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December 9, 2018

Science Fail Monday: How a dead salmon taught us about statistics

Any scientist knows the importance of a good negative control. A negative control in an experiment is a group of samples or subjects in which no response is expected to an experimental treatment. The experimental group can then be compared to the control group. Such…

by Kasey Skinner

February 22, 2016

Four Bad Graphs, and How to be a Better “Citizen Statistician”

Statistics. Ugh. Why force-feed such a dreary topic to countless innocent students across the globe? Well, statistics is actually an outrageously important field of study. People make graphs to summarize statistical results (it’s more useful to look at a graph than a big spreadsheet full…

by Alissa Brown

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18 Oct

" ...one out of two people will suffer from a mental health crisis in their lifetime." Read an article by Alison Earley about mental health in the US and some unique resources available to @UNC students. #mentalhealth #MentalHealthFirstAid https://t.co/X0AKWah9tG

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17 Oct

Water bears seem to survive anything; the desert, arctic, and even space. How? Read an article by Amanda Smythers to learn about what makes water bears seemingly indestructible. #tardigrades #indestructible https://t.co/UMLgRZSHpa

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15 Oct

"The ocean and cryosphere are warming, inciting the rise of sea levels and increasing the severity of coastal catastrophes." Learn more about climate change, why people do not believe it, and what we can do about it in this article by Jamshaid Shahir. https://t.co/FdWnIxJ5zh

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14 Oct

Poor nutrition accounted for 11 million deaths around the world in 2017. Read this article by Kaylee Helfrich to explore which food groups are missing from our diets and what we can do to fix some of the problems that may contribute to our unhealthy diets. https://t.co/Q3GdYWSC3G

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11 Oct

"A recent study found that a calming cup of tea could actually be chock full of microplastics, harming both your body and the environment." Read this article by Allison Smith about microplastics in our food and water supply. https://t.co/SdpVkvVcEj

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10 Oct

Japan, March 11, 2011:
Earthquake ✅
Tsunami ✅
Nuclear meltdown ✅
Read this article by Syed Masood to learn more about how two natural disasters tested the limits of modern day safety practices at a nuclear power plant. #fukushima #nuclearmeltdown https://t.co/qTR6IvbDcJ

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9 Oct

"The Nobel Foundation’s choices are notable and expansive, but there is one common thread among all Nobels: most of the awardees are men." Read this article by Julia DiFiore to learn about the gender gap among Nobel Prize winners. #gendergap #NobelPrize https://t.co/atAS1wKuXA

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9 Oct

Stars, like Earth, have a magnetic field. Learn five "out of this world" facts about the new field of stellar magnetism in this article written by Liam Jones.
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2 Oct

Stars, like Earth, have a magnetic field. Learn five "out of this world" facts about the new field of stellar magnetism in this article written by Liam Jones.
https://t.co/BAtOIaHUdY

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