Californians utilize and dispose of a vast quantity of paper, plastic, and cardboard products daily. Practically every food item, beverage, appliance, toy, or electronic is coupled with some form of disposable material. For many, these disposable items ultimately end up being thrown into the trash. People take throwing garbage in the trash for granted. They […]
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Many studies have shown how music makes people smarter, but did you know that supporting live local music has many more benefits than just increasing your brain power? Colorado Springs has a thriving music scene, and many burgeoning as well as seasoned musicians love getting out there to show off their talents in front of
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“To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.” Locke “The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.” Machiavelli I am certain that I am not the only writer who is having difficulty
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We had just spent two days going over every bench mark for the elementary and junior high portion of our school district’s math curriculum when the high school Calculus teacher stunned the room. “We don’t need any bench marks for high school,” he said. “Some kids just can’t do math and we shouldn’t prevent them
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Back in the early 1970s, I wrote a talking blues. I had gotten to be a halfway decent picker, and I managed to record the song acceptably, I thought. My old friend Andy Abbott was passing through town, and we sat down with a couple of Manhattans to listen to it: Talking Thomas Edison Back
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” –Edward Abbey Trees grow tall and deep, with their roots often connecting in complex systems that are among the Earth’s largest organisms. These forests can grow in the alpine for thousands of years, quietly quaking in the breeze and withstanding the most
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