Nov 21, 2012

Thanksgiving tips: Keeping your kitchen clean

Thanksgiving tips: Keeping your kitchen clean, CBSNews.com, Nov. 20, 2012. The velocity of water can spray pathogens up to yard away from your sink. Ben Chapman, food and consumer sciences, featured. 

Nov 21, 2012

N.C. team explores ‘lost city’ of Petra

N.C. team explores ‘lost city’ of Petra, News & Observer, Nov. 19, 2012. In the summer of 2012, an archaeological team from NC State and East Carolina University excavated several shaft tombs on Petra’s North Ridge to recover human bones remains and artifacts in order to learn about the non-elite residents of the city. S. Thomas Parker, history,… 

Nov 21, 2012

Advice for the Annual Observance of Food-Poisoning, Umm, Thanksgiving Day

Advice for the Annual Observance of Food-Poisoning, Umm, Thanksgiving Day, Wired, Nov. 20, 2012. For people who grew up before the antibiotic era — and who learned to cook when refrigerators were literal ice chests that kept things cool at best — “food poisoning” was a reasonable fear, and a risk they refused to take. Ben Chapman,… 

Nov 20, 2012

Thanksgiving advice on the Web (some actually useful!)

Thanksgiving advice on the Web (some actually useful!), Los Angeles Time, Science Now, Nov. 20, 2012. In keeping with the spirit of the season, experts have loaded up the Web with heaping helpings of holiday advice.  Some of it is useful. Ben Chapman, family and consumer sciences, featured. 

Nov 20, 2012

Gulf spill harmed small fish, studies indicate

Gulf spill harmed small fish, studies indicate, ScienceNews, Nov. 19, 2012. Two years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon well blowout, laboratory studies are finally offering clues to the spilled oil’s impact on sea life. Damian Shea, biology, featured. 

Nov 20, 2012

NC State students use software to boost WiFi performance by as much as 700%

NC State students use software to boost WiFi performance by as much as 700%, Android Authority, Nov. 19, 2012. Students at NC State University have come up with a clever way to increase the performance of WiFi networks by as much as 700%. 

Nov 20, 2012

Gazing into the navel, scientists find a diverse ecosystem of bacteria

Gazing into the navel, scientists find a diverse ecosystem of bacteria, Washington Post, Nov. 19, 2012. The Belly Button Biodiversity project has set out to catalog just what’s living inside the navel. The project, overseen by scientists from NC State University and the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, has taken a sampling of belly button swabs from themselves as… 

Nov 19, 2012

How Not to Poison Your Family, and Other Holiday Tips

How Not to Poison Your Family, and Other Holiday Tips, North Carolina Health News, Nov. 19, 2012. Every holiday host wants to create a memorable Thanksgiving feast – but you want your guests to remember the meal, not how that food made them sick. Ben Chapman, family and consumer sciences, featured. 

Nov 19, 2012

Black Friday getting off to an earlier start

Black Friday getting off to an earlier start, Fayetteville Observer, Nov. 19, 2012. Consumer confidence is up, gas prices are down. Holiday sales growth predicted to be 4 percent or more. Mike Walden, agricultural and resource economics, featured. 

Nov 19, 2012

Don’t wash your turkey! And other food safety tips

Don’t wash your turkey! And other food safety tips, USA Today, Nov. 17 , 2012. You don’t need to wash your turkey before you roast it, and doing so can be dangerous. Benjamin Chapman, family and consumer sciences, featured 

Nov 19, 2012

McIntyre declares victory as final votes counted

McIntrye declares victory as final votes counted, Charlotte Obsever, News & Observer, Nov. 16, 2012. Two tensely watched political races got a little closer to the finish line Friday night. Results show that Democrat Mike McIntyre will return for a ninth term in Congress, barring a recount that changes the outcome. 

Nov 19, 2012

N.C. jobless rate declines

N.C. jobless rate declines, Chicago Tribune, Nov. 16, 2012. North Carolina’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell three-tenths of a percentage point to 9.3 percent, the state Division of Employment Security reported Friday. Michael Walden, agricultural and resource economics, featured. 

Nov 19, 2012

Farm fresh more than a slogan at Denver Farmers Market

Farm fresh more than a slogan at  Denver Farmers Market, Denver Weekly, Nov. 16, 2012. In North Carolina, 17 percent of jobs come from agriculture and agribusiness. Cooperatives statewide have partnered with NC State University and NC Agricultural and Technical University to provide farmers and agribusinesses with knowledge to produce quality crops and livestock in economically… 

Nov 19, 2012

Going Deep: Soliciting Explanations for the Mysteries of the Wild Life of Your Belly Button

Going Deep: Soliciting Explanations for the Mysteries of the Wild Life  of  Your Belly Button, Scientific American, Nov. 16, 2012. Scientists give you all their data in the hopes that you will outsmart them. Rob Dunn, biology, featured. 

Nov 19, 2012

‘Rainforest’ of bacteria lives in our belly buttons!

‘Rainforest’ of bacteria lives in our belly buttons!, The Indian Express et al, Nov. 16, 2012. Navels harbour an ecosystem of bacteria which is similar in their biodiversity to the world’s rainforests, a new study has claimed. Rob Dunn, biology, featured.