CU Boulder Podcasts

As onshore and offshore wind energy farms have proliferated globally in recent years, new research led by CU Boulder highlights a previously underexplored consequence: a wake effect from upwind wind farms that can reduce the energy production of their downwind neighbors, says CU Boulder economist and co-author of the study, Danial Kaffine.

Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder Nathan Schneider talks about co-operatives, their importance in a digital age, and his new book titled Everything for Everyone.

Christina Ladem, a Ph.D. candidate in the political science department at the University of Colorado Boulder, talks about why more women are running for political office, especially following the 2016 presidential election.

The heckling is real, the riots just acknowledged, and they are part of an innovative teaching method called Reacting to the Past, which was initiated at Barnard College in New York. Michaele Ferguson, an associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado Boulder, usually teaches at least one class a semester involving these games, which require students to play characters from the past.

At 50, Night of the Living Dead is still digging up social commentary.

The emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria is becoming increasingly problematic for medical providers and dangerous for people who need medical treatment.

Research to find a way to counter this threat is underway at CU Boulder where Corrie Detweiler and her team are looking to find alternative ways to confront the problem.

From broadband cooperatives bringing high-speed to rural communities to taxi drivers joining forces to fend off Uber, the co-op movement is alive and well. Listen to the author and CU Boulder professor Nathan Schneider talk about the 21st Century cooperative movement as it becomes an economic force in America.

Barn swallows can eat hundreds of mosquitoes a day, but their numbers are declining. A collaboration between art and science at CU Boulder provides a new bird condo with move-in-ready nesting space.

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By JJ Cadiz, Cajay, from Wikimedia Commons

University of Colorado graduate Rachael Kaspar talks about a new discovery about bee behavior. Older bees can influence younger bees to fan their wings to cool the hive.

A new study suggests that damaging weather events, more common to the Pacific Northwest, will happen more frequently in Colorado in the coming years. The study by CU Boulder and the National Center for Atmospheric Research found that due to climate change, flooding caused by rain falling on snowpack could more than double by the end of this century in areas of the western U.S., including Colorado’s high country, says CU Boulder researcher and lead author Keith Musselman.