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Thrifting local: The season of giving — and giving back
A couple of years ago, a group that got its start in the late 1970s blocking railroad tracks in a successful effort to close Rocky Flats ran into some budget trouble...
The test of a moral society
In the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Matthew Wynia aided relief efforts on an off-coast hospital ship, where it quickly became clear...
City of Boulder recommends controversial Nextdoor.com
In what the City calls an effort to increase community engagement, Boulder recently started using the neighborhood social media platform Nextdoor.com to communicate with...
Budget deadline for gutting the EPA has arrived
When the Trump administration released its 2018 draft budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in May, it was met with wide-ranging criticisms due...
With Mountain Lion, Apple brings iOS and OS X a big...
There's a good reason that people use the word "ecosystem" when discussing Apple products...
Samsung will modify phones if Apple ban request goes through
On the heels of its loss in court against Apple over patent infringement claims, Samsung has acknowledged that it would modify its smartphones to comply with any court demands if Apple successfully convinces the court to ban Samsung phones...
Coal mining accidents involved first Latino families in Boulder County
Due to the fact that the early Latino history of Boulder County was never recorded well and is therefore largely missing, it is important to unearth any information regarding the identities of early Latino residents...
Boston Marathon bombing and terrorism like it is nearly unpreventable
There wasn't much that anybody could have done...
Hunger strikes and indefinite detention in Guatanamo Bay
It's been 11 years since the first detainees were brought to Guantanamo Bay. But the future of the prison, and the fate of the men inside it, is far from certain. With 59 detainees at Gitmo currently on hunger strike, by the military’s count, here’s a primer on what’...
Same-sex marriages begin in nation’s capital
WASHINGTON — As a cellist and soloist performed Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are," Darlene Garner and Candy Holmes walked down the aisle Tuesday morning and became among the first gay couples to legally marry in the District of Columbia...
Here is what memory looks like physically
Scientists have finally witnessed the movements of the molecules that form memories, a breakthough that may lead to better understanding of how memories are made...
