Keynote speaker for MSU’s Agriculture and Natural Resources Month will address trust in science in light of COVID-19 Holly Whetstone, whetst11@msu.edu -
March 9, 2021
Keynote presenter Cary Funk, Ph.D., Pew Research Center, will kick-off a year-long theme where CANR will explore the public trust in science and science advice.
Cary Funk, Ph.D., director of science and society research at Pew Research Center.
EAST LANSING, Mich. – How has the global pandemic affected public trust in science? Are people’s opinions more or less favorable toward scientists because of COVID-19?
The Michigan State University (MSU) College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) will lead conversations and events on this topic throughout the year. To kick things off, Cary Funk, director of science and s
According to biologist Sheril Kirshenbaum in
The Science of Kissing, a couple who enjoys kissing “tends to have a more intense, healthier connection.” Studies show couples who kiss tend to live longer, too.
Why do we kiss at the end of a wedding ceremony? The custom can be traced to an ancient Roman tradition where a kiss was used to sign a contract.
Animals kiss. Even bread will kiss: Sometimes two loaves of bread will approach each other when baking and kiss. The spot where they unite is called the “kissing crust.”
Of course when you think of sweet kisses, you think of Hershey’s chocolate kisses it takes 95 Hershey’s Kisses to equal one pound (500 grams) of chocolate!
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Mitloehner s following has come from both social and traditional media. On Twitter, he is prolific, asking, for instance, why anyone would want ultra-processed faux milk compared to the real thing, or sharing the claim that vegan diets might affect intelligence. He has also written opinion pieces for Civil Eats and The Conversation, and in 2019 he criticized a tweet from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about meatless meals.
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