Most College Science Professors Aren’t Trained to Teach
Dec 19, 2024 · R ight now, high school seniors across the United States are making big decisions about where to apply to college and what kind of learning experience they want. For many families, this is a stressful yet exciting time filled with campus visits, application essays, and different options for the future.
Court Tells EPA to Consider Fluoride Risk, to Dentists’ Dismay
Oct 7, 2024 · A federal judge last month handed a major victory to opponents of water fluoridation, capping a seven-year legal battle over whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has failed to protect the public from potential toxic effects of fluoride, which is added to the tap water of around 200 million Americans.. The decision is sure to invite further scrutiny of the contested science behind ...
The Great American Nuclear Weapons Upgrade - undark.org
Nov 4, 2024 · I n the plains of western South Dakota, about 25 miles northeast of Mount Rushmore, the Ellsworth Air Force Base is preparing to receive the first fleet of B-21 nuclear bombers, replacing Cold War-era planes. Two other bases, Dyess in Texas and Whiteman in Missouri, will soon follow. By the 2030s, a total of five bases throughout the United States will host nuke-carrying bombers for the first ...
Undark Magazine | Truth, Beauty, Science.
Jan 15, 2025 · If you would like to help support our journalism, please consider making a donation. All proceeds go directly to Undark’s editorial fund. Undark is a non-profit, editorially independent magazine covering the complicated and often fractious intersection of …
An Honest Discussion of Covid Vaccine Side Effects Is Overdue
Nov 5, 2024 · T hree and a half years ago I contracted Guillain-Barré syndrome after getting the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) viral vector vaccine for Covid-19. The neurological disorder has left me hobbled by numb hands and feet, staggering around imbalanced, and battling debilitating fatigue. It has also left me, and thousands of others, feeling ignored and unheard by the government and the public health ...
The Enigmatic Earthquake Hotspot in America’s Heartland
Jul 15, 2024 · T he first earthquake struck while the town was still asleep. Around 2:00 am on Dec. 16, 1811, New Madrid — a small frontier settlement of 400 people on land now located in Missouri — was jolted awake.
People Hate Daylight Saving. Science Tells Us Why. - Undark …
Mar 11, 2024 · In 2022, Gentry and an interdisciplinary team of colleagues added to that body of research, publishing a study in the journal Time & Society that showed the rate of fatal motor-vehicle accidents was highest for people living in the far west of a time zone, where the sun rises and sets at least an hour later than on the eastern side. Chronobiology research shows that longer evening light can ...
Can New Mexico’s Ancient Water System Survive Climate Change?
Oct 9, 2024 · S antiago Maestas has grown apples, peaches, and apricots on his New Mexico property for more than five decades. He still cherishes the network of ancient gravity-fed irrigation ditches that deliver the water that keeps his orchard thriving. Those irrigation ditches, scattered across the state and known as acequias (pronounced ah-SEH-kee-ahs), have endured for hundreds of years.
Baring Teeth: The Long Battle Over Fluoride Comes to a Head
Mar 6, 2024 · Back in 1991, after my only Son was born; I started studying about the reasoning behind mandatory water fluoridation and In 2006, I had the honor to meet with Paul Connett, PhD of the famed Fluoride Action Network, up in New York @ St Lawrence University at the 2nd Annual FAN Convention & got to also meet a lot of other people who where Toxicologists , Dr David Kennedy, DDS,Toxicologist among ...
Book Review: How Much Can Animals Really Communicate?
Oct 11, 2024 · O ver the last decades, researchers who study animal behavior have succeeded in largely blurring the line between Homo sapiens and other animals. Like their human counterparts, animals feel emotions, they solve problems, they communicate and form complicated relationships, investigators have found.