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Commentary: Educating the Public on Food Safety

In 1993, the Pacific Northwest witnessed an outbreak of the pathogen Escherichia coli (E. coli) 0157:H7 from undercooked, contaminated hamburgers served at Seattle-area Jack in the Box fast-food restaurants (Golan et al. 2004). This foodborne illne...

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Editor's Corner: Food for Thought

Food issues often appear in the news and other media. For example, the media regularly address food safety concerns—from Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or “Mad Cow Disease” to Salmonella and Escherichia coli (E. coli) outbreaks. Obe...

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Idea Bank: Using Food Science as a Thematic Unit

While rethinking the math and science program for ninth- and tenth-grade high school students, the authors found that the math, English, and social studies teachers had the same goal—to maximize learning in all subject areas. To help meet this goal...

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Living on a Restless Earth

The human race is learning to live with the restless nature of Earth. Thanks to the work of Earth scientists, we can forecast and prepare for many natural hazards in an effort to minimize the loss of life and property. In celebration of the work Eart...

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How Small Is a Cell?

Through the following inquiry-based activity involving yeast, students learn about cell size in a way they will never forget. Essentially, each student or lab group is given one grain of active dry yeast, is asked to estimate the number of cells in t...

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Shedding Light on the Inverse-Square Law

One way to show students that they can “do” science is to have them use an observable event to generate a relationship that can be used as a predictive tool. If that relationship can be quantified using “curve-fitting” and simple algebra, an ...

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Career of the Month: An Interview with Industrial Toxicologist Greg Allgood

Are you ever curious about the safety of sugar substitutes, air pollution, or your city’s tap water? Chemicals may make the world go around, but some of them can be harmful. So how do know which ones are safe? Toxicologists work in commercial indus...

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Idea Bank: Beginning the Year with a Symposium

To address the concern of common lag time at the beginning of the school year, the science department at Detroit’s Kettering High School opened the 2002 school year with a student symposium. Each science class conducted the same experiment, analyze...

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Career of the Month: An Interview with Deep-Cave Explorer Barbara Anne am Ende

Barbara Anne am Ende first learned about the wonders of caving during a simple visit to a commercial cave at the age of 14. Shortly thereafter she took a spelunking tour (studying caves and their contents) and was hooked; she joined the National Sp...