Introduction

Today, you’ll learn about how some cleaning products in your kitchen may be terrible for the environment even though they’re labeled “green,” hot blobs of iron playing games with Earth’s magnetic field and how some far-out theories in physics predict there are infinite versions of you.

Your green cleaning products may not actually be so clean OR green. 

How do household cleaning products affect the environment? by Alexandra Franklin-Cheung

• https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/how-do-household-cleaning-products-affect-the-environment/

Household Cleaning Products Market by Precedence Research

• https://www.precedenceresearch.com/household-cleaning-products-market

Are your cleaning products really green? Here’s how to tell. by Shaena Montanari

• https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/sustainable-cleaning-products/

EPA.gov

• Identifying Greener Cleaning Products
  • https://www.epa.gov/greenerproducts/identifying-greener-cleaning-products
• EPA Safer Choice-Certified Product Search
  • https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice/products
• EPA DfE-Certified Product Search
  • https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-labels/dfe-certified-disinfectants
• The Effects: Dead Zones and Harmful Algal Blooms
  • https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/effects-dead-zones-and-harmful-algal-blooms

How to find ‘green’ cleaning products that get the job done by Laura Daily

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/choosing-green-cleaning-products/2021/08/23/e7a20ba4-fea2-11eb-ba7e-2cf966e88e93_story.html

Microplastics are everywhere — but are they harmful? By XiaoZhi Lim

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01143-3

Cosmetic Fragrance and Flavor Ingredient Right to Know Act of 2021 by Breast Cancer Prevention Partners

• https://www.bcpp.org/resource/cosmetic-fragrance-and-flavor-ingredient-right-to-know-act-of-2021/

Hot blobs of iron playing games with Earth’s magnetic field. 

The Magnetic North Pole Is Rapidly Moving Because of Some Blobs by Jennifer Leman

• https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a32496561/why-magnetic-north-pole-moving/

The north magnetic pole is leaving Canada for Siberia. These 'blobs' may be the reason why. by Laura Geggel

• https://www.livescience.com/magnetic-north-pole-to-siberia.html

Fact check: A compass is oriented to the Earth's magnetic field lines, doesn't prove flat earth by Kate S. Petersen

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/02/22/fact-check-compass-works-globe-because-magnetic-field-lines/6848272001/

Strong planetary magnetic fields like Earth's may protect oceans from stellar storms by Royal Astronomical Society

• https://phys.org/news/2019-03-strong-planetary-magnetic-fields-earth.html

Origins of Earth’s magnetic field remain a mystery by Jennifer Chu

• https://news.mit.edu/2020/origins-earth-magnetic-field-mystery-0408

When north goes south: Is Earth's magnetic field flipping? by Chris Holt

• https://astronomy.com/news/2021/09/when-north-goes-south-is-earths-magnetic-field-flipping

Flip Flop: Why Variations in Earth's Magnetic Field Aren't Causing Today's Climate Change By Alan Buis, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/3104/flip-flop-why-variations-in-earths-magnetic-field-arent-causing-todays-climate-change

How some far-out theories in physics predict there are infinite versions of you. 

Parallel Worlds Exist and Interact With Our World, Say Physicists by Bryan Nelson

• https://www.treehugger.com/parallel-worlds-exist-and-interact-with-our-world-say-4863488

Do parallel universes exist? We might live in a multiverse. by Vicky Stein and Daisy Dobrijevic

• https://www.space.com/32728-parallel-universes.html

The Real Science of the Multiverse by Jess Romeo

• https://daily.jstor.org/the-real-science-of-the-multiverse/

What is multiverse theory by Paul Sutter

• https://www.livescience.com/multiverse

Are Many Worlds and the Multiverse the Same Idea? by Sean Carroll

• https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/are-many-worlds-and-the-multiverse-the-same-idea

The weirdest idea in quantum physics is catching on: There may be endless worlds with countless versions of you. By Corey S. Powell

• https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/weirdest-idea-quantum-physics-catching-there-may-be-endless-worlds-ncna1068706

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