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Better Than Chicken Wire!

By Karen Kier, Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team
Posted by Paula Scott on Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Chicken wire is a thin, flexible mesh of galvanized steel with hexagonal gaps meant to contain chickens and fowl. The wire comes in gap diameters of ½, 1, and 2 inches with gauges between 19 and 22. Chicken wire was used during World War II for radar fields and over helmets to insert leaves to make camouflage. Chicken wire can block radio and Wi-Fi signals by creating a Faraday cage. The Faraday cage was invented in 1936 by Michael Faraday to protect sensitive electronic equipment within an enclosure from external radio waves. So why am I writing about chicken wire?  

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The Animals are Talking to Us!

Posted by admin on Tuesday, August 31, 2021

By Karen Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team
ONU HealthWise Pharmacy

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Beam Me Up, Scotty!

Posted by admin on Thursday, August 26, 2021

By Karen Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team
ONU HealthWise Pharmacy

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Big Things Can Come in Small Packages

Posted by admin on Monday, August 16, 2021

By Karen Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team

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What We Can Learn From the Red Coats

Posted by admin on Thursday, August 12, 2021

By Karen Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team

April 18, 1775 was famous for the ride of Paul Revere and his fellow colonists who warned that the Red Coats were coming. The Red Coats were British Army soldiers who fought in the American Revolutionary War. The Red Coats were not well trained compared to other soldiers in the British army. The soldiers were in an unfamiliar environment with a vast countryside of harsh situations with few loyalists to help them. Why talk about the Red Coats and what do we have to learn from the British? How does this apply to COVID-19 pandemic?

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Uber is Not Just for Cars

Posted by admin on Friday, August 6, 2021

By Karen Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team

In the English language, Uber denotes an outstanding example of a particular kind of thing. However, most of us are familiar with Uber being used to describe a company that offers ride sharing services and food delivery. So with all of the bad COVID-19 news with cases increasing and hospital beds filling as well as mask mandates returning, what is the good news?

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