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UFO Traces

October 23, 2013 | Filed under: One Good Paragraph

Over 300 billion stars populate our galaxy, and our galaxy is just one of another 100 or more billion galaxies, so the universe must be teeming with intelligent life. Given that we live in a middle-aged galaxy, other life forms are surely far more advanced than we are. This means …

Perspective for Hire

  • A Voice for Compromise: Councilwoman Jill Gaebler
    A Voice for Compromise: Councilwoman Jill Gaebler

    I caught Colorado Springs Councilwoman Jill Gaebler rushing from a television interview. Her eyes glinted with excitement and a bit of mischief as she described a Read more →

  • Interview with Joe Raso, CEO of the Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance
    Interview with Joe Raso, CEO of the Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance

    In 2012, Colorado Springs, Colorado leaders combined two local organizations, the Chamber of Commerce and the Economic Development Corporation, into one entity, the Colorado Springs Regional Read more →

News

  • The West Nile Virus Remains an Unwelcome Visitor
    The West Nile Virus Remains an Unwelcome Visitor

    Despite its relative obscurity, the West Nile Virus still poses a potential threat to nearly anyone in America, which means its origins and evolution need to be understood. The West Nile Virus is carried by Read more →

  • White Tattoos Are In
    White Tattoos Are In

    Over the past few years, a new style of tattoo has made an appearance in the ink world. Specifically, the artist still creates a shape or design, but instead of using black or various colors Read more →

  • In Memory of Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013
    In Memory of Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013

    Digging Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down Read more →

Opinion

  • Time to Hit a Home Run in Downtown Colorado Springs
    Time to Hit a Home Run in Downtown Colorado Springs

    The controversy surrounding the proposal to relocate the Colorado Springs Sky Sox’s stadium has become a misguided battle between perception and reality. The impression many citizens seem to have is that Mayor Steve Bach is a puppet of some very Read more →

  • The Blight of Young Adult Fiction
    The Blight of Young Adult Fiction

    Getting booed by a class of thirteen-year-old girls only required four words from me: “I didn’t like Twilight.” The clamor subsided once I launched into some logical reasons behind the choice: Bella is a poor Read more →

  • Lab-Grown Meat: Your Dinner of the Near Future
    Lab-Grown Meat: Your Dinner of the Near Future

    Modern technology has made food cheaper, more transportable, pathogen resistant, and even amusing. Still, many manufactured foods contain little nutritional value, and produce markets around the globe continue to become increasingly geographically homogeneous. Food industrialization Read more →

Analysis

  • American Hospitality, Russian Style
    American Hospitality, Russian Style

    A few friends and I show up to a nondescript storefront on the corner of a busy intersection surrounded by food chains and major corporations. Waiting in anticipation for the store to open, we organize Read more →

  • Fifty Shades of Grey: Pop Goes Erotica
    Fifty Shades of Grey: Pop Goes Erotica

    E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey continues to sweep the nation like a hurricane, leaving confusion and commotion in its relentless path, especially given the buzz over an upcoming film adaptation. The first in a trilogy of novels often referred Read more →

  • Iron Triangles: America’s Dirtiest Secret
    Iron Triangles: America’s Dirtiest Secret

    In the American forum, politicians function as figureheads, and this represents a rather nefarious political game. When we study our government’s behavior in minute detail, we see clearly that under-the-table dealings and gentlemen’s agreements contribute to Read more →

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