Denver Museum of Nature & Science Podcast

A Museum for the Youngest Patrons

How does the Denver Museum of Nature & Science give its youngest patrons a hands-on learning experience?

Symposium Contemplates the Fundamentals of Science and Public Policy

On December 4 The Institute for Science & Policy at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science held a symposium to deliberate about the role of science in decision making and public policy. 

Who Tells The Museum's Story?

Who tells the Museum’s story? If museums are the world’s archive, where are the museums’ archives?
In this podcast, archivists René O’Connell and Sam Schiller talk about some of the most historically significant and strangest artifacts that tell the history of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

Saving Sea Lions from The Museum Lab

How will research conducted by Andy Doll, assistant collections manager at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science help save endangered Stellar sea lions in the Gulf of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands?

Big Grant Funds Big Data

Denver Museum of Nature & Science just received a federal grant to adopt cutting-edge data analytics. How will the Museum employ new technology over the next two years to analyze and enhance the Museum experience? Find out in this podcast with Molly Engleking, supervisor of data analytics.

Move Over Megafauna! The Minifauna Zoo is Worth a Visit

There are thousands of zoos with lions, wolves, and tigers, but a zoo of ant lions, wolf spiders, and tiger beetles is a rarity. Why operate a zoo with creatures a lot of people want to avoid? This podcast with Maia Holmes, zookeeper at Colorado State University’s Bug Zoo, will make you question your assumptions about arthropods. 

What's so special about Thanksgiving food?

What do Thanksgiving favorites turkey, corn, sweet potatoes, green beans, potatoes, and pumpkin have in common? Is a harvest festival unique to America or universally celebrated? How else does Thanksgiving in the United States represent cooperation between Native Americans and European immigrants? Click xx to hear Dr. Steve Nash, curator of archaeology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, provide food for thought about one of our best loved holidays. 

Newly Arrived Zuni Map Art Provides a Different Perspective

What do you expect to see on a map? If you’re like most Americans, you would expect street names, highway numbers, population centers, landmarks, jurisdictional boundaries, and major geographical features depicted to scale within longitude and latitude lines. A key of symbols would be in the right-hand corner. North would be up and south down.

Spark Your Imagination: George's December Book

The Sparks Book of the Month is Seeds of Science, by Mark Lynas.
“As a scientist, I thought it was a pretty well established that GMOs are safe,” said Mr. Sparks. “Mark Lynas turns out to have written a wonderful book about this. In the 1970s, Lynas was an activist in the UK who was actually going out and burning test plots of GMO crops.”

The Taste of Archaeology

Would Michele Koons, PhD, curator of archaeology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, eat a 3,200-year-old piece of cheese found during an archaeological dig? She answers this question and others during this podcast about food and other artifacts found at Magic Mountain, one of the most important archaeological sites on Colorado’s Front Range.