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I'm still buried under snow and work, so blogging will remain slow for a while if you're worried. I'll try to trickle out some good stuff in the meantime, like this fabulous prediction by our favorite Oracle, Mr. Pat Robertson....
Posted on January 3, 2007 11:50 AM • 3 Comments
You may have heard of the case in Atlanta last week of a woman in her 80's shot by police. They were raiding her house on a no-knock drug warrant, she apparently didn't realize it was the cops and shot...
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Posted on November 29, 2006 1:44 PM • 3 Comments
Charlie Rangel is the incoming chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, which is the one of the most important committees in the House (you'll read some articles saying that it is the most important, but it competes for...
Posted on November 20, 2006 1:05 PM • 1 Comments
So there I was, sitting in CU's version of the Memorial Union, which on college campuses everywhere is the place where hungry undergrads find food and companionship without thinking about whomever is being "memorialized" in the Memorial Union. Eating a...
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Posted on October 4, 2006 1:35 PM • 8 Comments
Perusing the NY Times science section online, a headline caught my eye: "Subway Sleuth Clears Dinosaur of Cannibalism." Despite originally being a geologist (or because of it?), dinosaurs never really interested me much. And the cannibalism hook doesn't interest me...
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Posted on September 27, 2006 12:58 PM • 7 Comments
Of course when you show irreverence for a hyper-popular icon, especially one recently passed, you're going to hear about it, and I did in the comments. That's ok, I'm a big boy and can take the heat. But it is...
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Posted on September 19, 2006 11:04 PM • 5 Comments
I thought I was going to be able to let this one slide, but after yet another dining-out conversation about it today it seems it won't go away. I refer to the Science Times of this past Tuesday and William...
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Posted on July 3, 2006 12:37 AM • 4 Comments
But back to Roadside Geology. What book do customers who view the Roadside page eventually end up buying? At an astonishing 77% it's the Christian self-help book
The Power of the Praying Wife. Huh???? Second, at 13%
Posted on July 3, 2006 12:16 AM • 3 Comments
I don't love the sentiment behind it, but I do love the push. As described on All Things Considered tonight, the hyper- conservative (socially) group Focus on the Family has been pushing the FDA to require labels on condom packages...
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Posted on June 21, 2006 8:17 PM • 2 Comments
I haven't written about science and sports in a while, but here's a big piece of news that just caught my eye. It's about risk analysis. Like Pennsylvania, the state of Colorado does not have a helmet law. When I...
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Posted on June 12, 2006 6:32 PM • 10 Comments
I've been having continuous conversations with some friends about workplace productivity. A good friend was just stolen away from his old job by a former boss (now his new boss). The job switch also means moving to a new city...
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Posted on June 12, 2006 1:11 PM • 1 Comments
The other day, while writing about the probability that the state of Texas executed an innocent man in a tragic misapplication of scientific evidence, I also wrote that one of the reasons I am opposed to capital punishment on practical...
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Posted on May 13, 2006 3:25 PM • 13 Comments
Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
