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Hundreds of Superflares Seen on Sunlike Stars
A NASA spacecraft has witnessed hundreds of "superflares...
How drunk are you?
Earlier this month, the Student Emergency Medical Services (SEMS) Foundation launched its “DrinkSafe” application for the Apple iPhone. The nonprofit is based in Boulder, and was in part launched by University of Colorado students and Matthew W. Beres, SEMS ...
Garden wars
Behind the North Boulder Recreation Center off Broadway is another world, nestled between subdivisions and marked off into 400-square-foot plots. It is a subculture that has its own rules. And like any community, especially one where there are no walls and your ...
New Splinter Cell game sets the bar high
Splinter Cell: Conviction was originally scheduled to hit store shelves way back in 2007. But after some gameplay issues, UbiSoft developers went back to the drawing board — and it’s a good thing they did. Conviction is hands down the best game of the franchise and ...
Will Lafayette be the next Front Range community to stand up...
Not only are the towns of Erie and Lafayette in close proximity to one another, they share a great deal of history. Both communities owe their existence to the discovery of coal that fueled their early economies. The shafts of old mines still zig-zag just below the ...
Amazon’s ruthless practices are crushing Main Street
Even by the anything-goes ethical code of the corporate jungle, Amazon.com’s alpha male, Jeff Bezos, is considered a ruthless predator by businesses that deal with him. As overlord of Amazon, by far the largest online marketer in the world (with more sales than the ...
Online donations to RSVP matched until Dec. 31
An individual donor has pledged to match all online...
Sampling the cables
Of the more than 250,000 cables that WikiLeaks say they have, they have released close to 1,500 so far, releasing 50 to 60 cables daily. The cables, which are communications between the U.S. State Department and U.S. embassies around the world, contain a variety of ...
FCC intends to apply some limits to broadband providers
LOS ANGELES — The Federal Communications Commission has come up with a new way to apply some rules that would force Comcast Corp., AT&T Inc...
Foursquare on why recycling your data is good for you
When Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley talks about recycling data, he isn't talking about being green...
Tourist family sues SeaWorld, claims child who saw orca attack is...
ORLANDO, Fla. — A New Hampshire family who witnessed the Feb. 24 death of a killer-whale trainer at SeaWorld Orlando has sued the company in state court in Orlando, claiming their child was traumatized by the event...
