Tag: General Science
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Planet X may be back
This time it may be 30-70% of Earth’s mass according to Japanese researchers. If it exists, it will certainly make things interesting in local astronomy again… but after what happened to poor Pluto, I wonder what fate might fall this rock.
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American (perhaps North American) kids are not even close
According to a report released by SETDA and ISTE (summarized by THE), there are a number of points that should be addressed. I’ll comment on then as how I see Alberta and the U of A (in Science) might be handling this. First: Even if all students mastered core academic subjects, they still would be…
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Calculus
One of the most interesting things (to me at least… but then I geek out on Discovery) is the history of knowledge. So this morning when I saw something about Calculus being “fussed out” about 250 years earlier in India than it was in Europe caught my I and I sent it off to a…
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Poor Pluto, confused or clarified
I find it really interesting to follow what is going on with poor Pluto, being downgraded from planet, to dwarf and now… rock? It seems that just as any other paradigm shift that science goes through there is a fair amount of passion as well as a fair amount of science to define in the…
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Ideas on Science
I may have mentioned this before, but when I was growing up, I thought that Science, it’s methods and it’s answers were true and absolute. But then as I went through university and I took classes on the philosophy of Science I started to change my view on Science, it’s methods and it’s madness. This…