Talk Derby To Me…
My favorite spring sporting event has to be the Kentucky Derby. What stands out most during this historic horse race is difficult to decide–the sleek and athletic thoroughbreds, the diminutive yet wiry jockeys in their...
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Local Deal: 60% Off Hot Water
Posted by Jeff Danner | May 5, 2011 | Common Science
On April 30th the Orange County Campus of Durham Tech hosted a Sustainability Fair focusing on Solar Energy. When most people think of solar energy they think about generating electricity from the sun. Who isn’t at least a...
Read MoreNorth Carolina books for spring reading
Posted by D.G. Martin | May 3, 2011 | D.G. Martin
What should I be reading this spring? Some of you know that I get this question from my friends each year when the weather starts to warm up. And, you remember, I often respond with a list of a variety of books, each of which...
Read MoreRoyal Wedding Fever…
Posted by Kristin Tucker | Apr 29, 2011 | The Fashion Plate
You know you’ve got it. Even if you don’t have the fever, you know that you’ll be one of the billion people across the world viewing what is hyped to be the social event of the century. Thanks to modern technology we don’t have...
Read MoreNothing Matters More than Oil, Nothing
Posted by Jeff Danner | Apr 27, 2011 | Common Science
If you read the introductory blog for Common Science you will remember that I promised to address both local and global issues. I am starting with a global issue because we are at the very beginning of the coming scarcity of...
Read MoreLegislative trading and sausage making
Posted by D.G. Martin | Apr 26, 2011 | D.G. Martin
“If someone ties a love note to a nuclear bomb, do you take ‘em both?” That was State Senate Minority Leader Martin Nesbitt, a Democrat, complaining about the legislature’s Republican majority tying a controversial budget cut...
Read MorePhotosynthesis Part I: Oxygen Gets All the Press
Posted by Jeff Danner | Apr 25, 2011 | Common Science
Any discussion of petroleum starts with photosynthesis. Actually, pretty much any discussion of anything should start with photosynthesis. No photosynthesis, no us, no Chapelboro. Somewhere in your high school chemistry class...
Read MoreAn Introduction to Your Host
Posted by Jeff Danner | Apr 25, 2011 | Common Science
Welcome to “Common Science” your Chapelboro home for discussions of science and how it impacts our lives here in our community. My name is Jeff Danner, I am a Ph.D. Chemical Engineer (sorry no pocket protector) and have been a...
Read More“They are trying to eat Big Bird”
Posted by D.G. Martin | Apr 18, 2011 | D.G. Martin
The hundreds of William Friday’s friends and fans who gathered to hear him speak last week might not have guessed that the institutions he worked so hard to build were threatened by the just-released legislative budget...
Read MoreWhat kind of paper money and why?
Posted by D.G. Martin | Apr 11, 2011 | D.G. Martin
What is money? I asked that question again recently when I heard that State Representative Glen Bradley had introduced House Bill 301 to “study whether this State should adopt a currency to serve as an alternative to the...
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