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What you don鈥檛 know won鈥檛 hurt you, goes the old canard, but what you believe can make a difference when it comes to pain relief, and not just in a subjective way. When you expect that a drug or placebo will relieve pain, and it does, it鈥檚 not simply a matter of fooling your brain.

During a general election year, the political divide in America is frequently on display in living color in the form of those ubiquitous 鈥淩ed vs. Blue state鈥� maps. No surprise, then, that many Americans believe that political polarization is on the rise.

It鈥檚 hard not to notice the widespread patches of dead trees along the I-70 corridor. For many, there is a next logical thought: All those dead trees are going to provide fuel for a wildfire. But that conventional wisdom might be wrong.

Ten years ago, Leslie Irvine was on her high horse when it came to homeless people keeping companion animals. But Irvine began to think differently while working at an animal shelter.

It seems, at first blush, to be something of a no-brainer: strengthening protections on American intellectual property rights (or IPRs) 鈥� on everything from drugs to music to technology 鈥� would be a boon to the national economy. After all, we hardly want unscrupulous governments and businesses in Brazil, China,...

In certain political and religious circles, the notion of moral relativism 鈥� that there is no objective 鈥渞ight鈥� or wrong, only individual opinions 鈥� is not just anathema, not merely abhorrent. It is the very root of decadence and the collapse of civilization. 鈥淲hat鈥檚 right for you may not be...

The automobile is a remarkable achievement of mechanics. But in the end, it鈥檚 got nothing on the human leg. Rodger Kram, associate professor of integrative physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder 鈥淚t鈥檚 amazing that in a car you have to have special components, an electric motor in a Prius...

On May 28, a small crew will pack up the country of Illyria 鈥� better known as Albania 鈥� load it onto trucks, and haul it north, from Arvada to Boulder. Not the actual nation, it鈥檚 true, however, the caravan will transport the elaborate sets created to portray the world of Shakespeare鈥檚 鈥淭welfth Night.鈥�

In the heat of the battle for the presidency, one candidate questioned the value of a higher education, suggesting that urging young people to go to college was the sign of a 鈥渟nob.鈥� But, it seems, more education translates directly into longer life.

When most people think of maps, they think National Geographic, Rand McNally or 鈥� more likely these days 鈥� Google. Maps show us where places and objects are and sometimes, what they look like. They can be two-dimensional or three-dimensional, and whether they represent the inside of a human brain,...