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The men and women elected to the Colorado General Assembly (the state Legislature) may have a wealth of life experience as lawyers, ranchers or business owners. But when it comes to economics, most of them could use a little help—from undergraduate
At the 75th Street Wastewater Treatment Facility are, from left to right: Chris Douville, the city of Boulder’s coordinator of wastewatertTreatment; Cole Sigmon, process optimization specialist; David Bortz, assistant professor of applied
A palpable air of digital decrepitude pervades Lori Emerson’s time-warped laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder. Geriatric relics of the computer revolution with names like Vectrex, Kaypro and Commodore Amiga exude the strange pungency of aged electronics, vaguely musty with tart plastic undertones.
Some of the smallest airborne particulate matter poses large risks to human health, but bigger blobs aren’t necessarily benign. That’s one conclusion of Jason Neff, associate professor of geological sciences and environmental studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Faced with a sharp question from a critic following a talk about progressive Islam at the University of Colorado Boulder in early November, Omid Safi was ready.The professor of Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill nodded
David J. Wineland, a lecturer in the University of Colorado Boulder physics department, has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics.Wineland is a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder and internationally recognized
What you don’t know won’t hurt you, goes the old canard, but what you believe can make a difference when it comes to pain relief, and not just in a subjective way. When you expect that a drug or placebo will relieve pain, and it does, it’s not simply a matter of fooling your brain.
It seems, at first blush, to be something of a no-brainer: strengthening protections on American intellectual property rights (or IPRs) — on everything from drugs to music to technology — would be a boon to the national economy.After all, we hardly
In certain political and religious circles, the notion of moral relativism — that there is no objective “right” or wrong, only individual opinions — is not just anathema, not merely abhorrent. It is the very root of decadence and the collapse of
When biomass burns, including during wildfires, it releases a pollutant that can cause health problems at high concentrations. Photo credit: NOAA.A smoke-related chemical may be a significant air pollutant in some parts of the world, especially in