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Water purification by solar power: an update

An update to the Solar-powered water harvesting and purification bibliography. The most current version of the bibliography can be seen here — https://sciencebibliographies.strategian.com/solar-powered-water-harvesting-and-purification/. Featured articles

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Coronaviruses

What are Coronaviruses? What does a Coronavirus infection mean for humans? Have we seen them before? Will we keep seeing them in the future? What

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Opioids, addiction, and overdose

Bibliography: Reviews/recent articles on opioids, addiction, and overdose. **Updated March 2021** Classic review: *Paulozzi, L.J. (2012). Prescription drug overdoses: A review. Journal of Safety Research, 43 (4),

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Gun ownership and violence

Quick bibliography: Reviews/articles on the connections between gun ownership and violence. **updated November 2022** Classic review: van Kesteren, J.N. (2014). Revisiting the Gun Ownership and Violence

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The environmental effects of offshore drilling

Quick bibliography: Reviews/recent articles on the environmental effects of offshore drilling. **for the most current version of this bibliography, see — https://sciencebibliographies.strategian.com/the-environmental-effects-of-offshore-drilling/ Classic review: *Menzie,

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Postmenopausal bone health and nutrition

Quick bibliography: 5 reviews/recent articles on postmenopausal bone health and nutrition. **for the most current version of this bibliography, see — https://sciencebibliographies.strategian.com/postmenopausal-bone-health-and-nutrition/ Classic review: Ilich,

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It’s raining plastic

News: It’s literally raining plastic–that is, “multicolored microscopic plastic fibers.” Previous research has found microplastics in mountains in Europe, at the bottom of the ocean,

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We need action

Land and water degradation, food and water supply shortages, drug-resistant infections from overuse of antibiotics, overuse of pesticides and disease, sea level rise affecting coastal

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Politics and Fear

Whipping up fear is a common tactic in politics. Providing stark, seemingly life or death choices, us versus them, scapegoating, creating a false bogeyman to

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Termites may do good

Are termites always bad? Maybe not … In a study conducted in Borneo during the extreme drought of 2015-2016, researchers compared “widely scattered” plots of

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How do we get along?

Unless someone is completely self-absorbed and amoral, most people care for somebody, some group, or at least something besides themselves. Research has shown that “people

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Water and the West

Lack of fresh water for agricultural use and for human consumption is a growing and very serious problem globally–including rich countries.  Read this article (Henry

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