I bought Microsoft Band 2 a few weeks back ($200). I'd looked at the Band 1 a year ago and was a bit scared off by its extreme flatness; the Band 2 has a nice arch. I jumped on it.
This post is about heart rate monitoring accuracy, but before I go on, the Band 2…
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Solar panels tend to generate substantially less electricity when in garages.
Given the success of the global climate talks in Paris, it's time to post a hyper-local piece on our household's greatest carbon-mitigation endeavor: our solar panels.
Specifically, I got a wild hair to compare the volume occupied by the stack of solar panels to the volume of the…
Jack Galvin, taken in his Fletcher School office on October 18, 1999.
John R. “Jack” Galvin, the son of a bricklayer who rose to become NATO supreme allied commander of European forces and dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy died on September 25, of complications of Parkinson’s disease.
New York Times and Washington Post…
I was hanging out at the YMCA of the Rockies Estes Park craft center a couple of weeks back, scrolling through emails as my daughters glued colorful glass shards to pale pine cigarette boxes, when an email came in. Subject line: A review of Jars to Stars.
We were outside at a picnic table, under a…
Items from the New Horizons launch press packet, which have been hanging out in a Southwest Research Institute folder for nine-and-a-half years.
You may have heard: NASA has a mission flying past Pluto tomorrow. New Horizons. The thing's been in space for nine-and-a-half years. I was there at the launch, covering it for the Boulder Daily Camera. Wrote…