Brooks May
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1. Microplastics
Microplastics are small particles of plastic that can build up over time in our bodies. The effects
this can cause include cardiovascular risks, organ damage, inflammation, and reproductive
issues. Microplastics should be controlled because the problem will only worsen, and more
vulnerable people like the elderly and newborn babies will experience complications due to the
worsening problem.
2. Professor John Goodenough
Professor John B. Goodenough was famous for developing materials for RAM, as well as
materials for lithium ion batteries. The different universities he worked at are MIT Lincoln
Laboratory, University of Oxford, and the University of Texas at Austin. He received the Enrico
Fermi Award in 2009, then the National Medal of Science in 2011, and lastly the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry in 2019.
3. Electric vehicles
Electric Vehicles are in a sense greener than gasoline or diesel vehicles because they don’t
produce as many emissions. However, mining the materials required to make the batteries in the
electric vehicles causes pollution itself. Also, the disposal of batteries needs to be done properly,
as not everyone currently recycles batteries. Using the given example, The Democratic Republic
of Congo would suffer from increased usage of electric vehicles. This is because much of the
material used in the batteries, such as cobalt, comes from this country.
4. Hedy Lamarr
I have not heard of Hedy Lamarr prior to this, but after some research I learned that her work
helped inspire technology used in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi later on.