The Elbert Files: Coffee and wine and beef, oh my Friday, May 7, 2021 6:00 AM “Our Changing Menu” is a new book by food experts and science writers about how climate change is affecting what we eat and drink. Coffee is one example. Coffee plants are “sensitive to even a small increase in temperature,” which means that “in parts of Mexico, increasing temperatures could reduce coffee production by over 30 percent, making it unviable” in some areas by the end of this decade, the authors wrote. Options include shifting production to higher altitudes or more northern latitudes, but doing so would be expensive and change the economics of the popular beverage.
Some Universities Are Now Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines for All Students and Faculty
Attending college in person may require vaccination at many privately owned institutions of higher learning.
As the spring semester comes to a close, colleges and universities are releasing plans for a safe reopening in the fall. Three prominent institutes of higher learning announced plans to require Covid-19 vaccines for all students and staff.
On March 25, New Jersey’s Rutgers University was first with an appropriately titled announcement “Our path forward.” The administration laid out plans for mandatory student Covid-19 vaccination. Faculty vaccinations are “strongly encouraged.”
Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, released its fall semester vaccine guidelines requiring students to upload proof of vaccination through the Fort Lewis App prior to enrollment.
Dr. Priscilla A. Dowden-White is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri where she currently serves as Undergraduate Advisor and teaches a variety of courses on African American history, United States history since 1865, and the history of St. Louis. She holds a B.A. in History from the University of Missouri – St. Louis, a M.P.S. in Africana Studies from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and a Ph.D. in History from Indiana University – Bloomington. Her scholarly interests include social welfare and civic activism among African Americans during the interwar period of WWI and WWII. Dr. Dowden-White is the author of the recently published book titled,
Ali Ubeyitogullari has joined the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, as a food engineer.
Fred Miller, U of A System Division of Agriculture | Apr 23, 2021
Picture this: As you walk to your car after work, you select a meal from a smartphone menu of your favorites and press “send.” By the time you get home, your food is waiting for you in a 3D printer.
Sound like science fiction? Wait…it gets better.
You can give up the guilt over choosing pepperoni pizza three times this week. During your drive home, the 3D food printer has added nanoscale micronutrients customized to your dietary needs. It also added your daily blood pressure and allergy medicines, making your pizza not only good, but good for you.
‘Orbisculate,’ word invented in CNY, added to Words With Friends dictionary
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This image provided by Zynga, Inc., shows the CNY-invented word orbisculate being used in a game of Words With Friends.
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A word that was invented in Central New York has been added to the dictionary for Words With Friends, that is.
Mobile game company Zynga, Inc., announced Monday that it added “orbisculate” to the in-game dictionary for its popular word game, Words With Friends. The Scrabble-like app also made it the “Word of the Day,” and detailed its full etymology on the WWF “Definition” page.