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Advice to My Nephew on Whether to Study Science or Engineering

Posted by Jeff Danner | Nov 28, 2011 | Common Science

I am posting from St. Louis, Missouri this where we are visiting family for Thanksgiving. My nephew here is in his senior year in high school and is trying to decide where to go for college. He’s a good student and is trying to...

Prime Minister Bowles?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 23, 2011 | D.G. Martin

We are following in the footsteps of Greece and Italy. Just like them, we have lost control of our nation’s budget, and along with them, our economy is tanking. Just like them, we have a bunch of people who are hooked on...

Help Toy Chest Program Serve Others

Posted by The Commentators | Nov 22, 2011 | The Commentators

For the past, five years, I have been involved in the Orange County Department of Social Service’s Toy Chest. The program, a part of the department’s annual Holiday Program, provides toys, food and clothing to thousands of...

Carbon Monoxide – The Silent Killer

Posted by Jeff Danner | Nov 21, 2011 | Common Science

In my very first Common Science blog on chapelboro.com I told you that had perhaps the best high school chemistry teacher ever, Mrs. Ciolkosz. In this week’s blog I am going to share with you something she taught me. But, first...

The Art of Tailgating

Posted by Kristin Tucker | Nov 20, 2011 | The Fashion Plate

A fall Saturday without Carolina football just doesn’t seem right. Any college football fan would agree that a mid-week game or bye weekend for your team leaves you longing for the tight spiral of the pigskin leather, the...

Eleven-Eleven-Eleven

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 14, 2011 | D.G. Martin

November 11, 2011. It will be remembered by many of us as the day Carolina beat Michigan State in the inaugural NCAA Carrier Classic on the deck of the Navy aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson. Others of us still remember the 11th...

Your Mother the Plant

Posted by Jeff Danner | Nov 13, 2011 | Common Science

When I told people that I was going to start writing a weekly science blog for www.chapelboro.com, the reactions I got ranged from rampant enthusiasm to overwhelming skepticism. When I told the skeptics that I was planning to...

Still weaving for a living

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 7, 2011 | D.G. Martin

There was a time when events near Kinston a few days ago would have been headline news. Here is what happened. A Russian military-style cargo airplane took off from the Kinston Regional Jetport loaded with a North Carolina woven...

It's Getting Crowded in Here

Posted by Jeff Danner | Nov 7, 2011 | Common Science

Last week’s announcement that the world’s seven billionth person was born has prompted a barrage of news coverage, most of it lacking in any cogent analysis. In today’s blog you will get the Common Science view on this landmark...

My two cents on the quarter-cent

Posted by The Commentators | Nov 3, 2011 | The Commentators

About twenty-five years ago, I was a young girl attending Carrboro Elementary and listened to my dad record a PSA in support of funding for our schools on this radio station. I never would have guessed that twenty-five years...

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