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ChatGPT

The Fairness Party

January 4, 2023 Christopher Burke Education, Science One comment

With the recent open distribution of ChatGPT, a new chatbot from OpenAI, all kinds of predictions as to the imminent death of the world as we know it have come forward and run rampant. This is the end of the college essay; The College Essay is Dead, the Atlantic.

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Rohingya Refugee Camp

Finding New Settlement Areas for Refugees

November 5, 2021 Arthur Lieber Activism, Climate Change, Refugees, Science Leave a comment

It is interesting how in the United States and most other industrialized countries, increasing emphasis is placed on rebuilding and expanding its built infrastructure. An important question is largely going unasked. Where do these ribbons of concrete take us; do their paths take into consideration how our land is changing due to climate change.

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Oneil Colonies

Our Newest Challenge in Space: Privatizing the Delivery and Return of Human Beings

January 2, 2020 Claire Shackleford Environment, Infrastructure, Science, Technology Leave a comment

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, which was the first time man walked on the moon. December 11th, 1972 was the last time that man set foot on the moon. This means that it has been over 45 years since man last walked on the moon.

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montreal

The Montreal Protocol: Saving Earth’s vital ozone layer

January 29, 2019 Renee Shur Climate Change, Environment, Science, Technology Leave a comment

In 1985, three British scientists working at the British Antarctic Survey stunned the world when they discovered that at certain times of the year

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Lima beans, the scientific method, and saving the planet

December 28, 2018 Renee Shur Environment, Science, Survey, Widgets: Science/Technology Leave a comment

Do you remember your first brush with the scientific method? For most of us, the six steps at the core of the scientific method

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E. Coli

Trump delays farm-water testing. Americans get E. Coli

November 27, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Consumer issues, Food, Good government, Health, Science, Trump, Widgets: Science/Technology Leave a comment

Donald Trump is making us sick—and I mean that literally. Some food experts are claiming that the recent outbreak of E.Coli contamination in Romaine

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bacteria

What I learned about killer bacteria from my doctor’s socks

October 14, 2018 Renee Shur Health, Health care, Science Leave a comment

The first thing I noticed when the doctor sat down in the examining room were the socks. Tucked into a pair of worn, brown-leather

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Banned

Seven words now banned at the Centers for Disease Control

December 16, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Language/Words, Science, Widgets: Science/Technology Leave a comment

If you work at the Centers for Disease Control—the nation’s top public health agency—you are now officially banned from using the following seven words:

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Stop Mueller

The right is right: Mueller is stacking deck against Trump

December 12, 2017 Arthur Lieber Campaigns, Democracy, Impeachment, Justice, Mental Health, Republican Brain, Science, Trump 6 comments

In unison, the talking heads at Fox News and Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee assaulted both current FBI Director Christopher Wray and former

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stink bug

Invasion of the stink bug: Icky and economically dangerous

October 9, 2017 Renee Shur Consumer issues, Environment, Health, Science Leave a comment

And now, a word about the brown marmorated stink bug. If you haven’t heard of it, count yourself lucky. This autumn the stink bug,

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