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Well drilling has deep impact on Great Plains’ health
Oil wells and natural gas may have made individual Americans rich, but they have impoverished the great plains of North America, according to new research...
High density, low confidence
Perhaps the biggest issue in Boulder, and Boulder County to a growing extent, is density. How will we accommodate the ever-growing number of people who work and live here if we can’t build up and we can’t build out...
Where’s the heat?
In the 2004 action film The Day After Tomorrow, global warming melts enough polar ice to disrupt natural ocean currents, plunging the northern hemisphere into a new ice age. While the story is clearly in the realm of science fiction, the premise of the movie is based...
Black holes
On April 2, four members of the Somali-based terrorist group al-Shaba stormed the campus of Garissa University in Northern Kenya. By the end of the ensuing standoff with Kenyan authorities, 147 people were dead and another 79 wounded...
Queering the classroom
A group of educators at the University of Colorado Boulder have created a oneof-a-kind event — perhaps the first of its kind in the world...
Feeding change
We waste a lot of food in Boulder County. At the same time, some people go to sleep hungry here. And those people tend to fall into racial and economic minorities...
