F. Dill

I'm a chemist and educator. I've done work in cancer research and environmental monitoring. I've lived on three continents but call Florida home.

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Education
Most Teachers Won't Have Enough Retirement Savings Under Pension Plans, Study Finds
edweek.org - Madeline Will
By onMarch 17, 2019 10:00 PM Teachers who plan to stay in the classroom and work in the same state for their entire career will have a steady stream …
Education
Elite Colleges Make Low-Income Students Feel Unwelcome
The Atlantic - Clint Smith
Unwritten rules underlie all of elite-university life—and students who don’t come from a wealthy background have a hard time navigating them. Last Tuesday, the Justice Department charged 50 people with
News
Turkey announces joint raids with Iran against Kurdish rebels
AlJazeera - Andrew Wilks
Interior minister says Turkey and Iran launched joint operation against PKK, a claim state media in Tehran denies. Turkey and Iran have launched a joint military operation against Kurdish rebels along
World News
Stomach Of Dead Whale Contained 'Nothing But Nonstop Plastic'
NPR - Dalia Mortada
Updated at 5:44 p.m. ET Darrell Blatchley received a call from the Philippines' Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources early Friday morning reporting that it had a young Cuvier's beaked whale that weak
This 22-year-old college student makes $10,000 a month off Amazon's Alexa
CNBC - Ali Montag
David Markey, a 22-year-old senior studying applied mathematics and economics at Brown University, got his first Amazon Echo during the e-commerce …
Mark Cuban
'Shark Tank' billionaire Mark Cuban: 'If I were going to start a business today,' here's what it would be
CNBC - Catherine Clifford
Tech titan Mark Cuban listens to entrepreneurs' countless business ideas thanks to his starring role as a judge on ABC's "Shark Tank." But Cuban …
Asteroids
Huge meteor explosion over Earth last year went unnoticed until now
newscientist.com - Donna Lu
A meteor caused a massive explosion over Earth last year, but nobody noticed until now. It is the second-largest recorded impact in the past century, …
News
Dead Whale Found With 88 Pounds of Plastic Inside Body in the Philippines
The New York Times - By DANIEL VICTOR
A beached whale found in the Philippines on Saturday died with 88 pounds of plastic trash inside its body, an unusually large amount even by the grim standards of what is a common threat to marine wildlife.
Science
US detects meteor explosion 10 times the energy as atomic bomb: report
Fox News - Edmund DeMarche
If a massive meteor explodes above Earth and there are no iPhones to capture it on video, did it really happen? Lindley Johnson, a planetary defense officer for NASA, told the BBC on Sunday that an historic
Magnetism
People can sense Earth’s magnetic field, brain waves suggest
sciencenews.org - Maria Temming
An analysis of brain waves offers new evidence that people subconsciously process information about the planet’s magnetism.
Science
Humans—like other animals—may sense Earth’s magnetic field
sciencemag.org - Kelly Servick
A study published today offers some of the best evidence yet that humans, like many other creatures, can sense Earth’s magnetic field. But it doesn’t …
Immune System
7 Weird Ways Magnesium Affects Your Body, According To Science
Bustle - JR Thorpe
Magnesium doesn't necessarily get a lot of attention; we don't hear as much about how necessary it is compared to say, calcium or vitamin D. And yet …
Carbon Fiber
This Engineer Built a Crazy Unmanned Vehicle to Break World Records, and It Accidentally Became a Venture-Backed Startup
Inc Magazine - Kevin J. Ryan
In 2009, a wind-powered vehicle with no engine blazed across the Mojave Desert at a record-setting 126.2 mph. The craft was designed by British engineer Richard Jenkins, who next decided to build one the
News
Trump admin to ban entry of International Criminal Court investigators
NBC News - Dan De Luce
The U.S. has never signed on to the International Criminal Court and the court has never prosecuted Americans for war crimes since it was set up in 2002. The United States will repeal or deny visas to
News
US detects huge meteor explosion
bbc.co.uk - By Paul Rincon
A huge fireball exploded in the Earth's atmosphere in December, according to Nasa.
