The #NRA, in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre of children and elementary school teachers and staff, has its friends out in full force. One thing I’ve heard in several media interviews now is “proud gun owner.” This is NRA boilerplate. I bought insoles for my daughter’s skates this morning. I own them, technically.…
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A few months ago, Micah Williams, TEDxMileHigh's newest (and only full-time) employee, asked if I might write a blog post about climate change. I said "sure," and then I thought about what I could say about climate change that wasn't being said.
I used to cover the topic at the Daily Camera, and still follow it…
A video grab of the Dragon capsule approaching the International Space Station on Oct. 10. The capsule splashed down off the California coast on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (Courtesy NASA/SpaceX)
As I write this, SpaceX's Dragon space capsule is on a boat, having splashed down 250 miles off the California coast on Sunday. Monsters loom off…
Indiana Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock lit up the media yesterday with the following comment:
The only exception I have to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother. I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God. I think that even when…
When things go wrong, it's always nice to be able to blame someone else. Thanks to Richard Johnson, MD, of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, we can blame our extra pounds on a 20-pound primate that lived about 15 million years ago.
Richard Johnson, MD, and his new book.
And, of course, fructokinase, triggered, of…