Remote church service

COVID-19 has shone a light on the millennia-old balance between public and private worship

Oct. 23, 2020

As religious services went online to protect congregants from the coronavirus, a paradox emerged: Worshipers were connected via the internet to a potentially wide community, but it felt like a more private affair.

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Humans threaten the Antarctic Peninsula鈥檚 fragile ecosystem. A marine protected area is long overdue

Oct. 19, 2020

Protecting the peninsula is the most pressing priority due to rising threats Antarctica, the world鈥檚 last true wilderness , has been protected by an international treaty for the last 60 years. But the same isn鈥檛 true for most of the ocean surrounding it. Just 5% of the Southern Ocean is...

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Prickly poppies attract pollinators while deterring herbivores

Oct. 13, 2020

Prickly poppies are distinguished from other species in the genus Argemone by the lack of spines on the upper sides of leaves Prickly poppies, Argemone polyanthemos , were abundant and in full bloom along the Degge Trail in the greenbelt north Boulder. I enjoyed examining the blooms to see the...

Houses, allegedly destroyed by shelling, in Ganja, Nagorno Karabakh. Aziz Karimov/EPA

Nagorno-Karabakh: what do residents of the contested territory want for their future?

Oct. 12, 2020

War and forced displacement has returned with vengeance to Nagorno-Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh is engulfed in the flames of war. Half of its population has fled, while the remaining families cower in basements as artillery and drones destroy their houses and cultural institutions. A ceasefire on October 10, agreed after ten hours...

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If you are exhausted, you are not alone

Oct. 7, 2020

My fellow Buffs, we will get through this together. You must be exhausted. I am, and I would like to pause to reflect on how these are times that try our patience, our good humor, and to quote Thomas Paine, our souls. James W.C. White The pandemic constrains daily life...

Plan flying putting out fires by a neighborhood

Humans ignite almost every wildfire that threatens homes

Sept. 22, 2020

Wildfires are a natural disturbance for these regions, but when combined with climate change and housing growth in the wildland-urban interface, they become larger and more destructive.

Kamala Harris

With Kamala Harris, Americans yet again have trouble understanding what multiracial means

Sept. 1, 2020

News that Sen. Kamala Harris was Joe Biden鈥檚 choice for the 2020 Democratic vice presidential nominee drove speculation and argumentation about her identity. The big question appeared to be, 鈥淚s Kamala Harris truly African American?鈥

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Welcome back! Let鈥檚 make safety job #1

Aug. 24, 2020

You have the distinction of going to college in extraordinary times. You don鈥檛 need me to tell you this, of course. Headline writers describe the new school year with adjectives like 鈥済rim鈥 and 鈥渇rightening.鈥

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Academic freedom and academic responsibility

Aug. 24, 2020

As you may know, John Eastman, the 2020-21 Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization, has published an essay in Newsweek arguing that Kamala Harris might not be eligible to be vice president of the United States.

Intentionally mutilated head of Egyptian Pharaoh Hatshepsut. Elizabeth Ellis, CC BY-SA

Ancient cancel cultures: The defacement of statues in America replicates a tradition going back millennia

Aug. 20, 2020

The result of months of protests over racial injustice and monument destruction may seem like a modern form of American political speech. It鈥檚 not.

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