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Beauty is truth, truth beauty
They just don’t make ’em like they used to, eh Keats? Built in obsolescence means that $1,000 (or more) smartphones have scratched up screens...
Brunch boom
Sunday brunch was invented in Boulder in 1978 at eateries like Nancy’s Restaurant. These places treated breakfast as a serious meal. There was a...
Sharing views on media, migration and radicalism with our Tajik sister...
A cohort of nonprofit leaders, university professors and journalists from Tajikistan visited Boulder last week to discuss the role of the media in the...
Scenes from a life
In the earliest days of my residence in the People’s Republic, I lived next door to a guy who designed and crafted molds for...
37 crows, a pile of West Nile virus research, and one...
Since 2013, Dr. Greg Ebel and a team of researchers at the Colorado State University Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases laboratory, or the Ebel Lab,...
Beyond the swinghouse
After a failed attempt, or three, we finally caught up to Lao Tizer on a Friday afternoon after he had wrapped up a band...
Fighting for today
It’s been a little over a year since the City of Boulder and Boulder and San Miguel counties teamed up and filed a lawsuit...
Case pending
Martin hadn’t planned on coming to the U.S. He really hadn’t ever thought about leaving his native Cameroon. Part of the Anglophone minority, he...
Forecasting nature
In 1973, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke suggested that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Accurate predictions of the weather several...
The greatest scientists are artists
Humans like taking the scenic route when we can. It means we have a little time to appreciate the world around us, to sit...
Passport to the world
Alfredo Muro’s mother, like most mothers, wanted her son to pick a more stable career than music. But Muro, like most headstrong youngsters, wanted...
A curious night at the theater
Half of a geodesic dome fills most of the Grace Gamm Theatre stage at the Dairy Arts Center. The dome is built of thin,...