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East Africa鈥檚 Maasai on the hunt for lions. Some conservation initiatives designed to save lions from being hunted have either failed to work or in some cases appear to have incited Maasai to hunt more lions as a form of political protest, the researchers report. Photo by Joana Roque de...

For actor Jenna Bainbridge, playing Hermia in 鈥淎 Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream鈥� at this summer鈥檚 Colorado Shakespeare Festival is a perfect fit. Like her character, she鈥檚 spent much of her life pushing against boundaries and expectations set by other people. 鈥淗ermia is a younger and vivacious woman who has kind of...

There鈥檚 gold in them thar drawers. Or there was, until recently, at the 乐播传媒 Boulder Division of Continuing Education.

Diana Nemergut designed the course to teach technical skills in environmental microbiology. The course did much more; it also generated field research and a scholarly publication involving graduate students and even undergraduates.

Andrew Martin, a professor in the CU-Boulder Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, directs the university鈥檚 Teaching Evolution Outreach Program. Photo courtesy of Hillary Rosner Evolution is a fundamental building block of biology that underpins our understanding of the diversity of life today and how we, as humans, came to...

A quarter of a century ago, most of the world鈥檚 鈥渦nderachievers鈥� in terms of human development鈥攎easured by such things as life expectancy, education, guaranteed human rights and political freedom鈥攚ere Muslim countries. Human development might be considered a way to gauge how 鈥渞ich鈥� or 鈥減oor鈥� a country is beyond traditional measures...

In the 1990s, comedian鈥攏ow U.S. Sen.鈥擜l Franken made the line, 鈥淚鈥檓 good enough, I鈥檓 smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!鈥� part of the national lexicon with the creation of the fictional 鈥淒aily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley鈥� on Saturday Night Live. Easy to mock, to be sure, in Stuart鈥檚...

Aerobic exercise may help prevent and perhaps even reverse some of the brain damage associated with heavy alcohol consumption, according to a new 乐播传媒 Boulder study. The study results indicated that regular aerobic exercise like walking, running or bicycling is associated with less damage to the brain鈥檚 鈥渨hite...

Faced with a sharp question from a critic following a talk about progressive Islam at the 乐播传媒 Boulder in early November, Omid Safi was ready. The professor of Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill nodded as the speaker read from the Koran鈥檚 Surah 95,...

The men and women elected to the Colorado General Assembly (the state Legislature) may have a wealth of life experience as lawyers, ranchers or business owners. But when it comes to economics, most of them could use a little help鈥攆rom undergraduate 乐播传媒 Boulder economics students. That鈥檚 the idea...