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January 1, 2018 in 5,096 words
23 Awesome Beginnings To Start Your New Year Right BEGINNINGS: THEY ARE IMPORTANT. So important, we put that in all caps and boldface. On this week’s episode, Alex Schmidt is joined by Cracked editors...
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January 2, 2018 in 3,840 words
How Little Fyodor Found His Style “The gig was at Boulder’s Left-Hand Books. We called it ‘Wall of Genius Presents: Strange Rituals.’ A regular said she was curious what the strange rituals were going...
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January 3, 2018 in 5,127 words
Scientific study of fake news reveals pretty much what you’d expect Here’s some real news about fake news that most people will probably find wholly unsurprising: It’s usually pro-Trump, and most...
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January 4, 2018 in 5,506 words
A long ugly story Sometime in the fall of 1979 I got a phone call from a friend of my older brother. He wanted to know if I was interested in making some money. Having no money, no job and nothing...
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January 5, 2017 in 4,539 words
The state of sex in the #MeToo world An interview with Boulder psychotherapist Jenna Noah In 2017, over 100 prominent men in entertainment, media and politics faced allegations of sexual misconduct....
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January 6, 2017 in 2,424 words
A NEW SILK ROAD China is investing billions in building pathways to Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Silk Road was established during the Han dynasty, beginning around 130 B.C. Markets and...
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January 7, 2017 in 4,195 words
A question of citizenship The Trump administration may be about to toss The Resistance a New Year’s hand grenade. The left-leaning website ProPublica last week reported that the U.S. Department of...
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January 8, 2018 in 4,643 words
It’s official: “Shitpost” is the word that best describes the internet in 2017 More to a shitpost that meets they eye. Each January, the American Dialect Society selects a single word or phrase that...
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January 9, 2017 in 4,843 words
Unite Colorado’s Plan to Snuff Out Partisan Political Bullshit Although politically engaged folks seem to be at odds over just about everything these days, there’s one thing on which they agree: The...
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January 10, 2018 in 4,675 words
Mandatory Evacuations Ordered in Burbank Where Floodwater Carried Away Vehicles; Gas Leak, Power Outage Reported Mandatory evacuations have been ordered in Burbank in a neighborhood of million-dollar...
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January 11, 2018 in 4,749 words
A Radical New Scheme to Engineer the World’s Glaciers A Princeton glaciologist says a set of mega-engineering projects may be able to avert cataclysmic sea-level rise. Geo-engineering, its most...
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January 12, 2018 in 4,475 words
Day by day, one by one A year after being released from detention, a Bangladeshi immigrant finds a new life in Colorado Three hundred and fifty-nine. That’s how many days Shoeb Iqbal has been free in...
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January 13, 2018 in 5,233 words
Your smartphoneis making you stupid, antisocial and unhealthy . So why can’t you put it down A decade ago, smart devices promised to change the way we think and interact, and they have – but not by...
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January 14, 2018 in 4,900 words
The Internet Broke Emergency Alerts America’s emergency notification systems were first built for war, and then rebuilt for peace. A false alarm in Hawaii shows that they didn’t anticipate how media...
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January 15, 2018 in 4,551 words
If Martin Luther King Jr were alive today, politicians would denounce him Modern day Republicans and Democrats often speak as if they love King, even as they excoriate the real heirs to his legacy...
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January 16, 2018 in 4,586 words
Colorado Sovereigns Charged With “Paper Terrorism” Going Down One by One In March, eight individuals were arrested along Colorado’s Front Range for threatening and harassing elected officials using a...
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January 17, 2018 in 5,266 words
In Colorado, a glimpse of renewable energy’s insanely cheap future Even with storage, new renewables beat existing coal. This month, energy nerds are very excited about a utility bid solicitation....
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January 17⅔, 2018 in 1,808 words
The History of the Lava Lamp At 50, the legendary relic of the college dorm room is still groovy after all these years At a certain moment in the late 1960s, the lava lamp came to symbolize all things...
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January 19, 2018 in 5,270 words
The welcome sign and a case of libel “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? ~ Donald Trump Wow. That’s harsh. But it’s a serious question, and it deserves a serious...
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January 20, 2018 in 2,409 words
TRAUMA ISN’T RARE. HOW TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT IN YOUR OWN LIFE, AND MOVE ON NOT OVER IT Trauma sounds like something that should only happen to other people. It’s portrayed as an extreme, distorting...
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