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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

ED Surge

I want the students to do something historical, obviously—depict an event or person, perhaps—but I understand that not everyone is equally creative in the arts. Others in the class applied for and received funding from their university’s student government association and held a campus-wide night of remembrance.

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Bending Space-Time: General Relativity

STEMe

Aurora, IL The quest to unravel the enigma of gravity, the invisible force that governs the motion of celestial bodies and shapes the very fabric of our universe, can be traced back to renowned physicist and mathematician, Sir Isaac Newton.

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

Futurum

The application has since been taken up by lots of agencies, including the Council for Environmental Equality at the White House. I was especially interested in meteorology and astronomy – I love everything to do with the sky and weather. When I was younger, I always loved math and science. Todd’s top tips 1.

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Zero-g and Me

The Blog of Phyz

I am still waiting for that day but I have traveled into the stratosphere aboard NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). If they have a sum that is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to air resistance, the object will move like it is in free fall. My hometown was somewhat confused about that.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

In 1845 Kelvin (as we’ll call him) had spent some time in Paris (primarily at at a lab that was measuring properties of steam for the French government), and there he’d learned about Carnot’s work from Clapeyron’s paper (at first he couldn’t get a copy of Carnot’s actual book). But first we have to go back a bit in the story.

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