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Gigafactory 3: Tesla’s miracle in Shanghai

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OK, it’s been a lousy year — that much we can probably all agree on — so it would be cool if an old-fashioned,...

Boulder’s suit against ExxonMobil is based on a pack of lies

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The Boulder City Council has done some astonishingly stupid things when it steps outside of its core areas of incompetence, which include managing growth,...

The Oroville Dam: A cautionary tale from 1969

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Curt Gentry was no Nostradamus or Edgar Cayce, but he made a prediction in 1969 that would have done either of them proud —...

Orwell got it backwards

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Recently someone in Iran or Turkey had an insight: Just as war is too important to be left to the generals, peace activism is too important to be left to the pacifists. As a result, Islamists around the Middle East are getting in touch with their inner peace ...

The pleasant surprises of October

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Tipping point alert: October 2013 may go down as the month that American public opinion decisively tipped in favor of legalizing marijuana and consigning 76 years of vicious prohibitionist reefer madness to history’s landfill...

Obama’s silly speech

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The most charitable thing that can be said about Barack Obama’s graduation address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy is that it was silly...

The eagle has landed — with extreme prejudice

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Wind turbines have killed at least 67 eagles in the last five years, and probably a lot more, according to a report issued last September by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists...

Redeveloping 11th and Pearl

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Karlin Real Estate, the company that bought the building at 11th and Pearl that once housed the newspaper that was once known as the Boulder Daily Camera (before it dropped “Boulder” and “Daily” from its name), recently presented its plans for the redevelopment of ...

Revolution comes to the Midwest

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The protests that have been sweeping the Middle East for the past month spread to the Middle West last week...

2016 and the demographics of social issues

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Republicans are feeling pretty good about their chances of winning the presidency next year. They’ve got a strong (if currently overcrowded) bench of candidates and a lot of the likely issues are breaking their way...

How to unsettle settled science (and settled scientists)

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Talk about getting hoist with your own petard. Australian climate scientists have succeeded in convincing the management of the country’s main research institution, The Commonwealth...

The hills are alive with the sound of fracking

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Bad news, anti-frackers. The hills are alive with the sound of fracking...