Growing up in the South, you don’t have a lot of opportunities to test out your winter gittin’ around skills. And with a big snowstorm about to him my hometown area, here are a few hard learned lessons about moving around in the white stuff.
Cowboy boots and ice don’t mix.
Always wipe the snow off the [...]
The first ever Yellowstone BioBlitz took place in August and uncovered more than 1200 species in a two-square mile area of northern Yellowstone, including several species not previously known to exist in the park. While Yellowstone’s wolves, bison, bears, and elk typically receive the most attention-both from scientists and tourists-the focus of the BioBlitz was [...]
McKinsey and Company’s central conclusion from their U.S. Energy Efficiency report says much about the energy efficiency opportunity in the US:
Energy efficiency offers a vast, low-cost energy resource for the U.S. economy – but only if the nation can craft a comprehensive and innovative approach to unlock it. Significant and persistent barriers will need to [...]
What a relief. After 15 months of avoiding surgery to repair an increasing hierniation in my neck last week, Boulder Neurosurgery Association performed an Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.
The outpatient procedure provided immediately relief to pain and numbness down my right arm into my thumb and forefinger.
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“Why do people feel pressure to have an answer for every question?” Even when they don’t know Jack, they make it up on the fly. Ten years ago our training courses included a short video clip of college students at some of the more prestigious universities speaking at length with great confidence about [...]
Are our schools prepared for the challenges our kids will face this century? This decade? Alvin Toffler suggest our schools were built to prepare the rural American child for the industrial revolution. Get to work on time, enjoy repetitive tasks and essentially fall in line. Agree? Perhaps we have advanced somewhat since the late 1800’s [...]
The excellent series on the History Channel, 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America, continues to be very educational and quite entertaining. Watching these 10 events, I feel compelled to add and question if perhaps other unexpected events would be in my top 10. Their events are:
Massacre at Mystic
Shays’ Rebellion: America’s First Civil War
Gold [...]
Does ice melt due to weight and/or friction of a boot, skate or tire creating a thin layer of water? Experiements are unable to prove this leading some to suggest special qualities of H2O in it’s “solid” form. You can find more in The New York Times article, Explaining Ice: The Answers Are Slippery. [...]
The Economists in The proper study of mankind writes:
SEVEN hundred and forty centuries ago, give or take a few, the skies darkened and the Earth caught a cold. Toba, a volcano in Sumatra, had exploded with the sort of eruptive force that convulses the planet only once every few million years. The skies stayed dark [...]
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