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The Widefield Aquifer, Pollution, and Remedies

The Widefield Aquifer serves as a cautionary water pollution tale for Southern Colorado and beyond. It supplies drinking water to over 80,000 people in Widefield, Fountain, and Security, or Southern El Paso County. The first documented case of water pollution in the Widefield Aquifer occurred in 1982. Since then, humans have contaminated it incessantly. This

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Microtransactions and the Video Game Industry

I love video games. They allow me to connect with friends, talk on a headset, strategize to eliminate the opposition, and so on. But there’s trouble in paradise. A recently adopted business model involving microtransactions mixes poorly with video gamers. Microtransactions are small online financial transactions. They’re useful to some industries, but in the world

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The Reason There are so Many A******s in the World

Denis Leary had a song in his one-man show “No Cure for Cancer” called Asshole. In it, he details examples of people he considers eligible for the tainted designation. A lot of observational standup comedy is devoted to complaints about assholes. Anal oriented individuals certainly don’t appear to be an endangered species. Which is too

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