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    InfographicWhat’s in Your Trail Mix?

    The FDA supplies guidelines on food defect levels for manufacturers, which begs the question: just how much of our food is contaminated? In this infographic, Kate Sammer quantifies the defect levels in one popular snack.

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    MagazineFehler

    How do we innovate and make progress? Our answer: often by mistake. We’re celebrating mistakes and their innovative power in this collection of big and little mistakes in art, language, technology, and society.

  • Green Academy © Goethe-Institut Washington, Green Academy

    Green Academy – Fun online lectures for kids

    Starting October 29th, the Green Academy will present monthly interactive video lectures for kids ages 8 to 14. Find out with well-known TV presenter C. Biemann ("Sendung mit Maus") what amber and a balloon have in common and how this is connected to the old Greeks and much more.

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    Culture in the QuarterThe Frankfurt Book Fair Goes Online

    This year’s Frankfurt Book Fair was meant to have been the highlight of cultural exchange between Canada and Germany so far. Now the physical fair has been cancelled, a virtual fair is taking its place. Our author Andreas Platthaus writes about a slightly different book fair.
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    Career Days go Virtual!

    Join us for two US-wide virtual Career Days for high school and college students! Whether students are interested in studying in Germany or wanting to learn about career opportunities with German, we along with our partners are looking forward to answering your most burning questions.

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Digital Kinderuniversity

The Digital Kinderuniversity is a brand new, completely free, and entirely online-based program. Students can learn German while watching fun videos about science experiments.

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Fehler

How do we innovate and make progress? Our answer: often by mistake. We’re celebrating mistakes and their innovative power in this collection of big and little mistakes in art, language, technology, and society.

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