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4Apr

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HEALTH & WELLNESS, TOP FOUR

Turns Out If You Have Plants In Your Home You Will Have A Healthy Home

More and more people are discovering the benefits of having house plants. We all know that plants absorb carbon dioxide and turn it into oxygen; but that's not all - they also effectively reduce the amount of airborne chemicals in a given space, that's why it's ideal to have at least one house plant! If you're wondering what plant you should go for, consider any of these top 5 indoor plants for a healthy home: Spider Plant One of the most popular and most favored house plant is the spider plant. It looks pretty with long green leaves that look like green fireworks. But aesthetics aside, they're good for cleaning the air of an area and scrubbing it of toxic chemicals found in common household goods like nail polish, paint and rubber. Not only that, the spider plant is also ideal for beg...

Why Generations Of American Women Connected With Betty Crocker As She Turns 100

10Nov

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CULTURE, VIDEO REELS

Why Generations Of American Women Connected With Betty Crocker As She Turns 100

Elizabeth A. Blake, Clark University Though she celebrates her 100th birthday this year, Betty Crocker was never born. Nor does she ever really age. When her face did change over the past century, it was because it had been reinterpreted by artists and shaped by algorithms. Betty’s most recent official portrait – painted in 1996 to celebrate her 75th birthday – was inspired by a composite photograph, itself based on photographs of 75 real women reflecting the spirit of Betty Crocker and the changing demographics of America. In it, she doesn’t look a day over 40. More importantly, this painting captures something that has always been true about Betty Crocker: She represents a cultural ideal rather than an actual woman. Nevertheless, women often wrote to Betty Crocker and saved the lett...

Social Media Turns Online Arguments Between Teens Into Real-World Violence

5Apr

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SOCIAL MEDIA

Social Media Turns Online Arguments Between Teens Into Real-World Violence

The deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in January exposed the power of social media to influence real-world behavior and incite violence. But many adolescents, who spend more time on social media than all other age groups, have known this for years. “On social media, when you argue, something so small can turn into something so big so fast,” said Justin, a 17-year-old living in Hartford, Connecticut, during one of my research focus groups. (The participants’ names have been changed in this article to protect their identities.) For the last three years, I have studied how and why social media triggers and accelerates offline violence. In my research, conducted in partnership with Hartford-based peace initiative COMPASS Youth Collaborative, we interviewed dozens of young people aged 1...

Clever chemistry turns ordinary bricks into electricity storage devices

12Aug

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SCIENCE

Clever chemistry turns ordinary bricks into electricity storage devices

The big idea In my synthetic chemistry lab, we have worked out how to convert the red pigment in common bricks into a plastic that conducts electricity, and this process enabled us to turn bricks into electricity storage devices. These brick supercapacitors could be connected to solar panels to store rechargeable energy. Supercapacitors store electric charge, in contrast to batteries, which store chemical energy. Brick’s porous structure is ideal for storing energy because pores give brick more surface area than solid materials have, and the greater the surface area the more electricity a supercapacitor material can hold. Bricks are red because the clay they’re made from contains iron oxide, better known as rust, which is also important in our process. We fill the pores in bricks with an...

Craigslist turns 25 – a reminder that a more democratic version of the internet can still thrive

3Apr

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TECHNOLOGY

Craigslist turns 25 – a reminder that a more democratic version of the internet can still thrive

Fake news. Online surveillance. Phishing scams. Biased algorithms. It’s easy to be cynical about the internet, and harder to remember a time when being online felt less commercial and more democratic. But there was a period when websites didn’t rely on user data for profit margins, when people still viewed the internet as a radical laboratory for freedom and liberty. Can those ideas and values from the earliest days of the web be revived? Or is the internet a lost cause? In my new book, “An Internet for the People,” I look at one popular website that has a lot to teach us: Craigslist. Twenty-five years after its launch, Craigslist is a reminder that the earlier, more democratic version of the internet can still thrive. The platform has weathered the internet’s boom-and-bust cycle, wi...