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Exponential Growth and a Grain of Rice

March 2nd, 2012 | Posted by plato's cat in News - (Comments Off)

Once upon a time, I was in college messing around in microbiology  labs, where we boiled up smelly gelatinous broths and poured them into shallow glass petri dishes.  Then we inoculated the nutritious media with various bacterial strains – just one or two bacteria per dish was all we needed.  Don’t ask where we obtained …
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SUCK IT UP, COLORADANS!

February 22nd, 2012 | Posted by plato's cat in News - (Comments Off)

The Colorado House Local Government Committee Hearing HB12-1277 A handful of Occupy Littleton folk attended the hearing of HB-1277, A Bill for an Act Strengthening Local Governments’ Regulation of Oil and Gas Operations, and, in Connection therewith, Strengthening Local Governments’ Zoning and Land Use Authority Over Oil and Gas Operations,  on Monday afternoon. Bill’s sponsors …
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Activists Disrupt Denver County Foreclosure Auction

February 17th, 2012 | Posted by plato's cat in News - (2 Comments)

At about 9:30 on Thursday morning, February 16th, a dozen anonymous people drifted into the weekly foreclosure auction held in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office located on the first floor of the Wellington Webb Municipal Building in downtown Denver. We were from the Colorado Progressive Coalition and Occupy Denver, but we were dressed to blend …
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POISON APPLE?

February 16th, 2012 | Posted by plato's cat in News - (Comments Off)

  Why should we even be concerned about where and under what conditions our Apple iPads and iPhones and MacBooks are produced?  Contrary to popular belief, Apple is not a big creator  of jobs within the USA.  While Apple has created a couple of thousand  well-paying  software development jobs that are located in this country, …
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