Mental models: misinformation and truth
Background: “A mental model is a form of mental representation for mechanical–causal domains that affords explanations for these domains. Mental[…]
Read moreWildfire: Increasing frequency and intensity, risk, weather extremes, and climate change
Background: Wildfires are in the news literally every day. Fire seasons are starting earlier, burning hotter, and ending later. In[…]
Read moreNitrates and drinking water
Background: Nitrates in drinking water sources have become a chronic problem especially in areas of intensive corporate agriculture–like the U.S.[…]
Read moreSugar in foods and beverages: health effects throughout life
“Most people consume many different types of sugars from a variety of foods and beverages in their diet. A high[…]
Read morePFAS: “Forever chemicals” and human health
“PFAS stands for ‘per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances’, which are a large group of human-made chemicals … that are used widely[…]
Read moreExtinction and climate change
Background: Earth’s climate is changing rapidly. No, it is not a hoax, not a projection for the future, not a[…]
Read moreArtificial Intelligence and Education
Like the Internet in the 1990’s, the hype and hypocrisy surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and its real, forecast, and imagined[…]
Read moreExtreme heat: impacts and consequences
Background: Extreme heat is becoming a “new normal” for many areas of the world. Since the summer of 2023, for example,[…]
Read moreDust storms: corporate agriculture and climate change
Background: The Great Plains and Midwest regions of the Unted States are seeing more and larger dust storms and higher[…]
Read moreCaenorhabditis elegans: a model organism in Biology
Background: Caenorhabditis elegans is a small roundworm usually found in soil that often feeds on bacteria among rotting vegetation and[…]
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