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Topic: Pandemic: Covid-19
CDC (Center for Disease control) - Summary
CDC - about
CDC - Transmission
WHO (World Health Organization)
NPR - Updates
Liability Waivers to return to college in the Fall
Reuters - Life upended for Americans
Cal States go Online in Fall 2020
Parent Survey about opening schools in Fall
Colleges Fall 2020 plans (June 25)
Protecting Students on College Campuses from COVID-19 (June 25)
Colleges close campuses - online only (list)
"Ghost Town" - Staying after closure of college
Disneyland, Universal Studios, Disney World closed
America shuts down - Washington Post
America shuts down - CNN
Economy cannot reopen without schools - CNN
The New Normal - MIT Technology Review
Volunteering for experimental vaccine - MIT Technology Review
Restaurant workers Essential but unappreciated
Coronavirus will change the world like Black Death and other pandemics
Topic - Human Induced Global Warming/Climate Change
LiveScience (current)
NASA (current)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (current)
Climate Action Network (CAN) (current)
Union of Concerned Scientists (current)
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
Climate Change & Wine Making in France (NPR 2019)
Natural Resources Defense Council
Hope for the Climate - The Guardian
TED Talk - Al Gore " Averting the Climate Crisis"
The controversy: ProCon.org ( current)
Humans are to blame: Science Daily, National Geographic, Washington Post 2014
Nature, not humans at fault: Prof at Univ Missouri; Fox News 2015
Topic - The Melting Permafrost
Dormant Diseases Waking Up - BBC
Arctic Ice Melting the size of India - The Independent
Thawing Permafrost - EPA
The Warming Artic - NASA
The Big Thaw - National Geographic
Alaska Permafrost Melting - New York Times
All About Frozen Ground - National Snow and Ice Data Center
TED Talk - Woolly Mammoth
Topic - De-Extinction
Resurrecting extinct animals - Smithsonian
Genetic engineering - National Geographic
Scientists - Wall Street Journal
With CRISPR - Science Mag
Bring back T-Rex? - ABC News
Dawn of De-Extinction - TED Talk
TED Talk theme - multiple videos
Topic - Human Brain Development
Live Science (current)
The Scientist (current)
Nature.Com (current)
"Cooking Up Bigger Brains" - Rachael Moeller Gorman *
"Evolving Bigger Brains Through Cooking: A Q&A with Richard Wrangham" - Rachael Moeller Gorman *
Human Brains Getting Smaller - NPR
Growing Human Brains - The Guardian (2019)
Teen Brains - NGM
"Human Gene" ARS Technica
Brain Chapter from AP Psych *
TED Talk - The Rise of Humans
TED Talk - Our Stories Make us Human
TED Talk - Our Family Tree - DNA
*- Unified Classroom Learning in PowerSchool
Topic - DNA - Human Species
National Geographic - Human Species
Why are we the only human species?
Different human species by 2050
TED Talk - Human Species Next Evolution
Topic - Vaping
Topic - The Science of Addiction
The Science of Addiction - National Institute on Drug Abuse
The Science of Addiction - The National Geographic
Addiction - TED Talk
How Science is Unlocking the Secrets to Addiction - The National Geographic
Genetics and the Brain - Genetic Science Learning Center
The Sinister Science of Addiction - Washington Post
Opioid Addiction - "Opioid Addiction and the Most Controversial Bathroom in New York" - CNN
Inside a Killer Drug Epidemic: A Look at America's Opioid Crisis - The New York Times.
College Drug Abuse - Addiction Center
TED Talk - "Everything you know about addiction is wrong"
Topic - Nanotechnology
Technology is not only expanding, it's also getting smaller. Nanotechnology is the development of technology and machines at the molecular or atomic levels. These technologies could be injected into our bodies and become very useful in combating diseases, old age, and illnesses.
Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
TED Talk - The next step
TED Talk - Human & technology symbiosis
CRISPR
CRISPR fighting cancer - NPR
What is CRISPR? Broad Institute
US National Library of Medicine
Topic: Ebola
Approaches may include: 1. general scientific information, 2. quarantines, 3. dangers/likelihood of a pandemic, 4. appropriate international response
CDC (Center for Disease Control)
WHO (World Health Organization)
TED Talk - Humanity vs Ebola