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Gas plants and health risks; extreme heat and health threats [news you may have missed–volume 1]

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Important news that you may have missed (from CuratedSci): The start of a series; science news you may have missed from the last 60 to 90 days. New Analysis Details the Public Health Impacts of Proposed Gas Plants in Wisconsin (Healthy Climate Wisconsin) (Report PDF) Observational and model evidence together support wide-spread exposure to noncompensable heat under continued global warming (Science Advances) (PDF of article)…

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Full text access through Strategian

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Records from the Science Primary Literature database provide (where available) free full text access to journal and magazine articles (example). These links are also available through the Strategian: Science Magazine and Science Bibliographies Online. Strategian provides secure and stable access to the full text (links at other sites may come and go). Questions? Please let me know (engelk@grinnell.edu).

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CuratedSci: science news from the best sources

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CuratedSci is your one-stop resource for science-related news from the best science news sources.  Leveraging the expertise of well-known and respected organizations, CuratedSci provides a chosen and convenient list of news stories–updated hourly with a three-week archive. CuratedSci was created by Griffin Engel and is part of the Strategian Universe of science resources. Make CuratedSci your source for science news! URL: https://sciencenews.strategian.com/ RSS feed: https://sciencenews.strategian.com/public_html/feed/ Questions or comments? Please…

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Extreme weather and a changing climate

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Our climate is changing, and rapidly. The evidence is all around us. One result of our changing climate is the increased frequency of weather and weather-related extremes across the Earth–stifling and dangerous heatwaves, prolonged and profound drought, torrential rain leading to deadly and destructive flooding, inexorable sea level rise, explosive wildfires and then smoke affecting skies, air quality, and health thousands of miles away, lives…

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Search the Science Primary Literature Database

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Students, Educators: use the Science Primary Literature Database … Available at no cost; curated and updated; search for articles, books, and images that actual college and university students have found useful for papers, projects, labs, and experiments, plus links to full text and links to citing publications. Database help See also — Science Sources/Bibliographies (starter bibliographies on a range of science topics) Subject Guides (Agriculture,…

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Why should you critically evaluate information? Because of situations like this …

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A key part of information evaluation is to understand the context in which the information was created. What is the motivation? Why was the information presented in that particular way? It could be use of certain words, specific images, formatting, color, etc.? Putting or displaying the information in a particular place? Why is it being done that way? What emotion do they want you to…

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Revisiting: Politics and Fear

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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 distract from real problems, using lies and disinformation … fear is used because it often works. The invoked fear is often based on racism and bias. It’s those “other people”–with a different skin color, from another place, who follow a…

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There is a much greater flood risk in the United States

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Across much of the United States, the flood risk is greater (in some cases, far greater) than what government estimates and maps currently show. As a result, millions of homes and properties and many millions of people are facing a threat they have not thought they faced and may not have known about when they purchased or rented a property–a flooding threat that will only…

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Revisiting: Scapegoats and self-blame

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Scapegoating is “the act of blaming and often punishing a person or a group for a negative outcome that is due, in large part, to other causes.” Scapegoating is alive and well in the United States and many other countries. It’s not a new phenomenon.  Scapegoating has been going on for centuries–think of the witch hysteria and trials in Europe and America that lasted into…

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