Tag: Science
Chemical Change Science Projects – Cool Chemistry That a Student Can Do
[ad_1] Chemistry science projects involving a chemical change are often chosen by middle and high school students. Many kids like to do an experiment with a dramatic chemical change. When searching for a project, it can be difficult to find an experiment with chemicals that are easy to find, and easy to work with. One popular […]
Art and Science – The Physics of Our Natural World, A Book Review
[ad_1] When you go to college you take psychology and philosophy courses which challenge the reality of existence, as the professor tries to get your mind to think outside the box. While this is a very good exercise, it confuses a good number of students. Perhaps I have a solution for that. Maybe all these […]
Homeschool Science – Teaching Elementary Science With Great Literature
[ad_1] How do you teach a fact-heavy subject like science with great literature? First, science is not fact-heavy, or, at least it ought not to be. British educator, Charlotte Mason called science the study of “the great scheme of the unity of life”. Abstract concepts become easy to picture and understand when they are experienced […]
Alan Turing’s school report reveals little of his genius
Items from codebreaker’s life and death go on display at Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. In 1929, a teenager’s end-of-term report noted that his English reading was weak, his French prose was very weak, his essays grandiose beyond his abilities, and his mathematical promise undermined by his untidy work. The report gave few clues that […]
‘It’s able to create knowledge itself’: Google unveils AI that learns on its own
In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, AlphaGo Zero took just three days to master the ancient Chinese board game of Go … with no human help. Google’s artificial intelligence group, DeepMind, has unveiled the latest incarnation of its Go-playing program, AlphaGo an AI so powerful that it derived thousands of years of human […]