Alexia Parks

As an expert on the new science of a woman's brain and its hardwired leadership traits, I have been following the rise of France's new president, Francois Hollande with great interest. A consensus-builder, Hollande's circle of advisers now includes both his companion, Paris Match reporter, and new French first lady,...

Just before graduation, as Saba Gul was finishing up her master's degree in computer science at MIT, she went to hear a woman talking about schools in Pakistan. The one story that really moved her was about a young girl who was not allowed to go to school because she...

Boulder, tagged as the brainiest, healthiest, and smartest city in America has also been called one of the "worst dressed" cities by GQ magazine. Could the GQ tag, "worst dressed," have something to do with the fact that Boulder residents take their active lifestyle seriously and that it...

In the world of today's entrepreneurs, the term IQ doesn't refer to how intelligent one is. Instead, it refers to the Innovation Quotient of companies with innovative new products or services. Over the past 11 years in Boulder, winners of the IQ Awards have included DigitalGlobe and...

I woke up this morning thinking about WINGStand. Could a single $20 thumb-sized product forever change the way we use computers?

Fifty years ago, IBM thought it could only sell 25 mainframe computers. These early computers filled up an entire room, and took untold amounts of materials, manufacturing and...

The lynx had traveled three times down the Rocky Mountain States from Canada to Colorado to mate, before it was shot, on a return trip home to Alberta. "I've never shot a lynx with a collar before," said the trapper who handed its tracking collar over to authorities. To Canadian...

When he was 8 years old, Xiuhtezcatl, a young Aztec boy, took to the stage and made a passionate plea for the environment. Now 10-years-old and strikingly powerful in his presence, he is one of thousands of youth who are linking up around the world, via IMatter and...

While the world news media has shifted its attention elsewhere, tragedy continues to unfold at Tokyo Electric Power's crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear reactor. The Japan Times reports that several workers have received overexposure to radiation. They also report that the U.S.-based Physicians for Social Responsibility...

Is it a Rocky Mountain high, or could it be a runner's high, that makes people living in the the City of Boulder the happiest people in America? Boulder has been tagged by Forbes Magazine as the smartest city in the U.S., and by a 2010...

Could a program that was developed to help lift African women out of extreme poverty also help lift America's long-term unemployed back into the workforce?

Seven years ago, Torkin Wakefield, a psychologist from Colorado, who was in Uganda with her husband, an AIDS doctor, was walking through a slum area...

Learning should be fun. In fact, it should be fun to learn. However, stress related to schoolwork or homework is not even included in the Top 10 of the Homes-Rahe Life Stress Inventory.

Could it be that the psychiatrists who developed this definitive stress inventory forgot to...

Daddy, what did you do during the First World Infowar? As the question of whether WikiLeaks' Julian Assange is a hero or villain moves from front page headlines to talk shows and the blogosphere, another big story is emerging.

Unlike the quickly suppressed Twitter linked student revolt in Iran in...

When he was 21, a friend of mine walked across the country. He used this 3,000 mile journey to raise money for Foster Parents. For his efforts, he received media attention every step of the way. At 25, he picked another charity and started off on his second Walk Across...

What makes us happy? Shopping until we drop? Or dropping out of the feeding frenzy taking place at "Big Box" stores, and focusing on the basics? These basics might include family, friends, and community, good conversations, healthy foods that nourish the body, a sense of purpose... a good night's sleep.

Will victory in the 2010 elections go to political candidates who tweet? Or could a politician's credibility be crippled by open access to the inner workings of their mind?

Take Sarah Palin's favorite politician, Alaska's Joe Miller, for example. According to lawyer and blogger Craig Mitchell, Joe was...

Over the past 60 years the U.S. has been involved in more than 10 wars and invasions. These have included World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, the Bush Wars (in Iraq), and Obama's war in Afghanistan. By ignoring the Powell Doctrine* in both Iraq and Afghanistan we have engaged...

When asked the following question, most people guess the wrong answer. Question: What is worse: the collapse of the banking system or the collapse of phytoplankton?

Actually, most people don't know that this tiny plant life called phytoplankton is so small -- as small as bacteria -- that more than...

One day after the New York Times reported that the U.S. military was going "green" with a goal of 50% from solar and renewables by 2020, and the Obama Administration announced that it was putting solar panels on the White House, I took a look at the next generation of...

Ted Turner returned to Colorado the other day to deliver the keynote address at a luncheon for Colorado Conservation Voters in Denver. His public conversations with T. Boone Pickens, a month earlier at the Aspen AREDay festival had created a buzz in the environmental community and it seemed like all...

Last Saturday, the town of Longmont held its annual summer parade. Like most parades across America, firefighters waved to the crowds from their firetrucks. What made Boulder's Firefighters Parade different was that it happened on Sunday, at BoulderGreenStreets.

When volunteer firefighters arrived with firetrucks from Fourmile, Sunshine,...