Wash Park Prophet

Four Khoisan genomes and one ethnic Bantu genome from Southern Africa have been completely sequenced (original paper here and earlier mtDN...

Curiosity has an undeservedly bad reputation. A West Denver cat escaped death when the cat's home exploded today , because the cat left ...

The map showing the least happy 20% of Congressional districts heavily overlaps those in the bottom 20% of 2005-2006 income growth and sta...

Many people who could file for bankruptcy don't. What drives those that do? In a nutshell : Most consumers who file chapter 7 are drive...

"Enlisted women are three times more likely to be divorced, and thus more likely to be a single parent [than enlisted men]." From ...

The right to a lawyer at public expense in a criminal case is a means tested right. Should it be? A "Universal Public Defender" ...

The design of the soon to open new Denver Justice Center , with a court house and jail, received an overall positive architectural assessmen...

A forty year old man with no prior criminal record who pleaded guilty in federal court in Iowa when charged with possesion of child pornogra...

Econbrowser neatly summarizes shifts in the investments made by the Federal Reserve during and after the financial crisis. The Fed before, ...

A comment at Square State in early January claimed "[t]he problem with US politics is that there are three major constituencies (chris...

Colorado's March 16 precinct caucus details are now available for Democrats and Republicans in Denver. In ordinary years (i.e. years o...

Payday lenders in Colorado are heavily concentrated in Latino and African-American communities . This is hardly surprising, but the strengt...

Sometime around 160,000 years ago, modern humans evolved. The most recent ice age lasted from about 110,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago (t...

Pre-Columbian maps from China secured by Marco Polo and brought to Venice indicate that the Chinese had sailed on the West Coast of North A...

One of the most genetically interesting places in Europe is Cres Island, off the coast of Croatia. They are profoundly different genetically...

“Give me a place to stand and a lever long enough and I will move the world.” - Archimedes (280 B.C.E-211 B.C.E.)

Economist Robert J. Samuelson's op-ed in the February 5, 2010 issue of Newsweek offers up some simply facts about the projected federal...

While mostly invisible, I completed another major round of reviewing tags on posts, eliminating early irregular tags in favor of my current ...

Assurant Health, a.k.a. Time Insurance, is one of the leading providers of health insurance to people who don't receive health insurance...

Rates on risk free investments, like Treasury bonds, remain dismally low. Offerings of investment grade bonds (unsecured first priority deb...