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Water Part III: Get the Salt Out

Posted by Jeff Danner | Apr 1, 2012 | Common Science

“If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get freshwater from salt water, that would be in the long-range interest of humanity and would dwarf any other scientific accomplishments” – President John F. Kennedy April...

Members of the Same Community

Posted by The Commentators | Mar 30, 2012 | The Commentators

I am a supporter of the Occupy Movement. Not least because I have spent much of my life fighting for social and economic justice, and against any form of arbitrary authority. Recently, I have become unhappy with some of the...

Bookwatch returns with authors who were worth waiting for

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 29, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Those who missed North Carolina Bookwatch on UNC-TV while it has been off the air to make room for “Festival’s” special programming can look forward to this Sunday afternoon at five o’clock. Bookwatch returns with an encore...

Chapel Hill is Hemorrhaging Tax Dollars

Posted by The Commentators | Mar 26, 2012 | The Commentators

It’s official! Walmart is coming to town! Well, not our town, but Chatham County, just over the line. And to the victor go all the spoils. Walmart has announced it will build a huge 148,500 square foot store on the 15-501...

The Etch A Sketch problem is not with Romney's campaign

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

“What you need to do as soon as you can is to move as far to the right as you can in good conscience.” A very liberal and savvy North Carolina political advisor gave that advice to the winner of a Democratic primary in a...

Water Part II: Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink

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

After last week’s hiatus, I am picking back up with my series on water. If you want to start at the beginning check out “Water Part I: Is God a Mathematician?” Part II was going to be about the desalination of water. As I...

There goes my Britannica status

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 19, 2012 | D.G. Martin

It was a great run. You know what I am talking about: since the news about the end of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s print edition, as Scott Hollifield, editor of the McDowell News, writes: “Writers and commentators have waxed...

Sad Update to the Glen Lennox Saga

Posted by The Commentators | Mar 19, 2012 | The Commentators

Four years ago, in the Ides of March, those of us living in or around the Glen Lennox Apartments were shocked and awed as Grubb Properties presented plans to destroy most of the apartments and trees, build many big-story...

Carrboro Commune is like Donald Trump…

Posted by The Commentators | Mar 19, 2012 | The Commentators

I am a supporter of Occupy. I am a supporter of civil disobedience. But I do not support assault, when it is physical or verbal. And I do not support trespass on private property, which I regard as violence against people and...

Lessons from the Explosion in the iPad Factory in China

Posted by Jeff Danner | Mar 19, 2012 | Common Science

Last week I started a series about water with “Water Part I: Is God a Mathematician”. I started working on Part II, but find I am too saddened by the loss of 59 lives in a dust explosion in an iPad factory in China to write...

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