In other words, DDM can analyze the tourists coming to Pagosa Springs and tell us, at some level of detail, what TV programs these visitors are watching at home…
Category: Essays
ESSAY: Data… and the American Dream, Part Two
Back in 2010, the 20-member Water Supply Community Work Group (WSCWG) published a comprehensive study of our community’s water needs…
ESSAY: Data… and the American Dream, Part One
The birds were singing when I woke this morning, and that’s a fact. I can’t tell you how many birds or what species, but I definitely heard birds singing…
ESSAY: The Gift
What is an old house? Is it a capital investment meant to be sold, perhaps at a profit?
ESSAY: Corn, Corn Oil… and Scientific Reality, Part Two
Mr. Sternberg did his Ph.D. work along side Jennifer Doudna, the University of California researcher who developed the CRISPR/Cas9 system of gene editing…
ESSAY: Corn, Corn Oil… and Scientific Reality, Part One
A scientist was explaining that the DNA coding that uniquely defines each individual human — or each individual dog, or cat, or earthworm — is made up of only four different amino acids strung together in a certain sequence…
ESSAY: The Amazing Universe of ‘Big History’
Here in 2016, we have apparently lost the intellectual distinction, not only between ‘History’ and ‘Prehistory’ but also between fact and fiction…
ESSAY: What the EPA Really Said About Fracking
If you read the EPA draft Executive Summary, you may reach the same conclusion that I’ve come to. Fracking does not always poison drinking water supplies. Fracking does, in some cases, poison drinking water supplies…
ESSAY: Confessions of a PSHS Graduate
I can almost hear them thinking, ‘So young to have two children already…’