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Category: Widgets: Science/Technology

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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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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apps

Apps for refugees: merging technology and humanitarianism

April 22, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik International, Refugees, Technology, Widgets: Science/Technology Leave a comment

These days, there’s an app for just about everything—even for being a refugee. According to the United Nations High Command on Refugees [UNHCR], apps

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Deleting science from EPA’s Office of Science and Technology

March 13, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Climate Change, Government, Science, Widgets: Science/Technology One comment

The EPA’s Office of Science and Technology [OST] no longer includes the word science in its mission statement. That’s a big effing deal, says

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