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I signed up for Wikipedia using the username Abominablemystery to edit the Slime Flux page. I was interested in this page because I had previously come across pictures of this plant disease online which piqued my interest, however the Wikipedia article was a complete stub. When I first logged onto the student dashboard, there wereContinue reading “My Experience Becoming a Wikipedian”

Crop rotation is one of the most widely used methods to promote sustainable agriculture. Crop rotation is accomplished by successively growing a series of different types of crops on the same plot of land.  When only one type of crop is grown on a piece of land, the soil eventually becomes depleted of certain nutrientsContinue reading “Sustainable Agriculture Practices: Crop Rotation”

Check if your local library or university library allows you to have access to the documents in their online databases. If you are an alumni of a university, you may also be given permission for some time after your graduation date to use their databases. In addition, consider whether you can obtain access to multipleContinue reading “How to legally bypass paywalls”

Primary sources: A primary source is a source that displays original work and thinking or is the source of new evidence without any further interpretation or commentary. In the sciences, some examples of primary sources might be research journal articles, theses, lab reports, field or lab notebooks, datasets, interviews, or pictures. A typical example ofContinue reading “Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources in Science”

One documentary I considered submitting to our class film festival is Another Side of the Forest (1974), directed by Raoul Fox and Strowan Robertson and produced for the National Film Board of Canada.  The documentary is about 20 minutes long and explains the developments of the Canadian forestry industry in the 1970s. The film demonstratesContinue reading “Another Side of the Forest (1974)”

Tyrone Hayes is a biologist specializing in frogs and who is a professor at Berkeley University in California, where he got his PhD after completing an undergraduate degree at Harvard University.  Hayes is most well-known for his controversial research on the effect of herbicides (specifically the herbicide atrazine, the second most popular herbicide in theContinue reading “Tyrone Hayes”