Subject: Science and Technology

• Woman's Best Friend

  January 23, 2007

• The Oracle

  June 29, 2007

• Rich Tower, Poor Tower

  July 26, 2007

• In for Life: Day Eleven of the Michael Tate Trial

  September 5, 2007

• Step Up the Fight Against Global Warming

  December 4, 2007

• The California Experiment

  December 4, 2007

• The Video Professor Loses a Round In His Battle Against Critics

  December 19, 2007

• Bill Gray, MIA at the Teach-In

  January 31, 2008

• Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson: Strange Couchfellows

  April 17, 2008

• Memories of Colorado’s atomic age

  September 17, 2008

• Rocky Mountain News plan to Twitter another funeral canceled after staff complaint

  September 18, 2008

• Twittering an F-bomb during the DNC

  September 18, 2008

• John McCain live on KOA this morning

  October 10, 2008

• Hear from the man behind KBFR, Boulder's pirate radio station

  Yesterday's blog "Pirate Radio Station KBFR Back in Boulder" provided info about an unlicensed radio signal using call letters that date back for the better part of a decade. In that piece, the main commentator was Rob Smoke, a former Boulder City Council candidate who's producing a regular talk show for the outlet, even though he's never met nor spoken to the person in charge of the venture. Today, meet the anonymous operator himself, who provided information via e-mail in the following mini-

  December 12, 2008

• Revelations in new Facebook and MySpace study: no duh

  The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a study last week that found young people are more likely to use social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace than old people. In other breaking news, milk mostly comes from cows and water is mostly wet.

  January 22, 2009

• Holding on by letting go, part one

  Bands in Denver are lucky. Getting gigs and building a fanbase locally are actually pretty easy. There's no shortage of small and midsized venues where a nascent group can cut its teeth, build the buzz and start to plot its graduation to theaters. But how do you get your music into the hands and ears of people who don't breathe our thin air? How do you tangle with the machinery of the music business? Do you have to? In my conversations with Denver musicians, this question comes up

  February 19, 2009

• Finally, proof that Boulderites weren't always vegetarians

  Glenn Asakawa, University of Colorado.The last steak knives ever to be used in Boulder. And you thought those arrowhead-like rocks you found in your flowerbed were cool. As several media outlets have been reporting, a cache of ancient tools, including knives and axes, has been discovered in a Boulder yard. University of Colorado researchers determined the tools, discovered by a landscaping crew in May, were from the Clovis era, meaning they're roughly 13,000 years old and likely used by some of

  February 27, 2009

• Channels 7, 9 and 20 won't wait until June for digital-TV conversion

  "The Digital Conversion Will Leave Some Coloradans in the Dark," and blogs like this one note that a percentage of locals who've been receiving free, over-the-air TV during the analog era will lose this service once stations switch to all-digital broadcasting. Concerns about problems like these contributed to the feds' decision to delay mandatory transition from mid-February until June. However, outlets are being given latitude to determine their own schedules, which explains why yesterday aft

  March 18, 2009

• Jonathan Coulton is what happens when a computer geek starts making music

  January 15, 2009

• The End Is Near

  The Bad Astronomer’s book chronicles the end of the world.

  October 16, 2008

• For Colorado's largest power co-op, going green will mean taking down the King of Coal

  April 16, 2009

• Last rites on the Rocky Mountain News's Twittering

  September 25, 2008

• The Ice Man

  When Al Gore and other global-warming experts want to come in out of the cold, they turn to Boulder's Konrad Steffen.

  November 1, 2007

• From Dusk Till Dawn

  July 17, 2008

• Cloudy Weather at Denver Meteorologist Conference

  The forecasters, however, have sunny dispositions.

  June 26, 2008

• Partly Sunny

  CU students have twice won the Solar Decathlon. Can they make it a three-peat?

  November 1, 2007

• Hole Lot of Trouble

  February 28, 2008

• From the week of April 23, 2009

  April 23, 2009

• Denver Biodiesel Co-op Finds Sustainable Housing

  Homeless for a time, the DBC breathes easy in its new digs.

  September 27, 2007

• Move Over, MySpace

  With friends like these...

  August 30, 2007

• 'Room for More

  Get up close and personal with fungus.

  August 9, 2007

• Pole Position

  Ruby Hill-area residents want to protect their views from eleven-story utility poles, but Xcel thinks it has the juice.

  July 26, 2007

• Auraria Campus Goes Green

  Students get solar-powered.

  May 17, 2007

• Joseph Arthur & the Lonely Astronauts

  Sound Bites

  April 12, 2007

• The Devil’s in the Details

  Turning LEGOs into a massively multi-player online game.

  March 8, 2007

• The Blogtrotters

  What's the next big trend? Follow the bouncing ball.

  January 25, 2007

• Wii Love It

  Nintendo finally gets 1-Up on the competition.

  December 14, 2006

• Coming Zune

  Once again, Microsoft is chasing Apple in the hipster-hardware game. Will it make sweet music this time?

  October 12, 2006

• Rocket Man

  David Grinspoon is popularizing science, one alien joke at a time.

