It’s late October, which means that the thoughts of small children and adults who have never quite grown up turn to selecting appropriate costumes for Halloween. In the spirit of these literary suggestions and these abstract concept suggestions, I thought it would be useful to offer some suggestions for physics-themed costumes, for those who...
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- Kerala cardinal seeks peaceful solutionAmid a raging row over the killing of two Indian fishermen by Italian soldiers, a cardinal from Kerala has appealed to the state authorities not to resort to precipitate action and warned the opposition against trying to exploit the situation. After the last week incident, “I immediately contacted the Catholic Ministers of Kerala urging the government not to […]
- Kerala gets country’s first rail coach factoryThe foundation stone for the Indian Railway’s first coach factory in Kerala was laid at Palakkad on Tuesday. Railways minister Dinesh Trivedi laid the foundation stone for the Rs 550 crore factory. The rail coach factory is being built at Puthusseri West village in Palakkad. The factory is the first factory in the country manufacturing aluminium rail coaches […]
- Kerala fronts want change in by-poll dateBoth the Congress-led ruling UDF and the CPI(M)-headed Opposition LDF in Kerala want the schedule of the by-election in Piravam Assembly constituency changed. As per the schedule announced by the Election commission two days back, polling in Piravam would be held on March 18. It was the LDF which had first called for a revision in the by-poll schedule saying […]
- Amitabh Bachchan fans pray to Lord Shiva for his recoveryHundreds of worried fans of ailing Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan today performed a yagna here to pray for his speedy recovery. “We are using the auspicious occasion of Maha Shivratri to pray to Lord Shiva to help him recover painlessly from his health problems,” Sourav Banerjee of Amitabh Bachchan Fans Association of Kolkata, told. Dressed in tradition […]
- Anna Hazare to receive Rs 25 lakh award for rural developmentSocial activist Anna Hazare will receive an award of Rs 25 lakh from a Delhi-based organisation for his contribution to rural development. The award, instituted by Sitaram Jindal Foundation, will be given on February 23 at a function in New Delhi, Hazare’s aide Datta Awari told PTI from Ralegan Siddhi. “Hazare will also attend a Team Anna core committee meet […]
Conceptual Physics Costumes for Halloween
Record-Breaking Neutron Star Is Clue to Exotic Physics
A quick-spinning stellar corpse is the most massive of its kind ever seen. The dead star’s extra bulk could rule out several theories about what these dense stellar objects are made of — and provide a celestial lab to explore exotic matter. “For people who work in this field, it’s huge,” said neutron-star astronomer...
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Professor Anku boosts interest in practical mathematics
Professor Sitsofe E. Anku, President of Ghana Mathematics Society, on Tuesday expressed the need for practical mathematics to be made an integral part in teaching the subject to make it easy for students. He said studying mathematics should not only gear towards examination and neglecting the basic understanding of its concept, which constitutes the...
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Thumbs up to new maths course
Arithmetic, abacus, calculations and cheerful kids enjoying every moment of it. This unlikely scene played out in the capital Sunday at the fifth Northern Region Abacus and Mental Arithmetic competition. Organised by Sociable Intellectual Progressive Academy (SIP), the annual event helps children develop memory, concentration, and arithmetic skills by using internationally proven tools like...
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Airtel launches Maths, Science learning application
New Delhi: Adding another feather to its value added services hat, Bharti Airtel on Thursday launched an application which would help its users to learn science and mathematics with more ease. In collaboration with Next Education India, an e-learning company,Bharti launched ‘LearnNExt’, an e-learning website for its broadband users wherein students of class VI...
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Primary schoolkids to learn English
LUDHIANA: To strengthen the Padho Punjab Project, the office of Punjab Director General School Education (DGSE) and state project director of Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan Authority has decided that all primary teachers will get training in teaching English in addition to maths and Punjabi that are already being taught under the project.
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