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Infographic: Lake of the Ozarks: Water Quality

Devers Infographic on Lake of the Ozarks by SciJourner MacKenzie Devers     This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

Could C-Sections Cause Asthma and Allergies?

Babies born by Cesarean section are more likely to develop allergies and asthma by age two, according to a study presented February 26, 2013, at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology annual meeting in San Antonio, TX. This comes from The  Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI and leaves many professional to question the need for...

Smoke Is In The Air

  In elementary school, I was made fun of for coming to school smelling like smoke. My clothes kept the smell all day! We have a lot of people in our family that smoke. We wonder what is happening to our family’s health, but also to us and our lungs.  Second hand smoke is smoke from a...

No Pain at Any Cost?

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) runs in my family. In 2011, at the young age of 47, I started to have the telltale signs of warm and tender joint pain in my hands and feet.  I knew the devastating effects of RA after watching my older cousin suffer and lose three years of her life to the disease before it...

Infographic: Your Favorite Coffee: The Green Way

Infographic: Your Favorite Coffee;The "Green Way" Elaina Simon     This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

Infographic: Environmental Effects of Keurig Cups

Environmental Effects of Keurig Cups     Danielle Luongo This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

From the Woods to the Woodshop

       Acoustic guitar manufacturers in the United States often build with hardwoods not native to the region. Traditional acoustic guitars use mahogany, a wood native to South America and parts of Asia. However, one guitar company located in Bend, OR, has developed a unique line of acoustic guitars that is primarily composed of woods native to the U.S....