Some interesting research was published last week that, to begin with, seemed a little counter intuitive to me but actually makes sense when you look at it a little more deeply. It concerns teaching words to pre-schoolers and how best effectively to do that. They probably pick up most words just from having conversations with… Read More When It Comes To Teaching Children, A Picture Is Not Worth A Thousand Words
You may remember last year when the USDA approved a field trial of genetically modified mosquitos in Florida. Although there were the usual ideologically opposed protests the trial is progressing. Well, last week the USDA approved another field trial of a GM insect, this time the diamondback moth. The diamondback moth is an invasive species… Read More USDA Approves Release Of Genetically Modified Moth
It has been some time coming but the enormous chunk of ice that has been slowly breaking away from the side of the Larsen C ice shelf has, now, broken free. The resultant iceberg is about 5800 sq km in size and weighs in in the region of a trillion tons. That means 2 quadrillion… Read More Fracture In Larsen C Ice Shelf Results In Third Largest Iceberg Ever
More news from outer space this week where there is a race afoot in the world of astrophysics, a race to achieve what, just a decade or two ago, would have been assumed was simply not possible. Several teams around the world are doing their very best to visualise a blackhole. Now, by their very… Read More Galactic Naval Gazing
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