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The curation of discovery: Part 2

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This week’s serialized installment of The curation of discovery begins with a continuation of the conversation between myself and Ava Hamilton, an Arapaho and...

Student Guide 2010: Tune in to CU’s student radio station

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Turning the dial to Radio 1190 is like opening a box of chocolates, as Forrest Gump would say. You never know what you’re going to get. OK, so if you checked the online program calendar for 1190, you’d know what you’re getting. But it’s much more fun to just tune to...

Processed food nation

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The typical American diet is filled with heavily processed foods, filled with high-fructose corn syrup, salt and preservatives. What is this costing us in terms of our health and the environment’s health...

The pros and cons of industrial-scale solar

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It’s an undeniably gruesome image: A bird soars over the Mojave desert, and suddenly, revoltingly, catches fire, streaks momentarily like a small meteor, and then seems to disappear, leaving only smoke. Seen from afar, some are calling them “streamers...

Hemp: The fiber side of cannabis

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Correction: The Hemp Industries Association was mistakenly referred to as the Hemp Initiative Association in one instance in this story...

Get ready: When apocalypse comes, what will you offer the world?

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To hear some people tell it, doomsday is just around the corner. From...

Reskill yourself

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Following in the footsteps of their grandparents, an increasing number of people are expanding their sustainable living education and learning the skills needed to tackle projects such as growing and preserving more of their own food, making cheese and keeping ...

Student Guide 2010: For studying, there’s no place like Norlin

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When it comes to busting out your favorite highlighter and cracking open that four-inchthick textbook, the place you choose to study is almost as important as the studying itself. Students seem to approach studying in different ways, even though they all have ...

Tussock moth invasion

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If the tops of your Douglas-fir trees are looking a little bare and brown, there’s a possibility the Douglas-fir tussock moth has moved into your neighborhood...

Now you know: Sept. 7, 2023

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Coming up: Get a glimpse into some of the county’s most sustainable homes at Colorado Green Building Guild’s (CGBG) Green Home Tour on Sept. 9....

Student Guide 2010: Minor fun

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You don’t have to be 21 to have a good time One of the big pieces of entertainment news this summer was the merger of the Fox Theatre and the Boulder Theater. These two bastions of Boulder music and entertainment are now under the same management, parent ...

Organic online

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Buying groceries is a familiar ritual. The overhead lighting in a too-cool air-conditioned warehouse casts the aisles in an unreal light. A zombie-like shuffle among fellow customers is polite yet disavowing, an implicit acknowledgement of estrangement even in a ...