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 | Environment This section contains articles about science, nature, medicine, anthropology, health and the human spirit. | |
| | | | | England bans single-use plastic products and packaging by Ovi Magazine Guest England bans single-use plastic products. From October, plastic tableware, Styrofoam cups and certain food packaging may no longer be sold or used. | | | Sun-Earth Day by The Ovi Team March 18th; NASA's Sun Earth Days team is joining forces with NASA EDGE to explore the violent nature of our Sun at the peak of solar activity and share discoveries from NASA's heliophysics and planetary missions during this exciting period. | | | Steps Toward The Protection of The Oceans by Rene Wadlow On 4 March 2023, at the United Nations in New York an important step toward the protection of the oceans was taken with the presentation of a new Treaty on the High Seas for the protection of the biodiversity of the oceans... | |
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| | Farmers, water suppliers and communities work together to protect their water sources by Ovi Magazine Guest In Bolivia, 24,000 farmers in cooperation with communities and public water suppliers protect more than 600,000 hectares of forest from deforestation, exploitation, and the interests of... | | | Conversations with aliens by Jan Sand Kurt Vonnegut once speculated that if a friendly alien landed his spaceship in a populated area and made his greeting speech in his native language, which consisted of tap dancing and farting, he would have a very aggressive reception. | | | Cousteau publishes The Silent World by The Ovi Team On February 3rd, 1953, French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau publishes his most famous and lasting work, The Silent World. | | | Insulin, first use by The Ovi Team 23rd January, 1922: The first injection of Insulin (called isletin originally) on Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old diabetic who lay dying at the Toronto General Hospital on 11th January 1922 caused a severe allergic reaction. | | | Go Figure by Jan Sand Like the average guy I shop for various items in a store and try to keep the prices in my head so that when I approach the cash register I have a vague idea about how badly I am about to be hit... | | | Lick Observatory by The Ovi Team January 3rd 1888; the refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
| | | The birth of quantum theory by The Ovi Team December 14th 1900; German physicist Max Planck publishes his groundbreaking study of the effect of radiation on a "blackbody" substance, and the quantum theory of modern physics is born. | | | | next | |
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