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Don't Know Much Biology

Posted by Jeff Danner | Jul 2, 2012 | Common Science

My oldest child enters high school this fall and, like most freshmen, will be starting her sequence of science classes with biology. From my perspective biology is not the logical starting point for high school science and it is...

Who was that candidate who went to the wrong Rockingham?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 1, 2012 | D.G. Martin

A few years ago I wrote a column about a mythic U.S. Senate candidate who showed up in the city of Rockingham, instead of Rockingham County where he was supposed to be campaigning. Lots of people have asked me, “Who was...

Scandal at UNC

Posted by The Commentators | Jun 29, 2012 | The Commentators

Once again, scandal has reared its ugly head at UNC. It seems that coincidentally 18 UNC football players were all enrolled in the same Black American Studies Class. That in itself might not raise eyebrows, but when lectures...

Seven new books every North Carolinian should know about

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

There is no way to read them all. No, and we cannot even know about all of the more than 1,000 books about our state or by authors with North Carolina connections. But every year there are a few books that, for one reason or...

High Fructose Corn Syrup, One Lump or Two?

Posted by Jeff Danner | Jun 24, 2012 | Common Science

“Corn isn’t fit for pigs to eat.” Alvin Danner Between 1980 and 2010 the percentage of adults in the US who were obese more than doubled, from 15% to 33%. A number of root causes have been suggested for this “obesity...

Favorite Summer Fashion Trends

Posted by Kristin Tucker | Jun 21, 2012 | The Fashion Plate

The official days of summer have arrived. That means beach trips, poolside parties and backyard bashes are in the mix. What’s hot this summer on the fashion scene? Bask in bright colors and bold prints. Fortunately...

Clyde Edgerton: Translating memories into fiction

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 20, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Is he just writing about himself? The many fans of Wilmington-based author Clyde Edgerton often ask this question when they are reading his books a they come to parts that are just too real to be made up. As Edgerton explains on...

How to save a mountain

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 18, 2012 | D.G. Martin

There were lots of reasons some people in Avery County wanted to stop a rock mining operation on the beautiful Belview mountainside. *Tracy and her Aunt Ollie, because preliminary blasting operations had cracked the foundation...

Fracking will affect air & water quality in the Triangle

Posted by The Commentators | Jun 18, 2012 | The Commentators

Triangle residents may not realize that fracking areas run through Wake, Durham, Chatham, Orange, and Lee counties, affecting the water supply of 2.4 million people. This map shows watersheds and fracking areas (slide 2 at this...

Bronze Age Part II: The Case of the Missing Copper

Posted by Jeff Danner | Jun 18, 2012 | Common Science

“. . . For the Ocean that was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say ‘the Pillars of Heracles’ [Straits of Gibraltar] there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia...

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