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Campus shortcuts
When you’re ready to step up from just getting around campus to getting around faster Engineering students have most if not all their classes in the Engineering Center, but most majors aren’t that lucky. Students, especially those in the College of Arts & Sciences...
ATLAS Speaker Series
Schedule of Events — Fall 2013 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – How Do They Work? Sept. 9, 4 p.m. ATLAS 100, Cofrin Auditorium Free Dan Grossman will share his recent experiences with MOOCs as an instructor working to reach a broad audience with a challenging...
International Film Series
www.internationalfilmseries.comBack for another season, this time equipped with newfangled digital projection equipment, the International Film Series presents offers thought-provoking documentaries, art-house cinema, film festival favorites and campy B-movies. ...
EPA under pressure to protect pollinators
Boulder-area beekeeper Tom Theobald, three other beekeepers from around the country and five environmental organizations filed a joint lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency for the agency’s alleged failure to protect bees and other pollinators from ...
Plight of the monarch
There are few species on this planet that inspire awe quite like the monarch butterfly. Its migration alone, which spans thousands of miles, is enough to get children interested in science and make adults appreciate the wonders of nature...
Can new home construction fit with a sustainable economy?
The burst of the housing bubble in 2007 shined a spotlight on the big weak spot in economics: human behavior...
Cottage foods 2.0
The 2012 Colorado Cottage Foods Act was supposed to allow farmers and entrepreneurs the opportunity to make foods in their home kitchens and sell them to consumers, offering farmers an extra revenue stream and entrepreneurs a testing ground for business ideas...
Boulder’s green economy brings in the green
Five and half years after the collapse of the global financial market, fingers are still being pointed: at the wealthy for reckless trading, at the poor for living above their means, at Republicans for deregulating, at Democrats for runaway spending...
Speeding toward fitness
"A seven-minute workout can be efficacious,” says Glen Cordoza, co-author of Power Speed Endurance: A Skill-Based Approach to Endurance Training, a book detailing Crossfit founder and triathlon coach Brian MacKenzie’s revolutionary short, intense approach to training...
Personal healing and preservation: An herbalist’s manifesto
Boulder herbalists aren’t doctors, and they don’t claim to be. Their mission is to listen to people and to educate them on options — on centuries-old remedies...
