The alleged, though really no-longer alleged, Aurora theater shooter’s apartment building was a busy place today, hours after James Holmes shot 71 people, killing 12 as of this posting. Another five are in critical condition at University...
I was planning on riding my bike over to University of Colorado Hospital this afternoon, but a three square block area through which I normally pedal has been cordoned off. You see, James Holmes, 24, the alleged Dark Night murderer — who...
My #TEDxMileHigh talk, “Colorado Mavericks,” is up on YouTube at http://bit.ly/SvJvqT; a bit of background here: http://bit.ly/JM8xly. Final draft of the talk: Making the leap I’m Todd Neff. So many stories of epic success (personal...
I’m getting into road biking, seeing that soccer, even over-30 coed, is not a long-term fitness solution for 43-year-olds. On July 4, I went for a morning ride with my friend Greg Laugero. Greg was a late arrival to cycling, I think roughly my...
It took a week or so, but the stories linking U.S. extreme weather to climate change have started to roll out. A few links courtesy of the the Society of Environmental Journalists: SCIENTISTS: ONGOING WEATHER EXTREMES OFFER PROOF OF CLIMATE...
Given the play of the Waldo Canyon (Colorado Springs), High Park (Fort Collins) and Boulder (Flatirons) wildfires, I’m getting notes and calls from folks worried that flames are approaching our home in east Denver, 20 miles from the nearest...
My book, From Jars to the Stars, won the 2011 Colorado Book Award for History at the annual Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book ceremony in Aspen last Friday. This is particularly gratifying to me because, being the history category...
A politically neutral map of record temperatures in the United States, courtesy of Climate Central. If you’re in Virginia, check it out before the state legislature bans the use of the term “record temperature” in reference to...
From the unintended (or probably intended, given the source) irony department: the first three news items from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ e-mail summary this a.m. For those living in caves and U.S. Senators from Oklahoma...
Washington D.C. hit 99 degrees Fahrenheit today; we in Denver have been in that neighborhood a few days already this June, and are headed back this weekend. The average June high is here supposed to be 83. We’ve had roughly zero precip; the...
I’ve been distracted — maybe to the point of being primarily focused — on a 10-minute talk I’m giving sometime between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. this Saturday at TEDxMileHigh. It’s at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the...
@AirSpaceMag posted my #ORS story “Satellite In a Week: Can a tiny DoD office change the aerospace establishment?” http://t.co/uiPCLNIo via
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