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  • Painting of cavemen
    Those who eat like “cavemen” or follow a “Paleo Diet” will get “Neanderthin,” some weight-loss books contend. But scientists are still figuring out what early hominins actually ate. And while the picture is not complete, it is more complex than previously thought.
  • Students raising hands
    With the help of a smartphone and Twitter, university collaborators show kids how Shakespeare instructs us on school bullyingThe University of Colorado is pursuing a more-civil society with this simple recipe: Take one Shakespearean play, one group
  • Tim Seastedt
    As startling claims about knapweed’s virulence are retracted, CU researchers show that weed-eating bugs can help control invasive species without herbicides.
  • Clouds over the ocean
    CU team finds first conclusive evidence of climate-relevant gases over the remote Pacific Ocean, but why those gases exist where they do is a mystery.
  • People sitting in a living room
    Conventional wisdom suggests that average citizens hate politics, balk at voting even in presidential-election years and are, incidentally, woefully ill-informed. A new study by a team of researchers that includes a CU professor refutes that notion.
  • Various students in the classroom
    As the ‘gathering storm’ in science and math education approaches ‘Category 5’ and imperils American competitiveness, CU students rush inRyan O’Block had been considering a career in K-12 teaching since high school, but when he signed up to become
  • Lake
    But is NASA’s finding truly a previously undiscovered form of ‘weird life’ on Earth? Many scientists, including some noted experts at CU, have doubtsThe New York Times, NASA and the prestigious journal Science announced startling news recently. “
  • Computer screen
    People have been interested in personality and language for a long time, but it’s really hard to get somebody to sit down and write 100,000 words. The nice thing about bloggers is they write a lot.
  • Genders on a teeter totter
    ‘Surprising’ finding: spending 15 minutes, twice a semester, writing about music, family or other things women value helps them perform better in introductory courses
  • Stack of textbooks
    With a mixture of art, science and inspiration, stellar CU teachers in classics, physics and philosophy embody the harmony of research and teaching, and their examples add context to the national discourse on ‘academic efficiency’
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