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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...

North 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...

Royal 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...

Nothing 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...

Legislative 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...

Photosynthesis 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...

An 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...

“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...

What 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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