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  • Painting of cavemen
    Those who eat like 鈥渃avemen鈥 or follow a 鈥淧aleo Diet鈥 will get 鈥淣eanderthin,鈥 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鈥檚 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 鈥榞athering storm鈥 in science and math education approaches 鈥楥ategory 5鈥 and imperils American competitiveness, CU students rush inRyan O鈥橞lock had been considering a career in K-12 teaching since high school, but when he signed up to become
  • Lake
    But is NASA鈥檚 finding truly a previously undiscovered form of 鈥榳eird life鈥 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. 鈥
  • Computer screen
    People have been interested in personality and language for a long time, but it鈥檚 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
    鈥楽urprising鈥 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 鈥榓cademic efficiency鈥
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