• Chances are, if you were to ask any random person on the sidewalk what their gut reaction is to hearing words like ‘bacteria’, or ‘virus’, or ‘fungus’, their response wouldn’t be too favorable. In fact, it’s highly likely – unless you happen to stumble across the random microbiologist- that the person’s answer to such a

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  • Everything within the modern world, it seems, requires some form of energy. Appliances require voltages of varying degrees from outlets. Houses need warming and ventilation. Coffee needs brewing. Lightbulbs need lighting. Generators in hospitals and industrial plants need generating. Phones and computers and all the other countless technological gadgets to be owned need recharging. Cars

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  • In the fifteenth century, various expeditions were launched from European soils to gather information on the coasts of Africa as well as discover new trading routes to the Indies. Not only would new routes be added to the existing maps of sea-voyagers from this Age of Discovery, but eventually entire continents would be added to

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  • Growing up, I was always fascinated with the show StarTrek and the show’s portrayal of vast advancements in STEM fields and the crew’s mandate to “boldly go where no man had gone before” into the vast recesses of unknown space. While I do believe we are still a ways off from interstellar travel at warp

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