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Of sea monsters and searching for answers

May 082013

Tweet Imagine the looks on the faces of several off-roaders in New Zealand last week as they were riding down the beach when they came across a massive rotting corpse. [more...]

Posted by Caleb Hendrich on May 8, 2013 at 4:00 pm Opinion Tagged with: Calvin and Hobbes, discovery, Discovery Channel, exploration, Killer whale, Loch Ness Monster, Marine biology, NASA, New Zealand, scientific inquiry, Scientific method, Sea monster, YouTube 1 Response »

Thorium: The safe, alternative nuclear energy

Apr 162013

Tweet The world still runs on fossil fuels, which we all know is completely unsustainable and toxic to the environment. The mantra of pursuing an “all of the above” approach [more...]

Posted by Kevin Reilly Jensen on April 16, 2013 at 11:00 am Opinion Tagged with: alternative energy, Fukushima, Japan, NASA, Norway, Nuclear, Nuclear power, Nuclear reactor, safe, thor, thorium, United States 10 Responses »

Former NASA scientist creates DIY marijuana grow system

Apr 092013

Tweet It started on the forbidding terrain of Mars and is ending in the marijuana grow rooms of Colorado. “The classes have been overwhelming, in that most everything that goes [more...]

Posted by Austin Briggs on April 9, 2013 at 10:00 am News, The Well Tagged with: Austin Briggs, Cannabis cultivation, Chamberlain, Colorado, Kennedy Space Center, Loveland Colorado, NASA, Plant 23 Responses »

The future could (and should) be now

Jan 242013

Tweet I know, like me, you are all disappointed by the White House’s refusal to build a Death Star. Apparently the administration “does not support blowing up planets.” For some [more...]

Posted by Sarah Romer on January 24, 2013 at 3:00 pm Opinion Tagged with: apple, Crocs, Death Star, Earth, Enterprise, Mars, NASA, Space, Space exploration, Star Trek, Star Wars, United States, White House No Responses »

Colorado State celebrates Native American History Month

Nov 132012

Tweet Over the course of November, CSU has been celebrating Native American History Month with a variety of events to raise awareness of the Native American population and its history, [more...]

Posted by Amanda Zetah on November 13, 2012 at 8:00 am News, The Well Tagged with: Ethnicity, Indigenous, NASA, Native American, Native Americans in the United States, November, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, United States No Responses »

Elections are helping me clean up my Facebook — excessive political fervor is getting annoying

Oct 112012

Tweet How many friends do you have on Facebook? How many annoying political posts does your thread get spammed with a day? Way, WAY too many. I think it is [more...]

Posted by Sarah Romer on October 11, 2012 at 2:00 pm Opinion Tagged with: Barack Obama, Denver, Facebook, Google, NASA, Voltaire, Washington Post, YouTube No Responses »

The use of marijuana among college aged people is surprising

Sep 202012

Tweet On a recent stroll to class, I had my thoughts about the meaning of life interrupted by a scraggly looking gentleman asking if I would please sign a petition [more...]

Posted by Res Stecker on September 20, 2012 at 12:00 pm Opinion Tagged with: Cannabis, Colorado, John Hancock, Legality of cannabis, mile high, NASA, Nobel Prize, United States 10 Responses »

The importance of space

Aug 302012

Tweet I didn’t grow up with my head in the clouds. I grew up with my head in the stars.I was taught to always push to be better, to expand [more...]

Posted by Sarah Romer on August 30, 2012 at 10:30 am News Tagged with: NASA, Neil Armstrong, Space exploration, Space Shuttle, United States 2 Responses »

NASA awards Colorado company space taxi grant

Aug 032012

Tweet Sierra Nevada Space Systems received one of three NASA grants to develop a privatized space flight industry. The Ventura County Star reports that the grant will total $212 million [more...]

Posted by Kyle Grabowski on August 3, 2012 at 11:31 am COins, Colorado INsider Tagged with: Boeing, Dream Chaser, International Space Station, NASA, Sierra Nevada, SpaceX, United States No Responses »

Bill Nye (the science guy) claims climate change as cause of wildfires

Jul 022012

Tweet In an interview with CNN Los Angeles this morning Bill Nye (and his great bow tie) defends his belief that climate change is the overarching cause of the swath of wildfires [more...]

Posted by John Sheesley on July 2, 2012 at 12:12 pm COins, IN The Know Tagged with: Bill Nye, Climate change, CNN, Colorado, Environment, Los Angeles, NASA, PlanetarySociety, Wildfire 2 Responses »