Background: In 2009, an 8th grade girl at Casey Middle School became pregnant. At the age of 14, she gave birth, and she decided to keep her baby. Her experience led teen journalists at Casey to ask me to help them produce a series of radio programs about Teen Pregnancy. Continue reading
Our Dog Brian
Since the year 2000, Boulder naturalists Steve Jones and Ruth Carole Cushman have been explaining to KGNU listeners, “What’s happening in the Natural World?” on the first Friday of every month. I have the honor of going out with Steve and Ruth Carole to record their on-location observations of the natural world, and then I produce the recordings for broadcast. George Oetzel, Boulder County Nature Association, maintains an archive of these forays into nature. Click here to see the website.
When a major health study called ACCORD showed that aggressive reduction of blood sugars in diabetics killed more people than it helped, the general response in media was to report that diabetics shouldn’t try to get their blood sugars into a somewhat normal range. Those reports tended to overlook the fact that the most common medical way to reduce blood sugars is to add more medications. In other words, it might be the extra medications that were killing many patients, rather than their lowered blood sugars. This story discussed that angle, plus how a low carb diet can reduce blood sugars without as much reliance on medications.
When astrophysicist Cliff Stoll decided to check his house for radioactivity, he didn’t expect the most radioactive hazard to be in a little cardboard box that dated back to the 1920s. Continue reading
