ThinkingRed

@ThinkingRed · 11 months ago

Something I’ve been really looking into lately is urban gardening. There’s something very appealing about being able to grow my own food, especially in light of the rising inflations. While I’m not go...

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@ThinkingRed · 11 months ago

Reduce Waste by Starting a Home Compost

A compost is an easy way to reduce your individual impact on global food waste. About 28% of the waste that ends up in landfills can actually be composted. But if food decomposes anyways, why bother w...

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@ThinkingRed · 1 year ago

Biggest Contributors to Food Waste

Every year, Americans waste almost 80 billion pounds of food, about 40% of our entire food supply. To put this in perspective, the USDA reported 13.5 million households in the United States suffered...

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@ThinkingRed · 1 year ago

Ugly Vegetables, Pretty Price?

Misfit Markets is a company that takes food that doesn’t make the cut for supermarkets and saves them from the landfills, cutting down on food waste. Based in the Philippines, the company sells farmer...

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@ThinkingRed · 1 year ago

History Lesson: Reformation vs Rome's Demise

What is the correlation between the Reformation and Constantine’s relocation of the capital of the Roman Empire? At first glance, nearly nothing. The two events occurred about a thousand years apart,...

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@ThinkingRed · 1 year ago

What Even Is It? CFCs and the Ozone Hole

After being discovered for its ozone layer-depleting properties in the 1970s, Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) triggered one of the most successful and unified worldwide planet-awareness movements. Though...

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@ThinkingRed · 1 year ago

What Even Are They? Food Deserts

All across the United States, about 23.5 million people do not have readily available access to healthy and affordable foods, largely because of lack of nearby supermarkets. In many cities, for exampl...

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@ThinkingRed · 1 year ago

What Even Is It? Eugenics

In 1883, Sir Franic Galton coined the term eugenics, the idea of forced sterilization to eradicate “unfit” traits. From the beginning of the 20th century up until the 1960s, politicians accepted this...

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@ThinkingRed · 1 year ago

Ding Dong! What is Sound?

Everyday, we’re bombarded by all sorts of sounds, a lot of which we can’t actually hear. Humans’ hearing ranges from 30 hertz up to 19,000 hertz, making us have one of the widest range but dogs, for e...

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@ThinkingRed · 1 year ago

National Budget? Military vs Renewable Energy

For some context, this is from a debate I participated where we had to prepare both halves of the debate. The US government ought to prioritize renewable energy over military spending. Decreasing R...

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@ThinkingRed · 1 year ago

How Revolutionary Was The American Revolution?

The time period from 1763 to 1791 revolutionized America’s political, social, and economical structure. While previous nations had been united by a similar heritage, religion or culture, America was u...

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@ThinkingRed · 1 year ago

Time Flies...Or does it?

It’s the morning of the Friday before a long weekend. You can already envision the fun trip to Disney in your mind. Those seven hours of school could not drag on any longer than they are right now. Ye...

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@ThinkingRed · 1 year ago

Why We Shouldn't Jump to Colonize Mars?

Throughout my childhood I’ve absorbed hours of space-related media. From movies to books to rendered graphics on Instagram, it is hard to not gush at the novelty of sleek, futuristic tech. After Boome...

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@ThinkingRed · 1 year ago

Rainbow on the Asphalt

The storm had taken a sharp turn inland at the last minute, smothering the sun behind dark, intrusive clouds. Trees jerked this way and that, dancing like a tortured puppet as their leaves were ripped...

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@ThinkingRed · 1 year ago

Greatest Threat to Modern Medicine?

As an outbreak gripped Hyderabad, Pakistan, doctors desperately cycled through numerous treatments for quelling the unrelenting fever associated with typhoid. Deemed XDR typhoid - extensively drug res...

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@ThinkingRed · 2 years ago

Movie Review of 5th Pirates of the Carribean

In 2003, audiences were blessed with a comedic, swashbuckling pirate movie. Everyone involved in that production understood the huge sentimental importance behind it being based off of Walt Disney’s f...

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@ThinkingRed · 2 years ago

Hey! So I've been gone for a bit, mainly due to school, but as the school year is drawing to close now, I should have much more time to write and I'm really looking forward to it! I still have some te...

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@ThinkingRed · 2 years ago

What's Up With Farming?

Factory farming, officially called concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), and industrialized agriculture, which includes both animals and crops, have both used highly controversial methods to...

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@ThinkingRed · 2 years ago

What is Sleep Paralysis?

When we sleep, our bodies must shut down and literally paralyze our bodies. This is to avoid hurting ourselves or sleepwalking while we're dreaming in REM sleep. Of course, sometimes, our brain doesn'...

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@ThinkingRed · 3 years ago

Night Contacts

While it's typically not advised to wear normal, soft contact lenses to sleep, night contacts are specially designed to be worn while sleeping to temporarily fix near-sightedness. They are specially p...

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@ThinkingRed · 3 years ago

Most Addictive Foods (and why they taste so darn good)

The 1800s and 1900s saw the influx of fast food, junk food, and other types of processed food. With drinks like diet coke practically having a cult surrounding it and foods like McDonald's being commo...

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@ThinkingRed · 3 years ago

Mouthwash and Covid-19

Last week, research from Cardiff University indicated that, in a lab, mouthwash could kill the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for Coivd-19 in 30 seconds. The team tested various over the counter brands...

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@ThinkingRed · 3 years ago

I just saw a notification informing me that my articles have accumulated more than 100 views! I'm super grateful for all of you guys and, though 100 may not seem like a lot, it means a lot to me and r...

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@ThinkingRed · 3 years ago

How to Cop The Best Discount TV

It's that time again, the week of Black Friday when everyone and their grandma are falling head over tails for some new discounted TVs as if everyone's current television has suddenly collapsed, malfu...

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@ThinkingRed · 3 years ago

H0W R 40U R34D1N9 7H15?

Our brains can recognize and convert numbers to letters pretty quickly automatically for the same reason that we can decipher messy handwriting. When we read, we process words and letters in a few ste...

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@ThinkingRed · 3 years ago

What If We Didn't Have to Eat?

Humans NEED 4 things to survive: food, water, shelter, and air. But what if we could survive without the first of those things: food. Here we'll discuss the financial, social, and global effects of no...

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@ThinkingRed · 3 years ago

Who's Got The Best Nuggets?

Simple question. You read the title. Which burger or fast food place has the best nuggets? How about with sauce? In this article, I'll be comparing Burger King, McDonald's, Wendys, and Chick-fil-A's n...

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@ThinkingRed · 3 years ago

Golden in the City

It was a bleak March day. While snow does not always look bland and ugly, on this particular day it did. No amount of Robert Frost’s poetic finesse could spice it up. Days had passed since the snowsto...

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@ThinkingRed · 3 years ago

Revolutionary Spinach Heart

In 2017, a team from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) grew a heart on the leaf of spinach. No, you didn't read that wrong. Here's how and why. Firstly, why. Organ transplants have become much mo...

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@ThinkingRed · 3 years ago

Rant about Numbers

Numbers. As a self-proclaimed math enthusiastic and a superstitious athlete, numbers play a huge role in my life. On the sports side, I'll only play in jerseys with an odd number. That means for stan...

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