Tag: Renaissance

  • Growing Use of Nanoparticles in Product Manufacture

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    Here’s one more thing to give you pause when you’re shopping.  Christine Chew alerts us to nanoparticles used in food and clothing manufacture on the care2 make a difference blog: You can’t see them but they are there. Nanoparticles have been used, more and more, in food packaging, pesticides, cosmetics, clothing, toys, kitchenware and more over the past…

  • People of Color In the Middle Ages Not an Anachronism

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    I ran across the blog Medieval POC while reading an article at the Oxford University Press. The focus of the blog is to “showcase works of art from European history that feature People of Color” and to “address common misconceptions that People of Color did not exist in Europe before the Enlightenment”. Here’s a recent post: The all-white…