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The Great Escape

Backwash

All the cool kids are playing Six Degrees of the Denver Gentlemen.

Peer Pressure

CU students pitch in against alcohol abuse.

Bite Me

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From the week of February 26, 2009

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Rail Roaded

Finding a solution to I-70 traffic has been one long, strange trip. But the end could be in sight.

The Legend of Leeroy Jenkins

Ben Schulz issued the battle cry that echoed across World of Warcraft.

Bon Savants

Tuesday, March 6, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

From Russia, Without Love

Hackers are selling rape porn through university websites -- including student pages at UCD.

By the Book

A new project could revolutionize the way students learn.

The Skeptic

Celebrated and shunned, CSU's Bill Gray is taking heat in the global-warming debate.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Celebrated and shunned, CSU's Bill Gray is taking heat in the global-warming debate.

Monkey Business

CU's animal attraction isn't limited to recruiting parties.

Divining Intervention

Skeptics say dowsers are all wet. But Greg Storozuk believes.

What's the Word?

Crossword-puzzler Al Sanders has had his ups and downs.

Devil in the Details

Four years after his baptism by fire, mystical troubadour Jim White returns with a batch of sacrificial “hick-hop.”

Origin of the Specious

A CU instructor suggests that men can't help themselves: They're just born rapists.

Living Proof

A CU instructor suggests that men can't help themselves: They're just born rapists.

Global Warning

What do you get when greenhouse gases inspire greenhouse guesses? A heated argument--but not much scientific agreement.

Mars or Bust

The sky's no limit for these Colorado scientists. They're heading straight for the Red Planet.

A New Way to Fret

Meet Steven Ray Liedlich, upright guitarist.

Tuning Out ...

Meet Steven Ray Liedlich, upright guitarist.

I Think I Can, I Think I Can

Take a ride on a personal-transportation project fueled by Landmark rhetoric.

TOUGH TO SWALLOW

CU WAGES A DRUG WAR OVER THE PRENATAL VITAMIN MATERNA.

How does the Internet really see you?

So that's what I look like to the Internet? (Click to enlarge.)​ You ever wonder how the Internet sees you? Googling yourself is one way to find out, but what if you've always yearned to see yourself as a cross between a bar graph and abstract art? Well, now thanks to the MIT's Sociable Media ... More >>

A CSU grad student's rolling robot is turning heads, but what the hell do we do with it?

​Colorado State grad student Greg Schroll has taken the idea of the spherical robot -- basically a robot contained in a ball, as seen above -- and made it a reality. Well, not quite a reality, but close enough for Schroll to be named one of Popular Mechanics' 10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2 ... More >>

Invention Convention

​Colorado State grad student Greg Schroll has taken the idea of the spherical robot -- basically a robot contained in a ball, as seen above -- and made it a reality. Well, not quite a reality, but close enough for Schroll to be named one of Popular Mechanics' 10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2 ... More >>

Backbeat writers weigh in on the year's best national releases

​Colorado State grad student Greg Schroll has taken the idea of the spherical robot -- basically a robot contained in a ball, as seen above -- and made it a reality. Well, not quite a reality, but close enough for Schroll to be named one of Popular Mechanics' 10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2 ... More >>

Cry for Yelp: The popular website has buckled to pressure, but it ain't enough

​Atif Mehana came to the United States from Egypt two decades ago. The 58-year-old spent more than a decade selling seafood to tourists in Miami, and saved enough to open a second eatery in 2008. But now he's broke. Who's to blame? He says Yelp, the megapopular website that allows users to ... More >>

Study: Not having legs definitely a disadvantage for runners

​Oscar Pistorius was told he couldn't compete in the 2008 Olympics because his prosthetic legs gave him an unfair advantage. The ban was eventually lifted, but the debate lacked an authoritative conclusion until early this month, when a team of six researchers -- a CU professor, student, and f ... More >>

Cherry Creek High students cleverly use NY Times blogs to wow college admissions directors

​The college searches of six Cherry Creek High School students are getting national exposure thanks to "The Choice," a New York Times blog series starting today -- and it's a win-win situation. Why? Do the math.

Robocop in Detroit, and five other statues cities should have

Look at him -- he's so statuesque. ​There are no plans to erect a statute to Robocop in Detroit, according to Mayor Dave Bing. There is, however, a Rocky statue at the base of the Philadelphia Museum of Art after one was placed at the top of the Rocky steps in Rocky III. While it could argued, ... More >>

The first track from ROM mysteriously appears

​We don't know much about ROM. We know we've been seeing stickers around town, which is what made us to look it up in the first place, and now we know there's a Kickstarter project trying to fund a flexi disc. We also know it's made up of two people in Colorado who have been making music for a ... More >>

Sorry, 45-year-olds: Take Me Home Tonight is for '80s babies

​We don't know much about ROM. We know we've been seeing stickers around town, which is what made us to look it up in the first place, and now we know there's a Kickstarter project trying to fund a flexi disc. We also know it's made up of two people in Colorado who have been making music for a ... More >>

Frasca's Bobby Stuckey at the center of Denver Cochon 555 pig fight

You be the judge. ​Cochon 555, the porkeriffic national competition that trots into Denver on Sunday, April 3, recently announced the five Colorado chefs combating for the Prince of Porc title: Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Euclid Hall and Bisto Vendome); Kelly Liken (Restaurant Kelly Liken); Alex ... More >>

Fast love: The KillaCycle brought this couple together

You be the judge. ​Cochon 555, the porkeriffic national competition that trots into Denver on Sunday, April 3, recently announced the five Colorado chefs combating for the Prince of Porc title: Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Euclid Hall and Bisto Vendome); Kelly Liken (Restaurant Kelly Liken); Alex ... More >>

Another Earth is ostensibly a film about second chances

You be the judge. ​Cochon 555, the porkeriffic national competition that trots into Denver on Sunday, April 3, recently announced the five Colorado chefs combating for the Prince of Porc title: Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Euclid Hall and Bisto Vendome); Kelly Liken (Restaurant Kelly Liken); Alex ... More >>

How do vatos keep their sneakers so white?

You be the judge. ​Cochon 555, the porkeriffic national competition that trots into Denver on Sunday, April 3, recently announced the five Colorado chefs combating for the Prince of Porc title: Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Euclid Hall and Bisto Vendome); Kelly Liken (Restaurant Kelly Liken); Alex ... More >>

Film maker Anne Makepeace on We Still Live Here and the Indigenous Film and Arts Festival

Photo by Jonathan ReedAnne Makepeace and Allie Humenuk filming with Wampanoag Indians​Anne Makepeace is quick to tell people that the Wampanoag is the tribe that greeted the Mayflower. After all, what better way to quickly illustrate how forgotten this tribe is? Almost everyone in America know ... More >>

Doomsday countdown, day four: Project Icarus and the asteroid that didn't destroy earth -- yet

Jerry Bruckheimer's prophesy was by far the most entertaining.​Every sensible person knows that when Earth is eventually destroyed, it will be by a huge asteroid like the one that killed all the dinosaurs. We learned this mostly from Jerry Bruckheimer, but Jerry Bruckheimer probably learned it ... More >>