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Farewell to Brood XIX

Posted by Jeff Danner | Jun 11, 2011 | Common Science

Brood XIX, or the Great Southern Brood, has left us and will not return for another 13 years. I will miss them. Is you want to see some great pictures and hear a recording of the cicadas check out the The Cicada Invasion by...

Another war we cannot win?

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

One lesson America is reluctant to learn: Wars are easer to declare than to win. Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Libya elude the kind of total victory our country achieved in World War II. And we have other declared wars...

Traveling In Style…Part I

Posted by Kristin Tucker | Jun 7, 2011 | The Fashion Plate

Packing Perils Summer vacation season is upon us. By car, by plane, by boat, by train….you’re bound to be headed somewhere this summer. That means you have the daunting task of packing ahead of you, which takes time, energy,...

Is Your Cell Phone Trying to Kill You

Posted by Jeff Danner | Jun 5, 2011 | Common Science

Last week the World Health Organization (WHO) listed cell phones as “possibly carcinogenic to humans”. You may be more disposed to listen to an important international health organization than your favorite Local Buzz science...

Petroleum: 300 Million Years of Sunlight

Posted by Jeff Danner | Jun 1, 2011 | Common Science

This is part IV of my series on Petroleum. To start at the beginning read, Nothing Matters More Than Oil, Nothing, Photosynthesis Part I: Oxygen Gets All the Press, and Photosynthesis Part II: Glucose Needs a New Agent. If you...

A short North Carolina history lesson

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 31, 2011 | D.G. Martin

Here is my list, compiled about 10 years ago of the most important events in 20th Century North Carolina. It is a good time to reassess, but I am sticking with what I wrote back then. The election of 1900. The white supremacy...

Home-Bound Holiday Weekend…

Posted by Kristin Tucker | May 28, 2011 | The Fashion Plate

This weekend officially kicks off the summer travel season. The highways and skyways are full of beach, mountain and Vegas-bound folks ready to get their summer started. I had a shot at spending the next four days in paradise....

An aerotropolis in North Carolina?

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 24, 2011 | D.G. Martin

But what about North Carolina airports? How do our major airports and associated metropolitan areas fit into the concepts for the future of the world’s mega airport cities discussed in the new book, “Aerotropolis: The Way...

Closet Cleansing…Steps to De-Clutter and Feel Better

Posted by Kristin Tucker | May 21, 2011 | The Fashion Plate

When was the last time you REALLY surveyed your wardrobe? Last season? Last summer? The last time you moved five years ago? Confess! Your closet needs a barium enema and you know it. I’ll be the first one to admit that mine...

Shelter from the Storm

Posted by Jeff Danner | May 20, 2011 | Common Science

This question to Common Science was submitted by Boykin Bell of Chapel Hill. “It’s the bottom of the first inning. Rain is falling steady, a little thunder. Kids are holding metal bats and standing in the wide open...

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