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It’s go-time for gardeners. Mother’s Day signaled the start of the spring season for much of Colorado.  And our listeners have saved up a winter’s-worth of questions for expert Fatuma Emmad. She’s founder of Frontline Farming, a community group that focuses on farming and education.

Shutdowns due to COVID-19 changed work and schools overnight, with Zoom meeting and Google classrooms becoming the norms. The technology that’s helped transform how we operate was created at CableLabs, a research facility in Louisville — it’s CEO, Phil McKinney, was recently named CEO of the Year by the Colorado Technology Association.

There’s a growing effort to honor Hispanic history through preservation. The national group, “Latinos in Heritage Conservation” holds its biannual conference in Denver this week. Desiree Aranda is the group’s cofounder. Annie Levinsky is with Historic Denver.

Long-COVID may have something to teach us. Those lingering symptoms of muscle pain, brain fog, and exhaustion are familiar to people who haven’t had COVID — but who suffer from chronic fatigue– people who’re often told “it’s all in their heads.” Like Dr. Michael Gallagher, of Denver. He was a triathlete — contracted a common virus — seemed to get better — but wound up bedridden. Gallagher’s new book “Run Down” is out today. We spoke in December.

For hundreds of millions of years, nature was silent. No birds chirping, no insects buzzing. But then, things changed. That’s the subject of the new book, “Sounds Wild and Broken,” that follows the evolution of animal sounds. Biologist David George Haskell wrote much of it while living in Boulder.

Kids are more susceptible than adults to light, and that can interfere with their sleep. How to help them cope? Lauren Hartstein is a postdoctoral fellow with the Sleep and Development Lab at CU Boulder.

The pandemic was especially hard on Black-owned businesses.  They suffered three times the declines seen by other ethnic and racial groups.  At the same time, a publication that supports Black businesses in Denver has been on hold since the first shutdown.  But now it’s back.  The 2022 edition of the Little Black Book launched last week.  Carla Ladd is the publisher.

The new GOES-T satellite is scheduled to launch into orbit on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Colorado’s Lockheed Martin built the satellite, which will improve weather forecasting and climate science. Adrian Cuadra is program director for Weather and Earth Science at Lockheed Martin.

Experts predict the world could lose half its languages in the next hundred years, including that spoken by the Ute Mountain Ute tribe in Colorado’s Four Corners region. To save their language, the tribe has created a digital dictionary.

Shieko Uno went to run an errand last December, and while she was out, her house burned to the ground. Uno is a piano teacher. The Marshall Fire reduced the home where she taught for nearly 30 years, and her pianos, to ashes. Like many other fire survivors, she’s left with the clothes on her back, memories, and a desire to find consolation where she can.

Birk Irving is taking his hardest trick, the double cork 1620, to the Olympics. For those not in the freeskiing universe, that’s two backflips plus four-and-a-half rotations. Irving was born and raised in Winter Park.

Colorado native Nicole Lewis is the launch director for Virgin Orbit. Her latest mission: to launch seven satellites into space off the wing of a 747.

The language of the Ute Mountain Ute tribe in the four corners region of Colorado is endangered: Just over 100 people on the planet speak it fluently. To save their language, the Ute Mountain Ute have created a digital dictionary with help from the Language Conservancy, a group that works to protect endangered languages. Juanita Plentyholes is the project coordinator with the Ute Mountain Ute tribe. Wil Meya is with the is with the Language Conservancy.

Golda Meir, a founding mother of Israel who signed that country’s Declaration of Independence and served as Prime Minister during many of its early crises, spent formative years living in an unassuming brick duplex on Denver’s west side.