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The Order of Crystallography

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Chicago Council on Science and Technology presents “The Order of Crystallography”

CHICAGO, Illinois (January 13, 2014) Crystallography, or the science of how matter is arranged, has been around for a long time—the birth of X-ray crystallography was 100 years ago.  Using the science of visualizing molecules in 3D has helped society build everything from better medicines to stronger materials. Despite huge advances in the field, and advantages to society, most folks remain unaware of the implications to materials engineering and on research methods today. UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has named 2014 the International Year of Crystallography. Help Chicago Council on Science and Technology celebrate crystallography’s place in our lives—and in Chicago.

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Crowdfunding Gold under the Reading Rainbow

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By Scott Michael Slone

Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high…

Many of our readers might be familiar with Reading Rainbow, an educational children’s show that aired on PBS during the 80’s, 90’s, and early 2000’s. It was a show dedicated to promoting reading in a child’s life and promoting critical thinking about what they were reading, much like the show Bill Nye The Science Guy promoted scientific thought and analysis. Continue reading “Crowdfunding Gold under the Reading Rainbow”

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The Multiplication of Threats: Climate Change & the Risks to National Security

Climate security has brought environmentalists and militaries across the world into a unique accord: both are concerned by the effects that climate change does and will have on existing situations of insecurity. The U.S. Department of Defense declared the threat of climate change impacts a very serious national security vulnerability that, among other things, could enable further terrorist activity. They deem climate change a “threat multiplier.”

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