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Lottery and Drones Bring Bipartisan Divisiveness

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 13, 2013 | D.G. Martin

Are you tired of the partisan divisiveness that is poisoning the political environment of our state and nation? Do you wish that the politicians from the two parties would work together more often on issues of common concern? Me...

Food Part IIIB: An Apple a Day Really Did Used to Keep the Doctor Away

Posted by Jeff Danner | Mar 11, 2013 | Common Science

Last week in Part IIIA of this series on food (here are the links to the previous columns Part I, Part II, and Part IIIA), I discussed two of the four biggest challenges in coming home from the grocery store with foods that...

North Carolina Must Rise To Its Unique Climate Challenge

Posted by The Commentators | Mar 8, 2013 | The Commentators

NASA’s James Hansen recently declared that climate change has become a planetary emergency. If humanity doesn’t begin cutting global emissions by 2015, the climate crisis will pass a point of no return – and a hellish condition...

Good Results From Virtual Education Won't Come Cheap

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 5, 2013 | D.G. Martin

Mention on-line education around some of my friends and you will get an emotional reaction. Some senior university faculty members teach classes filled with several hundred students and they worry that famous on-line lecturers...

Food Part IIIA: Wonder Bread is not Wonderful

Posted by Jeff Danner | Mar 4, 2013 | Common Science

This week in Part IIIA of my series on food (I had to split Part III into two as the length was getting a bit out of hand), I’ll be discussing the challenges of maintaining a healthy diet in our current food culture in the...

United Way Cutbacks

Posted by The Commentators | Feb 28, 2013 | The Commentators

The United Way of the Greater Triangle supports a plethora of worthwhile non-profit charitable organizations in Orange and Durham Counties. But its decision to pull the rug out from funding of the Seymour Senior Center wellness...

Dress To Impress

Posted by Kristin Tucker | Feb 27, 2013 | The Fashion Plate

Dress to Impress Ready to land your dream job? That’s the modern professional’s ultimate quest. You research, study and prepare to knock your next employer’s socks off. But how do you decide what to wear? Clothes could be the...

On The War On Deer

Posted by The Commentators | Feb 27, 2013 | The Commentators

I recently read a column by Karin Yates, which appeared in the February 10, 2013, issue of The Chapel Hill News and was entitled ILLOGICAL WAR ON DEER. It is the best article that I have ever read about the insanity and cruelty...

The Eerie Quietness Of A Once Thriving Island

Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 26, 2013 | D.G. Martin

Portsmouth where? Maine? Virginia? Like many North Carolinians, my friend had not heard of Portsmouth, North Carolina. He was resisting my push to visit Portsmouth in connection with a planned trip to Ocracoke Island to...

Food Part II: The Science of the Stomach

Posted by Jeff Danner | Feb 24, 2013 | Common Science

In the mid 1980s, when I was pursuing my degree, the discipline of Chemical Engineering felt itself to be a cross roads. The perception at the time was that traditional jobs for chemical engineers involving the design and...

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