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Story of the week: How to defeat willpower

By Steve | Published: January 28, 2010
WNYC’s Radiolab created the most intriguing audio science story I’ve ever heard. Aired this week on NPR’s Morning Edition, two narrators play off each other to lure you through the back story that sets up the report on an astonishing experiment. A marketing professor had a set of subjects memorize a 2-digit number and another [...]
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Story of the week: Memorial service for a “baby killer”

By Steve | Published: June 14, 2009
Maybe sticks, stones and names can hurt you. Denver Post columnist Mike Littwin went to a memorial service for murdered abortion doctor George Tiller last week and came back wondering whether poison words lowered the barriers to violence. Might the value of Tiller’s life eroded in the eyes of anti-abortion activists who tagged him “Tiller the baby [...]
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Story of the week: ‘You, your patient, and their story’

By Steve | Published: May 24, 2009
“Let me tell you the story of the frantic father and his 2-year-old daughter who was gasping for breath in the middle of the night. The father feared the worst as he rushed with his daughter to The Children’s emergency room.” It was easy to see why Jonathan Browser was chosen by the 39 graduates [...]
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Story of the week: Optimistic college grads

By Steve | Published: May 17, 2009
The jobless numbers are bad, as the TV anchor team reminded us in their lead-in. But even so, students who got their sheepskin Saturday at University of Colorado Denver were upbeat. How could they not be? The heavy cloud cover broke up precisely at 9 a.m., just as Pomp and Circumstances began to play. In [...]
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Story of the week: Star Trek

By Steve | Published: May 9, 2009
There was an audible gasp — maybe it was just me — when Star Fleet Admiral Christopher Pike took the helm of the just-minted Enterprise. “Why do I recognize that name?” my wife whispered. How could I possiby answer that question in sotto voce? How to describe Admiral Pike’s release from a wheelchair, mute except [...]
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