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National Handwashing Week: Clean Hands, Healthier Lives

National Handwashing Week: A Simple Habit for a Healthier Life

National Handwashing Awareness Week is a week-long event that highlights the significance of hand hygiene. Proper hand hygiene can reduce the spread of infections, especially during peak illness seasons like winter. Handwashing is a seemingly simple habit. Nonetheless, a number of people still did not develop this routine skill into a habit.

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Election Lab update: Minnesota and Maine are no longer swing states.

Election Lab now has 8 swing states

Changing the swing-state map from 10 states to 8 does make the race between Red and Blue closer, but the effects it has on campaign strategies is not obvious. Players who tried this new map showed us how their strategies changed.

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Learning With Election Lab Online At The Ed Games Expo

Learning With Election Lab 2024 At The ED Games Expo

In competitions and games, you cannot have two winners: one wins and the other one loses. But independent of winning or losing, it is most important that every time we learn. And if we lose, we get up, try again, play again, test different approaches and different strategies, and try to win next time.

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Activities of Daily Living: Ah, That Fall!

‘‘Maybe what life is trying to tell you is, ‘‘slow down.’’ In fact, it’s forcing you to do that’’. Now, having been a patient on crutches, I have a greater understanding of how limits to mobility impact daily living on my patients.

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