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The tradition of consuming cannabis orally is an ancient, perhaps tens of thousands of years old, while cannabis smoking is much more recent. (Jardin, 2014) In order to consume your own edibles though you are going to have to make your own cannibutter. You are going to want to gather all the ingredients and tools required to make the product. Then you are going to grind up the flowers and leaves of the female plants for easier THC extraction. After all the simmering is done you are going to…

Nowadays, urban air pollution includes hundreds of chemical substances including sulfur dioxide, ozone, nitrogen oxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, particulate matter and many other compounds7. The impact of this pollution is apparent in the heavy smog that is seen in large cities like Beiing11 and London. In the 1950s, London England smog episodes would be lethal and resulted in more than 3,000 deaths7…

The crops that are grown around the world for human consumption thrive in exact conditions which may no longer be met with the impending threat of increased climate change. Meteorological events such as droughts will become more frequent as the climate transforms over time, reducing the water available for agricultural irrigation. Moreover, general increases in temperature could make it impossible to grow food in areas that currently serve as the best suppliers, and are likely to make way for…

In mid-September 2015, the Volkswagen (VW) scandal erupted in the United States, creating a shockwave in the diesel automobile sector both domestic and international. US authorities accused VW of installing “defeat devices” in nearly half a million cars between 2009 and 2015 to make them appear less polluting than they actually are. Independent tests done by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) confirmed that a selection of VW vehicles were emitting up to 40 times more…

With the introduction of the automobile at the end of the 19th century, who would have thought it would lead to brown clouds and toxic rain? But here it is over a 100 years later and the world literally has made a mess of things, especially the air. Of course cars are not the only contributor, but energy in general is a main source of our planet 's air pollution problem. All world citizens should be aware of this sometimes visible but sometimes invisible hazard in the air that all humans are…

gas that comes from the radioactive decay of Uranium, which are found in soil and rock throughout the world. This radon then breaks down into solid radioactive elements which are called radon Progeny. This radon progeny can then attract to air particulates and if inhaled can give off high energy radiation which can damage the DNA inside the body’s cells. In comparison with Radon in outdoor air, humans confined air spaces, such as mines and buildings, are exposed to higher concentrations of…

to the soil sample until the mixture reached 35 mL. The mixture was then vortexed and shaken at 250 rpm for 1 hour. Next, the tube was centrifuged at 2,000 x g force for 10 minutes in order to separate the particulate matter from the liquid medium containing phage. The aggregate of particulate matter left behind is known as the pellet. The remaining liquid containing the phage is known as supernatant.The supernatant was filtered through a .22 micron filter in order to extract phages. Since…

Molly is a 57-year-old African American female. She has lived the majority of her life in a low-income neighborhood raising her three children, all who are now adults. Her husband died in a car accident while her children were in grade school and she kept the family afloat working various minimum wage jobs. Molly had battled with depression since her husband’s passing and at times wondered how she was going to make it financially. She had isolated herself from social activities and only spoke to…

Every year, thousands of pollutants enter our atmosphere, and this has had a profound effect on our entire lives. As companies pump gasses and chemical into the air , everything from our health, to our weather, to our quality of life has been affected. These changes have led to deteriorating conditions to our health and the natural balance yet very little is done to stop it. Air pollution has had detrimental effects on the health of people around the world. In nations like China, the air is…

The set of bacteria living in the gut it is called intestinal flora although it is now called intestinal microbiota, the human intestinal tract is home to a diverse and complex microbial community that plays a central role in human health, it is estimated that our gut contains the range of 1000 bacterial species and 100 times more genes found in the human genome The composition of our intestinal flora is formed during embryonic development and can be modified by factors such as diet of pregnant…