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Science and math is a heavy-duty category covering a lot of ground. It focuses on the sciences, including but not limited to astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, geography, anthropology, engineering, and mathematics.
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Earth Science Week is an international week to educate the public about earth sciences, conservation, and available careers. Learning resources and activities engage young people in exploring the relation...
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International Infection Preventionist, or IP Week, celebrates the men and women on the frontlines of disease and infection prevention. An Infection Preventionist (IP) is a healthcare professional who work...
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Finns are known for their dislike and aversion to failure. Still, with the Great Recession heavily impacting the Scandinavian country, many of its people found themselves in an unfavorable state: dependen...
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Today is the third quarter of the moon, meaning it is halfway between the full moon and the new moon.
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BOUT RECYCLE NOW WEEK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM Recycle Now Week, an annual campaign spearheaded by the national recycling campaign Recycle Now, focuses on raising awareness and encouraging recycling across...
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International Skeptics Day is an unofficial holiday that celebrates skepticism and its innumerable gifts to us. It’s one of two Skeptic’s Days on the calendar, and the first is National Skeptics Day, whic...
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Augusta Ada Byron-King was an aristocrat in England, ennobled with the title The Countess of Lovelace. But, she was a little bit more than that. Ada was well ahead of her time. A scientist, mathematicia...
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The film series Jurassic Park popularized paleontology, which is the science devoted to fossils. Fossils are the remains (bones) or impressions (molded into rock) of prehistoric animals, plants, and organ...
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Black in Natural History Museums Week is an initiative to share the stories, perspectives & knowledge of people of African ancestry in the Natural History Museum community. Dates can be anytime in October...
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National Chemistry Week is a community-based program of the American Chemical Society (ACS) that unites businesses, schools, and individuals around the importance of chemistry to quality of life. The mis...
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Lead poisoning continues to be a severe problem, especially in older buildings where paint peels and children often eat it. It can also be present in the dust and inhaled, in soil, water and air. Working...
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Nuclear Science Week (NSW) is an internationally observed week-long celebration of all aspects of nuclear science. NSW takes place each year on the third week of October, and each day of NSW focuses on th...
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The New Moon occurs when the moon and the sun have the same elliptical longitude when the moon is at its closest point to the sun in its orbit. From earth, we usually cannot see it. The New Moon is consid...
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National Reptile day is promoted by Reptile Magazine and supported by several environmental organizations. It seeks to raise awareness and respect for reptiles' role in the ecosystem and encourage best pr...
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Mole Day brings awareness to a numerical equation. Celebrated by chemists, chemistry students, and science enthusiasts, it commemorates Avogadro's Number (6.02 x 10 to the 23rd power), a basic measuring u...
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Saving the World One Thermostat at a Time – the hows and whys of thermostat recycling by Ryan L. Kiscaden (Edited for grammar and clarity by LEEP Calendar) A Brief Background Honeywell, White-Rogers, a...
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Youth Climate Action Day is a worldwide movement of young people who are not indifferent to climate change and global injustice. Since 2012 young people in several countries have started concrete actions...
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International Internet Day marks the invention of the Internet in 1969 by Leonard Kleinrock at UCLA. It was called ARPANET. The original idea came from MIT's JCR Licklider in 1962 via a concept he call...
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The first quarter moon occurs when the moon is one-half illuminated by the sun. Each day forward increases the amount of the moon you can see. The 1st quarter typically occurs seven days after the New Moo...
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Since World War II, hundreds of thousands of men and women have served the United States by building nuclear weapons for the country's defense. Many workers have paid a high price for their service, devel...