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(comment) Such a good tip! We always end up wasting lots of the non-ornaments we put on our trees so I’ll be sure to try these out!

@ThinkingRed 1 year ago

@ThinkingRed · 1 year ago

Urban Farming Hack

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 · 1 year 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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(comment) Wow! I never knew about this! I thought that the majority of communication of plant life had to do with some sort of chemical pheromone but I'd never thought of it being an electrical one, especiall...

@ThinkingRed 2 years ago

(comment) Thank you for the comment and upvote! The time of the Byzantine empire was indeed a very interesting period of history!

@ThinkingRed 2 years ago

@ThinkingRed · 2 years 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 · 2 years 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 · 2 years 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 · 2 years 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 · 2 years 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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(comment) Interesting! My mother used to drink a glass of hot water with lemon juice every morning and she always insisted that it was the reason she never got sick, even when the rest of the family did.

@ThinkingRed 2 years ago

(comment) I totally agree that our goal should be to limit our large-scale production of goods as well as limit the wars we get involved. That would greatly reduce the financial burden of needing to spend hun...

@ThinkingRed 2 years ago

@ThinkingRed · 2 years 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 · 2 years 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...

1 likes · 1 comments · Just Write (e5e5)

(comment) This is very interesting! I've never heard about it before. Is the last picture from a movie?

@ThinkingRed 2 years ago

(comment) Keep it up! You're not a bad writer at all!

@ThinkingRed 2 years ago

(comment) Very interesting! I'm interested in how the tree knows when to come out of dormancy though if it doesn't have any more leaves with chloroplasts to sense daylight (I'd assume it's got to do with the...

@ThinkingRed 2 years ago

@ThinkingRed · 2 years 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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(comment) I totally agree that space travel is likely the next large phase of development and hope to see the field grow alongside effects to address issues on Earth. Thank you for your insightful comment!

@ThinkingRed 2 years ago

@ThinkingRed · 2 years 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 · 2 years 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 · 2 years 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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(comment) If cinnamon is causing trouble, I've always used honey and lemon in hot/warm water and it works wonders :). Hope she feels better soon!

@ThinkingRed 2 years ago

(comment) This is so cool! I actually find it really interesting though that, even though this life form was found on a foreign meteorite, it still shares similar DNA at all!

@ThinkingRed 2 years ago

@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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(comment) How about the old saying "A picture is worth a thousand words"

@ThinkingRed 3 years ago