State of Women in Vet Med
Veterinary medicine has been mostly female since 2009 but research suggests inherent bias, unequal resources, and the “motherhood penalty” contribute to women still trailing men in income and status.
Can Biodynamic Farming Redeem Sugar?
Most Americans don’t have time for a man like Leontino Balbo, Jr. He wants to tell you everything.
While driving through his sugarcane fields in the northeastern region of Brazil’s Sao Paolo state, he identifies each swath of plantings by name.
"I know this cane like my sons," he says. "We have 40 varieties. This is 1842. This is 5453 … ."
A Real-Life Game of ‘Operation’
Rob Keegan, DVM, DACVAA, taught at Washington State University for 32 years and spent 15 years as the anesthesia section head at WSU’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital, but it was his love of computers that distinguished his classes from others.
Day in the Life of a Cardiologist
While a team of young doctors and nurses swarm around him watching a live x-ray of his chest cavity, a man lays on a table in the cardiology department of Boulder Community Hospital.
A camera the size of a pinpoint traverses the man’s inner highways, enabling all present to map the topography of his internal landscape. With every heartbeat a black shockwave spreads out in all directions across the screen, revealing an intricate lattice of veins and arteries. At one place in the web, the flow is obviously constricted.
Dr. Jamie Doucet stands quietly over the patient’s still body as if engaged in a silent chess game as nurses bob and weave through the room. Most of the equipment is covered in clear plastic. Funk music plays over the loud speakers.
That’s Freakin’ Tyler Florence
The camera loves Tyler Florence. He’s been called boyish. A powerhouse. The sexiest man to ever pick up a chef’s knife (a now famous Katie Couric quote). He’s penned three cookbooks, circled the globe umpteen times, and logged more television hours than just about any of his peers.
He’s the male Rachael Ray. Approachable, down to earth, sweet. And the male Giada DeLaurentiis. Flirtatious, a little naughty. No matter how skeptical you are of his charm, you get the feeling that if he were standing in front of you, he’d have you wrapped around his little finger. And you’d be right.
Find the Invisible Pets
The Crow Nation is at the intersection of Big Horn, Yellowstone, and Treasure counties in southern Montana, right up against the Wyoming border. About two-thirds of the 11,000 total members of the Crow people live on the reservation, along with their pets. And they don’t have nearly enough veterinary care.
A few weeks ago, this became the latest stop for the ElleVan, a 32-foot RV carrying food, medicine, and other supplies along with a volunteer team for the ElleVet Project.
Hanson Ling
Hanson Ling is a reluctant celebrity, a Chinese-Texan, a postal worker by day, artist by night, who currently is working on illustrating the entire bible in pencil.
“If I don’t achieve something, I get really, really bored,” Ling says.
Jeronna Bolden
In 2010, 30-year-old Jeronna Bolden thought she had done everything right. She had a bachelor’s degree and had worked her way up from customer service rep to financial aid director in her hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
Although she was a single mother to her then 6-year-old son, Jaevion, Bolden says she wasn’t struggling.
“It’s somewhat ironic and sad,” says Bolden, “But at that point, I never thought about money.”
Ready for a change, Bolden accepted a new job at a nonprofit in Indianapolis. She put most of her possessions in storage, loaded up her Lincoln Aviator, and headed off with Jaevion to start their new life. But within two days of their arrival, Bolden found out that the funding for her new job had fallen through.
Cathy Comstock
When University of Colorado associate teaching professor Cathy Comstock, PhD, first taught a class that required her students to volunteer at a homeless shelter, she encountered skepticism and a fair amount of animosity.
One student in particular seemed to have signed up for the course with the intention of resisting the “bleeding-heart” liberal ideals of the class and its instructor. At the end of the semester, when Comstock discovered the student hadn’t completed any of the required service hours, she cut him a deal — attend the last three sessions at the shelter and he would receive a passing grade.
Juan Logan
Juan Logan recalls walking home one night in Baltimore past rows and rows of brownstone houses. Ahead of him walked a white man. When the other man turned around and saw Logan behind him, he began to run.
“I don’t want anything you have!” Logan shouted.
As Logan opened the front door to his home, the other man stopped running.
Malcolm Goldstein
The last and only time avant-garde violinist Malcolm Goldstein visited Boulder was in the 1960s, when he shared the marquee with none other than Sammy Davis, Jr. This time, Goldstein is coming to town to finally act on twenty years’ worth of talk about collaborating with a good friend, artist Junko Chodos.
Dot’s Diner
Much like San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, Boulder is fondly remembered for a time when it was — for lack of a better word — real. Those who lived here in the seventies reminisce about a time when the Pearl Street pedestrian mall was still a novel idea. They remember seeing Van Morrison play at the Blue Note and getting beers at J.J. McCabe’s.
Boulder used to feel like a small town. It had a roller rink, two bowling alleys and a drive-in. It had restaurants like the L.A. Diner, Mother’s Cafe, Joe’s Spoon and a funky little place next to the Sinclair gas station on 8th and Pearl called Dot’s Diner.
