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Jay Robinson's Advice For President Obama

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 10, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Why doesn’t U.S House Speaker John Boehner go ahead and recognize the hard facts? The president won the election. A majority of the country wants rich people to pay more taxes while everybody else’s rates stay the same. In the...

An Ode to President Carter

Posted by Jeff Danner | Dec 10, 2012 | Common Science

My plan to write a column about methane hydrate has now blossomed into a four part series on global warming and the future of the plant. Part I covered the science of methane hydrate. Part II explained the reasons why we are...

School Colors

Posted by The Commentators | Dec 6, 2012 | The Commentators

This is Raleigh Mann. If you watched the UNC men’s basketball game against the Indiana team recently, you had to notice the color red. Red and white are the team colors for the Hoosiers, and always have been. The same can be...

Innovation. What do you mean?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 3, 2012 | D.G. Martin

“Innovation is the key.” We are hearing these words of wisdom all the time, aren’t we? And we nod our heads in agreement, remembering our pocket computers and communication devices that we still call phones. Or...

The Greatest Invention of the 21st Century

Posted by Jeff Danner | Dec 3, 2012 | Common Science

“Berkeley is Berkeley but Cal Tech is Cal Tech” – Hamadri Das (1) Want to win a Nobel Prize and also go down in history as the greatest inventor of the 21st century? Then find the breakthrough that makes artificial...

Merry Must-Haves

Posted by Kristin Tucker | Dec 2, 2012 | The Fashion Plate

Holiday soiree season is here! No doubt your December calendar has started to fill up. Time to celebrate! And it’s possibly time to shop or re-invent something special from your existing wardrobe. In true holiday spirit,...

Common Science Flash Post: Flu Season Update

Posted by Jeff Danner | Nov 30, 2012 | Common Science

I’ll be posting my regular weekly column Sunday evening as usual, but something caught my eye earlier today. Hence this mid-week “flash post”. My column on October 7, “Why This is an Important Year to Get your Flu Shot”, laid...

Politics, no. Lee, Jill, and Bookwatch, yes.

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 26, 2012 | D.G. Martin

“Tell me more about Jill and Lee and their new books.” I wanted to talk politics and more about why Romney lost and McCrory won, but these readers wanted only to hear more about the upcoming books by their favorite authors, Jill...

Methane Hydrate Part II: All You Really Need to Know About Global Warming

Posted by Jeff Danner | Nov 26, 2012 | Common Science

The hodgepodge of information available on global warming and climate change can be bewildering, sometimes intentionally so. Let me see if I can clear away some of the clutter and boil it down to a couple of numbers that you...

A Call for Peace

Posted by The Commentators | Nov 20, 2012 | The Commentators

I am Miriam Thompson, a member the Triangle Branch of Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, Jews for a Just Peace NC and part of a growing number of local Abrahamic faith leaders seeking a just and secure...

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