday 23 January 2007
–MANNED SPACE EXPLORATION: Is it Worth the Trouble? –
George W. Eger, III, Space Exploration Systems, Lockheed Martin Space Systems CompanyMore Info
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Tuesday 12 December 2006
–WHAT'S ALL THE HULLABALOO OVER DYING ASPEN? WHAT WE KNOW AND DON'T KNOW–
Wayne D. Shepperd, PhD, Research Silviculturist, U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ft. Collins, COMore Info
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Tuesday 14 November 2006
–FROM CELLS TO SOCIETY: THE SCIENCE OF DRUG ABUSE –
Christian Hopfer, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Substance Dependence, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, UCDHSCMore Info
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Tuesday 17 October 2006
–SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS IN POLITICIZED DEBATES –
Roger A. Pielke, Jr. , Professor of Environmental Studies and Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, CU, BoulderMore Info
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Tuesday 19 September 2006
–FEEDING THE FIRE: PLANNING AN ENERGY FUTURE –
Mark Eberhart, Professor of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of MinesMore Info
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Tuesday 20 June 2006
–WHAT MAKES GOOD CLIMATES GO BAD? –
Mickey Glantz, Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric ResearchMore Info
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Tuesday 23 May 2006
–TISSUE ENGINEERGING: THE BODY SHOP?–
Kristi Anseth, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado at BoulderMore Info
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Tuesday 18 April 2006
–PLUTO AND BEYOND–
New Horizons will tell us about the ends of the Solar System
Fran Bagenal, Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences,
Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder
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Tuesday 21 March 2006
–PRODUCED BY BEAUTIFUL MINDS?–
Mathematics research: what is it, what's the Next Big Thing, and why you should care
Gene Abrams, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, President's Teaching Scholar
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Tuesday 21 February 2006
–MICROORGANISMS RULE THE WORLD: DEAL WITH IT–
Weird Bacteria that Live in Water that Would Dissolve a Duck
Timberley Roane, Department of Biology, University of Colorado at Denver and HSC
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Tuesday 17 January 2006
–RISK ANALYSIS AND PUBLIC HEALTH–
How to Get from Good Intentions to Good Results: Animal Antibiotics and Other Examples
Tony Cox, CEO, Cox Associates
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Tuesday 13 December 2005
–MARS DIRECT –
Humans to the Red Planet within a decade
Robert Zubrin, President, The Mars Society and Pioneer Astronautics Inc.
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Tuesday 15 November 2005
–GENETIC ENGINEERING: THE REVOLUTION, THE RISKS –
How cautious should we be about the Next Big Thing?
Suzanne Wuerthele, Genetic Engineering Committee, RM Chapter Sierra Club
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Tuesday 18 October 2005
–A TELESCOPE THE SIZE OF RHODE ISLAND –
Something out there—no one knows what—is hurling incredibly energetic particles around the universe.
The Pierre Auger Observatory in Colorado will study these events.
John Harton, Department of Physics, Colorado State University
Tuesday 27 September 2005
–YEAST AND HUMANS IN CIVILIZATION –
The science behind a long-standing fermented relationship
Robert A. Sclafani, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Medical School
Tuesday 14 June 2005
–WHERE HAVE ALL THE ANTIBIOTICS GONE? –
Drug Development Dwindles while Bizarre Bugs Burgeon
David R Luke, Senior Medical Director, Infectious Diseases, Pfizer Inc
Tuesday 17 May 2005
–QUANTUM DOTS AND PROGRAMMABLE MATTER –
Wil McCarthy, Engineer/Novelist/Journalist; President, The Programmable Matter Corporation
Tuesday 19 April 2005
–MEDICINE IN THE POST-GENOMIC AGE–
Using the Proteome for Diagnosis and Prognosis: Good and Evil?
Larry Gold, Chairman, CEO & Chief Science Officer, SomaLogic, Boulder
Tuesday 22 March 2005
–INTERSTELLAR COMMUNICATION AND VISITATION –
Science and the Limits of the Plausible
David Grinspoon, Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder
Tuesday 22 February 2005
– WHAT HAPPENED TO THE NEANDERTHALS? –
A Working Memory Hypothesis
Tom Wynn, Anthropology, and Fred Coolidge, Psychology, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Tuesday 25 January 2005
– SLEEP –
That Knitteth up the Ravell'd Sleave of Care
Michael Weissberg, Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Tuesday, 7 December, 2004
– GENETICALLY-MODIFIED ORGANISMS –
Monsters or Miracles?
Nina Fedoroff, Biology, Penn State
Tuesday, 16 November, 2004
– NANOTECHNOLOGY –
Nature to Nano in Only Two Leaps of Faith
Randy Levine, Founder and Director, ZettaCore Inc.
Tuesday, 19 October, 2004
– THE HIGGS BOSON –
Will the Holy Grail of physics be discovered in Geneva in 2007?
Marc Sher, Physics, College of William and Mary
Tuesday, 28 September, 2004
LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, & PLANETARY HABITABILITY
Are We Alone?
Laura Danly, Astronomer, Senior Fellow, Honors Program, University of Denver
Tuesday, 22 June, 2004
DIGITAL PEOPLE
How close are we to successfully creating bionic humans? What are the limits?
Sidney Perkowitz, Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta
Tuesday, 25 May, 2004
BIOTERRORISM
Can I Throw Out All That Protective Gear and Start Worrying About What Is Really Going To Kill Me?
Mark Cucuzzella, MD
Family Practice, CU Health Sciences Center, and USAF
Tuesday, 27 April, 2004
DIGGING THE DEAD
EMISSARIES FROM THE PAST -- AMBASSADORS FROM THE POOR?
Life Expectancy, Infectious Diseases, Nutrition, Bone Loss:
Parallels Between Ancient Mummies and the Modern Poor
Dennis Van Gerven, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder
Tuesday, 23 March, 2004
THE LIMITS OF SOFTWARE
Software-Intensive Systems Amplify Human Intelligence--Can They Replace Human Judgement?
Grady Booch, IBM Fellow
Chief Scientist of Rational Software Corporation from 1980-2003
Principal architect and mentor of software development solutions within IBM Rational Software Group
Tuesday, 17 February, 2004
ALL GREAT TRUTHS BEGIN AS HERESY
Health Care in America, and other Controversial Topics
Richard D. Lamm, Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the University of Denver
Tuesday, 27 January, 2004
OBESITY
Personal Responsibility, Toxic Environment, or Ancient Biology in a Modern World?
Dan Bessesen, Medicine, UCHSC and Chief of Endocrinology, Denver Health
Tuesday, 2 December, 2003
MODERN COSMOLOGY
The Origin and Evolution of the Universe
Michael Shull, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder
Tuesday, 11 November, 2003
IMMUNIZATION
Should we still bother to vaccinate against common diseases?
Aren't they all gone? Isn't vaccination unsafe?
J. J. Cohen, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
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