‘Opinions’ Archives
What color is your dinosaur?
Once, all dinosaurs were drab it seemed, but now, new research points to the color of dinosaurs. It is all about the bird-dinosaur connection. Last month an article in the journal “Science” about newly-discovered fossils that offer strong proof of the birds-are-dinosaurs theory. The [...]
Pot this is not
Pop quiz: what synthetic substance has been floating around St. Louis, is gaining popularity, and can reportedly be three times more powerful than marijuana? If you said “K2,” then pat yourself on the back. Not only can K2 be more potent than pot, it is also legal—for now, at least. K2 [...]
Mizzou’s circus act
As Benton Stadler continues to crumble before our eyes, this past week the president of the Missouri Students Association, Tim Noce, suggested that the University of Missouri campus in Columbia should buy a live tiger as a mascot. The tiger would cost approximately $2 million. To put it [...]
What is it about politics that attracts scumbags?
Politics is a dirty business and it seems to attract a breed of human that I would describe as being scum. This past week, several of my favorite scumbags were back in the headlines, while yet another joined their ranks and managed to drag everything down to a new low. I will start out by [...]
Campus science deserves spotlight
This is a plea for some love for the University of Missouri-St. Louis science programs. Every semester, in addition to the seminars for students majoring in the various science departments, the UM-St. Louis science institutes and departments present an array of free, accessible, general-interest [...]