Salmon
FDA Puts U.S. Consumers at 'Serious Risk' by Allowing GE Salmon 'Frankenfish' Imports
ecowatch.com - Common Dreams
By Jessica Corbett The Trump administration has lifted a ban on importing genetically engineered or GE salmon, which critics have long called …
Exoplanets
Are We In A 'Galactic Zoo' Protected By Aliens? Scientists Meet To Investigate The 'Great Silence'
Forbes - Jamie Carter
Are we alone? Probably not. After all, astronomers have already found 4,001 confirmed exoplanets in our Milky Way galaxy, and expect there to be over 50 billion exoplanets out there. For scientists gathering
Black Sea
Putin marks 5th anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea
pbs.org - Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin led thousands to chant “Russia!” on a visit Monday to Crimea marking the fifth anniversary of the Black Sea …
World News
Cuban doctors on mission in Venezuela say they were forced to tie medical treatments to votes for Maduro
Fox News - Elizabeth Llorente
Cuban doctors dispatched to Venezuela as part of Cuba’s mission to help the South American nation’s medical needs were pressed by the host government to tie crucial treatments and medication to a patient’s
News
Utrecht Shooting Updates: Gunman Kills 3 on Tram, Suspect Arrested
The New York Times - By MILAN SCHREUER and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
UTRECHT, Netherlands — Gunshots shattered the tram ride in a heavily Muslim neighborhood of this old Dutch city. The prime minister called it possible terrorism. SWAT teams rushed in, residents were ordered
Science
Fertility app 'as good' at preventing unplanned pregnancy as the pill, trial finds
The Telegraph - By Henry Bodkin
Fertility apps which tell women when they are safe to have unprotected sex may be as good at preventing pregnancy as taking the pill, a new study suggests. The first large, high-quality investigation its
World Economic Forum
These seven moral rules unite human beings, according to research
weforum.org - Jenny Anderson
In 2012, Oliver Scott Curry was an anthropology lecturer at the University of Oxford. One day, he organized a debate among his students about whether …
News
Gunman Aboard a Tram Kills at Least 3 in Utrecht, the Netherlands
The New York Times - By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE, CLAIRE BARTHELEMY and MILAN SCHREUER
Three people died and five were injured on Monday in a shooting on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht, which the authorities called a possible terrorist attack, and a manhunt was underway for a gunman
Utrecht
Live updates: Utrecht tram shooting leaves three dead - CNN
CNN - Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Meg Wagner, CNN
Science
'Impossible' discovery found on remote island off African coast: A 'lost part of the world'
Fox News - Chris Ciaccia
Researchers have found rocks on a small island between Madagascar and the eastern coast of Africa, a discovery that has been described as mysterious for one very important reason — they shouldn't be there.
Exoplanets
A “halo drive” could accelerate interstellar spacecraft to close to the speed of light
MIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv
Borrowing energy from black holes would offer a highly efficient way to navigate our galaxy, an astronomer says. Back in 2016, the physicist Stephen …
Polling
Kids aren't growing up: Shocking new poll says parents are killing kids' life skills
USA TODAY - Sonja Haller
While we're clucking over the college admissions bribery scandal, those of us with children too young to worry about higher education gaze up from our smartphones and remind our tweens and teens that due
Webcomics
Daily low-dose aspirin no longer recommended as heart attack preventative for older adults
CNN - By Sandee LaMotte, CNN
(CNN) — If you're a healthy older adult looking for ways to reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke, don't turn to that age-old standby: daily low-dose aspirin. It's no longer recommended as a preventative
News
'Clear' Similarities Between Ethiopian And Indonesian Plane Crashes, Official Says
NPR - Francesca Paris
Updated at 6:03 p.m. ET Data retrieved from the black boxes of the Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed all 157 people on board last week show "clear" similarities with the crash of a Lion Air jet in last
News
Palestinian suspected in killing two Israelis, wounding one in West Bank attack
The Washington Post - By Ruth Eglash
JERUSALEM — Two Israelis were killed and one other seriously wounded after a Palestinian assailant opened fire at two locations in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Israeli authorities said, the latest