Bears Ears, Fighting Back in School Shootings, Leap Second

Bears Ears and Native American Approaches to the Environment Guest: Chip Colwell, PhD, Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science  In the final weeks of his Presidency, Barack Obama has used his power under the Antiquities Act to create new national monuments in Utah and Nevada that place more than a million acres of land off-limits to development. Republican lawmakers and state and local officials hope the new President or Congress can undo the designations. The Utah land known as “Bears Ears” will be the first national monument to be co-managed by Native American tribes that lobbied for its creation. Anthropologist Chip Colwell has studied the way indigenous communities see natural places as living beings and how embracing that view might lead to changes in our laws.  Training Kids to Fight Back in a School Shooting Guest: Greg Crane, former police officer, Founder and CEO of ALICE Columbine, Virginia Tech and Newtown are tragic and well-known school shootings. But a tally of news and police reports by the advocacy group Every Town for Gun Safety shows that since 2013, there’s been an average of nearly one instance a week of a gun fired on school property somewhere in America.  Thankfully, most of those instances have not ended in mass casualties. Still, responding to an active shooter is now on the list of things school officials and students are expected to prepare for – along with earthquakes and fire. Many are turning to a training called “ALICE,” that is somewhat controversial because it teaches students and teachers to fight back, rather than just hunker down and hope to survive.  What Medieval Monks Can Teach Us about Treating Mental Health Guest: Carol Neel, PhD, Professor of European Middle Ages, Colorado College While not always effective, the medications and psychotherapy we use to today to treat mental illness are certainly more enlightened than the asylums, lobotomies and exorcisms that used to be standard treatment.  But historical handling of mental illness