Meet a 14-year-old rocket scientist
Johann Kailey-Steiner won a national award, met the president, and will give a TEDx talk all because of his research into more efficient rockets.
A quarter century after Exxon Valdez spill, Boulder researcher says impact continues
Liesel Ritchie is an expert on how disasters affect people. For years, she studied communities devastated by the Valdez tanker spill.
Loud and Clear: When Don Draper isn’t stylish
Listeners comment on recent interviews on Colorado Matters.
A reimagined Molly Brown and stage version of ‘Hunger Games’ precursor ‘The Lord of the Flies’
The Denver Center Theater Company lifts the curtain on its new season, which includes a reworking of “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” and a stage adaptation of “Lord of the Flies.”
Book Excerpt: ‘The Wives of Los Alamos’
Boulder author TaraShea Nesbit provided us with a chapter from her new novel “The Wives of Los Alamos.”
New book chronicles the Los Alamos wives: Heading west into the unknown
In her debut novel, Boulder author TaraShea Nesbit writes about the wives of Manhattan Project scientists who left everything they knew and moved to the New Mexico desert. Their husbands couldn’t tell them they were developing the atomic bomb.
Why so few condos are going up in Colorado
In metro Denver, construction of apartment rentals and single-family homes has bounced back from the Great Recession. But condos are a different story.
A smorgasbord of Colorado cooking
A listener favorite: Here are the some of the best interviews with culinary authors from Colorado.
Loud and Clear: Listeners share the love
Ahead of Valentine’s Day, listeners share their love for conversations they heard and the ideas they’ve spurred.
Denver woman survived Holocaust by hiding in forest for years
In a new book, Paula Burger writes about escaping the Jewish ghetto and living in the forest with more than 1,000 other people.
Loud and Clear: Capturing emotion, and your New Year’s resolutions
In our weekly feedback segment, listeners react to stories from South Sudan, avalanche training and math class
Loud and Clear: Capturing emotion, and your New Year’s resolutions
In our weekly feedback segment, listeners react to stories from South Sudan, avalanche training and math class
Loud and Clear: Listeners moved to action
Listeners spring to action after hearing stories about the GED test and families recovering from the September flood.
In one Colorado community, a smartphone app might save a life
Arvada is currently the only community in Colorado using PulsePoint, a mobile app that uses the power of crowdsourcing to respond to cardiac arrest.
A poem for the New Year in Colorado, and the one that was
As 2013 comes to a close, Colorado Matters’ poet David Rothman sums up the year in the state, inspired by letters from CPR listeners.
Unforgettable culinary interviews from Colorado Matters in 2013
Pull up a chair for some catfish and cornbread, cast-iron cooking, gluten-free desserts and the search for a unique Colorado cuisine.
