Mashable published my story on what is probably going to be the future of drug testing today. I figured I’d add a bit of backstory. I came across CU Toxicology and their high performance liquid chromatography/dual mass spectrometry...
I write quite a bit for UCH Insider, the University of Colorado Hospital’s biweekly online magazine. Late in the game last cycle, folks in Anesthesiology mentioned that one of their docs had a daughter skiing in the Olympics. Oh, we said...
Walking off a short jog yesterday with an old friend from Canton, Ohio who lives in Sydney and has kids with strong accents, I came across a man flying a drone over a house around the corner. “Louie, sorry man, I’ve got to talk to...
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...
The Denver Post did a sort of quasi book-review/reax piece today to Weekly Standard writer Jonathan Last’s What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster. Cute, but no panacea One of the few things...
I’m a fan of MedPage today, but these folks are seriously under the copy-cranking gun and often publish summaries of studies absent of perspective. Today’s story, “After-School Soccer Little Help in Obesity Battle” is...
I received an email from the #GunAppreciationDay people today. I figured I’d annotate it. My comments follow the **. Help us fund advertsing and spread the word far and wide… On Drudge, FOX News and Facebook Gun Appreciation Day is January...
I do a lot of writing for University of Colorado Hospital. They received 23 of the 70 people wounded in the Aurora theater shootings starting at 1:06 a.m. on Friday, July 20. The department and the hospital at large were packed to capacity at the...
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...
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...
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...
NASA has released a phenomenal image: Taken by the the Suomi NPP spacecraft on January 4. Ball Aerospace built the NPP spacecraft; the instrument, the snappily named Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), is Goddard’s work...
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