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Time magazine dubbed Margaret Mead one of the 20th century鈥檚 100 most influential scientists and thinkers. It also depicted Mead as a sloppy researcher. A University of Colorado Boulder professor has now debunked the source of that slander.
The fight against fires begins before the first spark鈥攚hen homeowners in the wildland-urban interface choose whether to remove trees and bushes near their homes.
Sex is apparently like income: People are generally happy when they keep pace with the Joneses. They鈥檙e even happier if they get a bit more than their peers.
鈥淣ature teaches beasts to know their friends,鈥 wrote Shakespeare. In humans, nature may be less than half of the story, a team led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers has found.
While descending Cathedral Spire in Yosemite Valley, Richard Laver lost his route. But after a night stranded on a ledge in darkness, he found an answer that had eluded mathematicians for two decades.
Not just anyone can vividly trace a thread weaving through a zebra鈥檚 stripes, a partly crumbling brick wall, a Jackson Pollock painting, a Mozart piano sonata, Dr. Seuss鈥 鈥淔ox in Socks,鈥 Gwendolyn Brooks鈥 鈥淲e Real Cool,鈥 and even a rap duet by Mos Def and Slick Rick.
Ten years ago, Leslie Irvine was on her high horse when it came to homeless people keeping companion animals. But Irvine began to think differently while working at an animal shelter.
It鈥檚 hard not to notice the widespread patches of dead trees along the I-70 corridor. For many, there is a next logical thought: All those dead trees are going to provide fuel for a wildfire. But that conventional wisdom might be wrong.
During a general election year, the political divide in America is frequently on display in living color in the form of those ubiquitous 鈥淩ed vs. Blue state鈥 maps. No surprise, then, that many Americans believe that political polarization is on the rise.
In a United States still haunted by the legacies of race and slavery, even asking questions pertaining to race is disquieting to some. Even so, University of Colorado Boulder researchers have been exploring racial bias in police shootings for more than a decade.