A 16-year-old German high school student has written a paper that purports to have solved two mysteries that were beyond the intellect of the great Isaac Newton.
Shouryya Ray, an Indian-born student who won second prize this month in the math and informatics category for Germany's Jugend Forscht student science competition created formulas to answer the following questions that have puzzled scientists for centuries:
How do you account for air resistance in calculating the trajectory of ball thrown out at an angle?
Precisely how does a ball thrown against the wall rebound?
Because Ray's paper was a school-based project and was submitted for a contest, it is not subject to the publication process and peer review that professional work typically goes through. That has led some experts in the field to reserve jugement of the work until they've seen it for themselves.
However, everyone who has commented about Ray's paper has said it is an achievement that very few high schoolers could duplicate.
April 16th is Save the Elephant Day!(also called World Elephant Day).
Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus, announced in March, that by 2018, elephants will be phased out of their circus acts! This is after 145 years. Many people have questioned the treatment of these massive and unique creatures...
In March, I continued my conversations with thought leaders around the world. The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence report from PISA was yet another wake up call to the status of gender in education today. I also learned of new global initiatives to make education more accessible and more...
When discussing perspective, I like to use the old tale about the blind men and the elephant. Essentially, the blind men learn that an elephant has been brought to the village. The men have no concept of an elephant but want to touch it. As each man touches a different part of the elephant, they each provide a different description. For instance, one thinks it’s a...
"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."- American humorist Mark Twain
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Exploring the Ocean Blue:
National Week of the Oceans is March 29-April 4, 2015
Share these fun facts with your students!
Coral has been used to...
Artist Salvador Dali conceived a method for waking himself up right at the moment he fell asleep. Composer Igor Stravinsky stood on his head in the mornings while Beethoven favored long walks. Society’s highly creative thinkers have unique and unusual ways of keeping focused and innovative, proving there is no single path to creative genius.
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