Chemistry affects the public’s health and safety numerous times a day. Every product you use, drink, eat, take, touch, and smell has a chemical component to it. Public health and safety testing companies like NSF International, play a vital role to keep the public safer. They test things like faucets, mechanical plumbing & piping, water …
From reliefweb: “A UNICEF-led nationwide assessment – the first covering the water and sanitation sector since fighting began – reveals that in areas affected by conflict water supplies are only available at one-third of pre-crisis levels. Many people in such areas have only 25 litres of water a day, compared with 75 litres two years …
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via Global News Network: Liberia Liberia today unveiled a five-year investment plan which outlines priorities for rebuilding the country’s water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector that had been ravaged by decades of civil conflict. Access to water and sanitation services in Liberia is still low and many facilities are no longer functioning as Liberia recovers …
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Conference call August 2, 2012 On the call: Bego, Nazneen, Lois (partial notes, I had to leave half-way through) Discussion began about distribution of SONO filters in the areas of Bangladesh that still need them. Filter disposal is a problem? Perhaps due to arsenic but as soon as the contaminated water is removed from the …
Here is some good news for salmon… Here is the live link: http://www.video-monitoring.com/construction/olympic/js.htm
Chemists Without Borders representatives were invited to Bangladesh University by the Board of Trustees to offer ideas for consideration as the University inaugurates a program of environmental science degrees and the Center for Environmental Research and Development. Ms. Rachel Pokrandt, Co-Director of K-12 Curriculum and Training, Beyond Benign (a green chemistry education enterprise) and I …
The Chronicle on Higher Education had an interesting article about textbook manufacturers developing content for mobile phones. McGraw-Hill to Provide English Instruction and Test Prep Through Cellphones in India The mobile-phone platform could help teach millions of rural cellphone users who lack access to education, a company official said.
Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo. Typography Animation project for class Poem by Taylor Mali (www.TaylorMali.com)
Image via Wikipedia The NRC issued a report on July 16, 2010, entitled, “Near-Term Emissions Choices Could Lock in Climate Changes for Centuries to Millenia: Report Estimates Impacts from Various Levels of Warming.” These data will inform policy decision-makers. Here are some of the main points, quoted directly: Increased Confidence About Future Impacts Although some …
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Rotavirus is a diarrheal disease that kills half a million children worldwide every year. Current vaccines do not reach all the children early enough. This new vaccine, which has taken decades of effort to develop, would allow administration at birth and ensure more babies be protected. This map from a CDC page, shows the estimated …
Good News! Clinical Trials of Rotavirus Vaccine Launched Read More »