Author: Pius Kamau
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A retrospective during Women’s History Month | Pius Kamau
This week World Denver will celebrate Women’s History month with a conference and festivities as it has done in the past. Laura Chinchilla, the first woman president of Costa Rica, is the keynote speaker. March was designated National Women’s History month in the United States in 1987 by the US Congress in recognition of women’s…
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Shedding tears over NREL’s demise | Pius Kamau
Donald Trump’s attempts to unwind progress in environmental matters hasn’t met much resistance from scientific-minded Republicans. The former National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL, is now NLR – National Laboratory of the Rockies. Trump excised the RE bit claiming that climate change and its scientifically proved renewables solution is a Chinese hoax. Many conservatives know he is…
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A tribute to Denver Health’s good work | Pius Kamau
The latest Colorado health-care facilities ’construction news is that University of Colorado Health (UCH) and Advent Health, two nonprofit hospital systems plan to build hospitals adjacent to one another in Broomfield, an area with more hospital beds than in most of America. We absolutely don’t need more hospitals in this area and I wish the…
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Our leaders are a reflection of us | Pius Kamau
The ceaseless incoherent noise of American politics is filtered and diminished by Colorado’s altitude; it is also diluted by the winds blowing down from the Rockies. That has been my opinion, as I have watched what America has lived through this last decade from my mile high perch. Already in 2026’s first three weeks the…
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A packet of New Year’s resolutions
Our new year only reflects the Gregorian calendar’s January to December count. There are many others — Julian, Islamic, Hebrew, and another 10 to my counting — most of us don’t know. Whichever calendar we use, we make New Year’s resolutions and strive to fulfill them. But as the new year’s days progress I have…
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COLUMN: Now is not the time to stop giving | Pius Kamau
I recall the 1983 to 1985 Ethiopian famine that affected 8 million people and killed between half a million to a million people. It was such a dramatic and tragic loss of life, it propelled Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to organize a very successful benefits concert, Live Aid. The two-venue benefit concert and music based…
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Defeated council members miscast Aurora | Pius Kamau
Like my neighbors, I’m proud of the city where I have lived for some three decades. It is enough time to see some two lane streets morph into five lane traffic arteries. I worked in the then-two small community hospitals before one swallowed up the other and got big; when slumbering Fitzsimons Army Medical Center awakened…
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I give thanks that we live in a democracy | Pius Kamau
“Forever, the optimist,” a friend commented on reading my latest column — “It’s an amazing time to be alive.” This optimist’s column emphasized how fortunate we are not to have pain as our ever present Sword of Damocles. I am thankful medicine and science can manage most of our pain, compared to past centuries, when…
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COLUMN: It’s a good time to be alive
Much of our language of complaints in the 21st century emanates from our being ill informed. Nonetheless I think there has never been a better time to be alive than today. Despite our inequities, noise and rancor, our life is still the best it’s ever been. Statistics prove it. I personally see man’s existence, history and…
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COLUMN: The science of drinking is evolving | Pius Kamau
Science, it seems, tarnishes national practices, pastimes, diets, and often seems unmindful of histories. The latest scientific target is alcohol: its ingestion causes cancer. For a large swath of humanity alcohol, or ethanol plays central roles in religious devotion and tribal ceremonial libations — parts of tradition and societal well-being. As a scientist I know where…