NASA sent out a press release with two Mars-related news items yesterday. Whether this was an attempt to bury the bad news, you decide. First, the good news: An erstwhile freshwater lake in what’s now Gale Crater, whose rocks the Curiosity...
Occasionally the full ridiculousness of modern, rich-country existence slaps you square on the cheek. It should happen more often. This morning, I was washing off fresh raspberries when I told Maya, 8, “You know, this is kind of miraculous...
I’m in the middle of a bit of a website revamp. Moving from an aging, custom-designed HTML base (for which I learned Dreamweaver from a book. Ah, memories…) to a WordPress base. It’s not going particularly well, to be honest...
Aggressive climate action ASAP (left figure) minimizes future warming. Inaction (right figure) results in catastrophic levels of warming, 9°F over much of U.S. (Via ClimateProgress, IPCC) If the Intergovenmental Panel on Climate...
The small team still running Deep Impact, in orbit for going on nine years, on Aug. 8 lost touch with the spacecraft. Deep Impact smacked the comet Tempel 1 on Independence Day 2005 and went on to swing by a second comet, Hartley 2, and then hunt...
The worst of this insane tropical storm is happening parts north – Boulder, Lyons and environs. There geographic verticality is guiding once-in-a-generation (rarer yet, actually) rains into tight channels that are shooting stream flow...
Al Bartlett, Boulder physics professor emeritus who dedicated his post-retirement career to preserving Boulder and trying to get people not as smart as him (which was pretty much everybody) to understand the exponential function and its...
I played college soccer and have, in the ensuing 23 years, held firm to a no-pain, no-gain exercise philosophy. As recently as a couple of of weeks ago I still scoffed at the “fat burn” heart-rate levels my Polar FT7. I ran at 95...
The most important spacecraft since the Hubble Space Telescope has been felled by a couple of reaction wheels that stubbornly held to their predicted useful lives, NASA reports. Something about Kepler, despite its stubborn refusal to return...
They found Randy Udall yesterday — he had been hiking alone on a remote trail up in Wyoming’s Wind River Range, a place he knew well. Poles were still in hand, the Denver Post reports. “Randy left this Earth doing what he loved...
A year ago today, I had just practiced my TEDxMileHigh talk to an all-but empty Ellie Caulkins Opera House the day before the big show. There was a producer in the front row, typing away on her laptop, and, in the far reaches of the gallery, my...
Amid my sixth and most foolish soccer career at age 44 (indoor, over-30 coed, more challenging than it sounds), I’ve pounded my feet into plantar fasciitis twice now, joining Antonio Gates, Ty Lawson and untold legions of middle-agers (not...
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