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Making Chemistry Palatable to Students Through Cooking

Author Patricia O'Hara explains how her small molecular gastronomy course transformed into popular general course on food chemistry—introducing students to the basics of chemistry through approachable recipes.
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Charles Darwin’s Living Legacy

Even today we find that some biology teachers fail to emphasize this key dimension of the life sciences for fear of backlash, or worse because they personally do not accept the validity of evolution.
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The Climate Crisis and Eroding Public Beach Access: A Q&A with Kara Murphy Schlichting, winner of the 2024 Forest History Society's Blegen Article Award

Malibu's Broad Beach is backed by some of the most expensive, exclusive real estate in Los Angeles County and is a bellwether for how California coastal communities address the tension between public access and private development in the face of the climate crisis and sea level rise.
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DNA, Race, and Reproduction

by Emily Klancher Merchant (Editor), Meaghan O'Keefe (Editor)
Jan 2025
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The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life

by Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (Author)
Feb 2023
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Renaissance Futurities: Science, Art, Invention

by Charlene Villaseñor Black (Editor), Mari-Tere Álvarez (Editor)
Nov 2019
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Rivers of the Anthropocene

by Jason M. Kelly (Editor), Philip Scarpino (Editor), and 3 more
Nov 2017
Open Access