Clint Talbott
- Roger Pielke Jr. boils it down to a question: How long will the world embrace climate policies that have failed? More precisely, when will it embrace policies that are more likely to lower greenhouse-gas emissions and meet the world’s energy demand?
- Douglas R. Seals has amassed scientific evidence indicating that exercise, weight loss, good nutrition, including salt restriction, can cut your chances of getting cardiovascular disease. Now he’s researching pills that might have the same effect.
- CU scholars eye the next frontier of Renaissance literary criticismThe disappearing bison of the 19th century appear far, far removed from Hamlet, prince of Denmark. But Heather James sees a connection, and it is a variation on a theme of
- Only eight months after the tsunami, permanent houses had been provided for victims in the southern town of Hambantota, shown here, the home district of Sri Lanka's president. Tamils and Muslims on the eastern and northern coasts waited up to five
- CU alum Josette Sheeran, the executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme, is on a mission to fight world hunger one cup at a time.
- Young people who have inherited a genetic variation leading to increased feeling of dizziness from smoking their first cigarettes have a higher risk of becoming addictive smokers.
- About 90 percent of those afflicted with Parkinson’s disease have trouble speaking audibly, but researchers led by CU’s Lori Ramig has developed a treatment that helps most patients and is being used in 50 nations.
- In the last two decades, people have used more fertilizer than was used in all of human history; meanwhile, the incidence of disease in humans and animals has been rising. A trio of CU researchers find evidence that those facts may be related.
- Soviet photographers recorded Nazi atrocities, but state’s message changed after Stalin and after Soviet Union’s collapse; CU professor notes the significance of overlapping narratives and memoriesSoviet photojournalists working for the country’s
- Nathan Hale, the famous American revolutionary, was hanged by the British in 1776 for being a spy and is reputed to have eyed the noose with this stoic comment: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”Moses Dunbar, a little-