Starter bibliographies about science topics and connections. The bibliographies are updated annually.
Topics:
Alcohol: drinking–how much is too much?
Arabidopsis: model organism in Biology
Authoritarianism and corruption
Autoimmune diseases–prevention and control
Bacteriophages: basic science and applications
Brown adipose tissue/brown fat
Caenorhabditis elegans: a model organism in Biology
Cannabis: health benefits and risks
Cell development and determination
Childhood obesity and parents’ influence
Climate change and human behavior
Climate change and human migration
Corruption and power: the connection
Crowds: behavior, social change, movement, collective action, social media, context, identity
Diels-Alder reaction: a mainstay of organic chemistry
Dust storms: agriculture and climate change
Electric vehicles: benefits, technology, obstacles
E-mail and work: enhancing productivity or source of stress?
Extreme heat: impacts and consequences
Extreme weather and climate change: the connections and impacts
Facebook and Instagram: effects on well-being and mental health
Facial recognition: technology and privacy
False information: how and why does it spread online?
Fear — impacts on decision-making and behavior
Generalized Anxiety Disorder–a sign of the times?
Integrity and honesty: do they really matter?
Long COVID: what it is, impacts, and treatments
Mental illness and gun violence: is there a real connection?
Mental models: misinformation and truth
Microbiome/microbiota: influences on disease and behavior
Microplastics: impacts on the environment and human health
Nuclear power and climate change
Offshore drilling: environmental effects
Online extremism: the dangers and the psychology
Opioids, addiction, and overdose
Pandemics–history, control, and prevention
Postmenopausal bone health and nutrition
Racism, prejudice, and discrimination: the psychological origins
Sea level rise and climate change
Sleep: importance and impacts–physical and mental health
Solar-powered water harvesting and purification
Stress: the effects brought on by pandemic diseases
Viruses: can they be beneficial?
Water, drought, and climate change
Questions or comments; suggestions for a topic? Please let me know (engelk@grinnell.edu).
