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Extinguishing the Thrill

With the passage last fall of Colorado Amendment 64 legalizing marijuana for those 21 and over for use in private (not in public), it was the end for me of a long strange trip that began 49 years ago.
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Tagged Amendment 64, legalizing marijuana, Paul Danish, pot, William Buck
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Extracting Fields of Black Gold

Back in 2010 I wrote a piece about how Big Science — the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) computer center — was moving out of Boulder County and Big Oil — ConocoPhillips’ research and training campus — was moving in.
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Tagged ConocoPhillips, louisville, NCAR, oil, storagetek
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No home to roam

Last October Ted Turner offered to give the city of Boulder a herd of 25 buffalo to put on city open space along the Boulder-Denver Turnpike.
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Mining the moon

I’ve been thinking a lot about Richard Gertsch (A&S’69) lately because I’ve been thinking about the 50th anniversary of Scott Carpenter’s (Aero’49, HonDocSci’00) orbital flight on May 24, 1962, and the melancholy state of the space program. The iconic image of today’s program is that of a 747 hauling the space shuttle Discovery to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
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Tagged asteroids, excavation, lunar, mars, mine, mining, NROTC, Peter Diamandis, resources, Richard Gertsch, scott carpenter, space, space shuttle Discovery
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Head-banging at old CU

There’s been a lot of talk about traumatic head injuries in football this year. I figured if anyone associated with Buffalo football would have an interesting take on the issue, it would be CU’s two-time All-American guard/linebacker and Rhodes Scholar Joe Romig (Phys’63, PhDAstro’75).
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Tagged football, g-force, head trauma, impact, Joe Romig, larry cundall, rehabilitation, Rhodes Scholar, shock, shock waves reflecting
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For whom the road tolls

Other than drinking coffee in the UMC and beer at The Sink, is there any more widely-shared experience among CU-Boulder alumni than driving up the turnpike from Denver and seeing Boulder and the university from the top of Davidson Mesa?
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Power to the People

Boulder is going to have a city election this fall, and the hot issue is power to the people. No, it isn’t one of those pesky ’60s flashbacks. It’s about electricity – who will supply it and how it will be made. For years the city fathers and mothers have been pushing Xcel Energy to supply Boulder with more carbon-free
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“Oops-dang” radioactive moments at Rocky Flats

Japan’s nuclear mess brings to mind some local nuclear “oops-dang!” moments at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant south of Boulder.
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Jammin’ with The Woz

Paul Danish tells a story about an icon and his colorful past.
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The best meal ever at the Gold Hill Inn

Dinner at the Gold Hill Inn is always a special occasion, but no visit to the inn was more special than the one my wife Sue and I made Sept. 23.
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