Faculty in Focus No. 14: The costume technologist
By kbruner
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Ted Stark did not set out to be a costume-maker. While he likes to say that the profession actually chose him, it’s been a good fit for Stark.
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Getting better all the time: JILA strontium atomic clock sets new records
By caughey
In another advance at the far frontiers of timekeeping by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers, the latest modification of a record-setting strontium atomic clock has achieved precision and stability levels that now mean the clock would neither gain nor lose one second in some 15 billion years—roughly the age of the universe.
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Coffee for Your Garden & Your Skin
When I was a barista in Brooklyn, I remember a customer asking for the café’s unwanted coffee grounds for his home composting. We had tons of it—leftover from the espresso grinder and from making drip coffee—filling up our trashcans so we were happy to pass some on to him.
Recycling coffee grounds into your compost or fertilizer is a fantastic way to cut down on coffee waste. It’s also a great way to add valuable nutrients to your garden, since coffee is full of nitrogen and antioxidants.
photo courtesy of Pixabay
Another fun use for coffee, which I also learned while working at that shop in Brooklyn, is for skincare. A couple of my former co-workers would take expired whole beans, grind them up, and use them to make facial or body scrubs. Not only does a coffee scrub smell delicious, it also makes for a wonderful natural exfoliant.
Since I don’t have a garden but I am obsessed with DIY natural skincare products, I’ve definitely thought about making my own coffee scrub. Whatever you’re into, it’s good to know that we can reuse coffee grounds instead of just trashing them.
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Chancellor’s Corner: Reporting Bias Motivated Incidents, a call to action
By fraziere
This week when you walk around campus, you might see a series of posters asking you to report Bias Motivated Incidents (BMI’s). The posters, which are part of a CU-Boulder student-led campaign, use very graphic language to bring attention to the need to report acts of bias on our campus. I am joining the students in asking you to report these incidents by visiting http://ift.tt/1cY4e5X, so we can provide support services and administrative action as appropriate.
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Ten things to do this week: April 21 edition
By swensong
Ten things to do this week. This is a weekly column highlighting events on campus and in Boulder by Samuel Fuller, history major and resident event virtuoso.
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Boulder police searching for missing CU-Boulder student
By swensong
Boulder police are searching for 20-year-old Berry Tyler Allen, a University of Colorado Boulder student who was reported missing by his parents on April 18, 2015. The student goes by the name of Tyler.
He was last seen on April 11, 2015, and he last communicated with friends via text message on April 16, 2015.
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Faces of Boulder-Pic of the Day!
“I am in love with traveling and hiking and I want to make it a life goal to make sacrifices to spend money on traveling rather than lots of material goods.”
Meet Emily! She is a sophomore at CU Boulder, majoring in Anthropology and Journalism, while passionately minoring in Spanish.
“I am studying abroad in Argentina this summer to practice my Spanish language skills,” she says.
What made Emily want to attend CU Boulder?
“I grew up in Colorado and as much as I loved the idea of moving to a new state, I wanted to explore Colorado on my own terms. I also appreciated the academics of CU. I love the relaxed vibe of Boulder and I’m amazed how many people I meet that love adventure and the outdoors as much as I do. Not to mention Boulder is just insanely beautiful.”
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How to Breakup with Your Couch, or The Science of Motivation
What is it that makes it so challenging to peel oneself off the couch and workout? Who are these crazies who jump out of bed at 5 a.m. and run in the cold, crepuscular morning hours? Or who get in a power hike after work when the rest of us want nothing more than to go home and veg. What powers these people, and how do we bottle it?
It seems like it should be enough to merely want to exercise—to want to look better; to want a more toned body; to want to control high blood pressure or diabetes; to want to be healthier. But, as anyone who has chosen the couch over the treadmill can attest, wanting is not enough to actually DO. Are we then destined to have couch-patterned asses? Or is there some secret to motivation—some special trick to getting in that workout?
Let’s put on our science caps and take a look at motivation. There are two types: extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. Extrinsic motivation is the desire to achieve based on external rewards, such as looking better, winning an award, receiving money or attracting a partner. Intrinsic motivation comes from the inside—doing an activity because it makes …read more
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Faces of Boulder-Pic of the Day!
Meet Andie Doak! She is a (get ready) third-year molecular, cellular and developmental biology major and philosophy minor (phew!) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Doak was born and raised in Denver, Colorado.
“Boulder is close to the mountains yet still very much a city. That is hard to find,” Doak says.
Some stand-out classes she has taken at CU have been her music appreciation and bio-psych classes.
“My goal is pharmacy school. I want to do research with neurological diseases,” she says.
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CU-Boulder history chair wins Pulitzer Prize for her book
By caughey
The chair of the University of Colorado Boulder history department today won the Pulitzer Prize for history for her book Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People.
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