Remember the Flame Challenge? Alan Alda’s quest to find someone who can explain at an elementary-school level what a flame is? Well, an American quantum optics student studying … Read the rest “Ben Ames wins the Flame Challenge. He shows how fire works.”
New Scientist discusses the future of the academy, in which teachers have been replaced by essay-grading robots:
… Read the rest “Robots make the grade on essay questions.”Grading software from nine manufacturers, which together cover 97 per
Alan Alda asks exactly the right question in exactly the right way:
… Read the rest “The simple elegance of the Flame Challenge.”As a curious 11-year-old, Alan Alda asked his teacher, “What is a flame?” She replied: “It’s oxidation.” Alda went on to
Popular Mechanics recently investigated the forensics of the zombie head shot:
… Read the rest “The Walking Dead anatomy lesson.”Dr. Steven Schlozman, has written extensively about the brain function of undead zombies (as opposed to
We need more science jobs. Over at ScienceBlogs, they crunch the numbers:
… Read the rest “We don’t need more science education.”Like many other things in life, you get what you pay for (if you’re lucky). As long as financial ‘engineering’
Discover’s Bad Astronomy blog celebrates a new effort to teach more science:
… Read the rest “Prez sends science schooling rocketing.”I was particularly excited to hear Obama announce an annual science fair to be held at the White House!
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As if we needed someone to tell us about it, Science Daily informs us Americans that we’re failing at basic scientific literacy:
… Read the rest “We’re not doing science right.”Despite its importance to economic growth, environmental
New Scientist thrills me with a new push to get the entertainment industry to understand science:
… Read the rest “Hollywood, Meet Science.”The new effort, called the Science and Entertainment Exchange, is a project of the US National
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