My ASSIST Presentations

Here they are.

Mad Cow Disease (PowerPoint 2007)

Asbestosis (PowerPoint 2007)

Two more days to go folks…

ASSIST Project Links (work in progress)

Mad Cow Disease:

• Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• prion
• PRNP
• amyloids
• kuru
• Fatal familial insomnia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• scrapie
• chronic wasting disease
• Prions in Urine? — 310 (5746): 191a — Science
• BSE - Proof Cattle (Washington Post)

Asbestosis:

• Asbestosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• asbestos
• Asbestos Exposure - National Cancer Institute, USA
• Integrated Risk Information System: Asbestos
• asbestosis - Google Image Search

“The Seven Plastics Thing”

Here it is.  It’s a Publisher 2007 file.  Have fun, kids.

Click HERE to download the thing.

Class Links - Friday, 6/13/2008 (superstition edition)

Toxicology and Epidemiology:

• Human Health: USGS
  
• Epidemiology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Epidemiology - home
• EPA: Welcome to ECOTOX
• Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) | IRIS | US EPA
• Toxicology Problem Set

Various Diseases:

• What is river blindness?
• Necrotizing fasciitis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Overcoming Necrotizing Fasciitis, the Flesh-Eating Disease
• Boy, 12, contracts amoebic meningitis after lake swim - Austin, Texas
• Toxoplasmosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Mercury poisoning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Typhoid Mary (Great video!  Buy one!!)

• NOVA | The Most Dangerous Woman in America | PBS
• WGBH Shop / PBS and Public Television videos and DVDs
• Amazon.com: NOVA - Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman in America

Outbreak Detection and Containment:

• Outbreak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Texas Department of State Health Services, News Updates

Hantavirus:

• Hantavirus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Virus That Caused Deaths Among Navajos Is Isolated - New York Times

Ebola:

• Ebola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Ebola Zaire Outbreaks

Class Links - Wednesday AND Thursday, 6/11 - 6/12

Paper Production:

• Paper Online
• Hydromulch Products & Additives

General Recycling:

• Ecologic Designs
• Made in Cotton (pdf file)
• Recycling symbols
• Solar water disinfection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Degradable Plastic Bags
• Green Plastics: the home page for environment-friendly technology in the new millenium

Composting:

• Compost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Compost tea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Compost in 14 -21 days & How to make a Tumbler Bin Composter - YouTube

Toxic Waste:

• Hazardous Waste | Wastes | US EPA
• Toxic Waste
• Love Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Sludge Lagoons Proposed for Toxic Waste Disposal

The landfill thing…

… is a work in progress.  I’ll have it, trust me… and it’ll be pretty darn good, too.

I just finished the 7 plastics thing.  Hope all you folks like it.  I’ll post a link to it here soon.

Blarg… need more coffee.

Class Links - Tuesday, 6/10/2008 (short and sweet)

Identity Theft:

• The Torn-Up Credit Card Application

Waste Management:

• Landfill Site Selection (pdf file)
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Waste management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Refuse-To-Energy Incinerator
• The flow diagram of the incinerator installed at Kureha Kankyo Co_, Ltd
• snopes.com: Buried Atari Cartridges

I’ll have a few words on today’s movie… later!

Class Links - Monday, 6/9/2008

Refuse Problems in the Philippines:

• Children Living in the Garbage, Payatas, Manila, Philippines
• The Quest for Zero Garbage in the Philippines (May 2003)

Reducing Packaging:

• Wal-Mart Launches 5-Year Plan to Reduce Packaging | GreenBiz.com
• Reduce Packaging

Refuse and Recycling:

• EPA Waste Report (pdf file)
• Plastic Container Codes - The Green Guide
• Tommy Lewis Industries, Plainview, TX on MacRAE’s Blue Book Industrial Directory of Manufacturers

Computer Waste in China:

• E-waste dump of the world - The Seattle Times
• Where computers go to die — and kill | Salon News

Landfills:

• The Anatomy of a Landfill
• Environmental Protection Agency: landfill anatomy
• “How Landfills Work” - howstuffworks.com

Random Silliness (I’m a SILK, by the way…):

• DINK, DINKY, SITCOM… the urban acronyms

Class Links - Thursday, 6/5/2008

Speciation — General Discussion:

• Speciation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Species - MSN Encarta
• Lamarckism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Group selection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Character displacement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Examples from Class:

• Category:Cave fish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• BBC - h2g2 - Determination of Eye Colour
• Red Wolf Recovery Program
• Hinny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Parthenogenesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• ADW: Peromyscus maniculatus: Information
• ADW: Spermophilus tridecemlineatus: Information
• Cochliomyia hominivorax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Other Stuff:

• Image:Galapagos-satellite-esislandnames.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• JSTOR: Evolution, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Sep., 1973 ), pp. 378-386
• Scientific couple still has chemistry after 42 years (Lubbock AJ, May 11, 1997)
  

Class Links - Wednesday, 6/4/08

General Resource Sites:

• Biology Corner — Teaching Resources
• OLogy - Biodiversity
• The Environmental Literacy Council

Phosphorus Cycle:

• Phosphorus cycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Apatite Mineral Data

Algal Blooms:

• Algal bloom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Harmful Algal Blooms Index

Acid Rain:

• Acid rain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Acid Rain | US EPA

Caddo Indians:

• The Caddo Indians, Texas Indians
• HISTORY OF CADDO INDIANS

Ecological Succession:

• Succession - The stages in ecological succession, Secondary succession
• Examining Stages in Ecological Succession
• Ecological Succession