  October 12, 2006

• CU scientists identify Mars fishin' hole

  Image by Gaetano Di Achille/University of ColoradoWhat Mars' Shalbatana lake might have looked like 3.4 billion years ago. Even as an Atlas V rocket built by Centennial's United Launch Alliance blasted off yesterday on a mission that may lead to man's return to the moon, University of Colorado at Boulder scientists pinpointed an interesting landing spot for the next trip to Mars. A team led by CU-Boulder Research Associate Gaetano Di Achille has discovered evidence of a shoreline on a portion o

  June 19, 2009

• Blog, Blog, Blog

  June 25, 2009

• Tonight at Forest Room Five: See behind the blog with Mizel Museum's "Blogging as Self-Portraiture" discussion

  John Common will break down blogging for you. As someone who's been blogging since before that was a word -- I created and maintained a personal journal-type site back in 1998, using HTML hand-coded in Notepad and uploaded to my server via FTP -- I've been there for most every change the medium has seen. But one thing that has remained a consistent strength throughout all that time is the personality that shines through in the best blogs. In a way that almost no print media offers (a few top-ti

  June 29, 2009

• Colorado podcasters, unite and take over

  If you're a Denver-area podcaster -- or someone looking to start a podcast or even just interested in the medium -- head down to the Wynkoop tomorrow night and meet some of your fellow 'casters. There's no real agenda beyond the group's general purpose of "lively discussion, hands on practice and sharing of new tricks of the trade." Organizer Kit Seeborg says the future may bring some more targeted events -- sessions of how to add podcasting to existing websites and a start-to-finsih demo of vid

  July 20, 2009

• A sunny day for Secretary Solarczar, but a slog ahead?

  ​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was back in Colorado today, August 4, touring a Longmont solar panel company as a way of pushing the Obama administration's vision of a clean energy economy. But that vision, which involves collecting abundant solar power from a procession of solar farms set up on public lands, might be a little soggy in spots. Not that the plant Salazar visited today isn't beacon of light in a bad economy. Abound Solar is hardly the biggest operator in the field, b

  August 4, 2009

• Geek in the Galley: The toaster of tomorrow

  ​See that picture above? Yeah, that's exactly what you think it is: a toaster with a pre-determined Pop Tart setting. And that is just about the coolest thing in the world. Or in the world of toasters, at least. The toaster pictured is the one that came with my room in Beaver Creek -- a virtual wonderland of things cooler and more functionally solid than the things I have at home. At home, I have two toasters (because I am an old short-order cook and having only one toaster around makes m

  August 7, 2009

• Coathangr goes mobile with release of iPhone app

  ​Denver-based Coathangr, a social media service aimed at the fashion conscious (read about it here), has just made it easier than ever to collect your friends' opinions about that pair of pumps on sale -- or to let them giggle at a distance when you spot a fashion disaster out and about -- with the release of their free iPhone app. The app lets you quickly and easily snap a pic from your iPhone and send it to Coathangr for your friends to comment on. Perhaps just as handy, you can use the

  August 19, 2009

• George H.W. Bush's speech to schoolchildren: There's no room for drugs in space

  George H.W. Bush.​As noted in our blog about a Douglas County school allowing parents to opt out of letting their kids watch President Barack Obama's speech to children on Tuesday, we pointed out that other Commanders-in-Chief have directly addressed younglings -- among them President George W. Bush, who asked America's kids to each donate a dollar to the plight of children in Afghanistan back in 2001. But a closer comparison can be made to a September 1991 teleconference conducted by Duby

  September 3, 2009

• OMG! Douglas County teens face horrors of sexting

  ​I am back from the front lines of the kiddie porn wars with some shocking news: The prosperous, sprawling suburbs of Douglas County conceal a steamy underbelly of underage sexual exhibitionism. Youth are being exploited right and left. Usually by each other. Sexting -- the insidious, technologically inevitable, highly adolescent, so-trendy-even-Dateline-is-upset practice of sending nude or semi-nude photos by cell phone -- turns out to be as much of a problem in the upscale cul-de-sacs

  October 6, 2009

• Larkburger now using 100 percent all-natural wind power

  Larkburgers, fries and shake made with renewable energy​ Larkburger is making a name for itself with such menu items as hand-cut fries seasoned with parmesan and truffle oil -- but Larkburger president Adam Baker hopes that with the switch to wind power for 100 percent of its energy use, the company will also become known for its eco-friendly philosophy. The fast gourmet burger joint that got its start in 2006 in Edwards and opened a second location in Boulder this spring (read Jason Shee

  October 13, 2009

• SMA Solar to convert Denver into Sunny Island

  Sunny Island isn't much of a vacation spot.​You know the decision of a business to relocate is a big deal when the state's governor offers to serve as a de facto publicist, as Bill Ritter did yesterday during the announcement that the German firm SMA Solar Technology AG will be opening a plant in the Denver area that's expected to create 300 fulltime jobs. These workers will be making solar inverters that turn direct current from solar panels into alternating current: DC/AC, as opposed to

  October 27, 2009