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May 3, 2017
Should you take statins? Everything you need to know including who benefits most
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: futurism
We try to separate the facts from fiction about the controversial cholesterol-buster
ByMirror.co.uk
May 3, 2017
This object appears to have moved faster than the speed of light
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: futurism
This object, V838 Monocerotis, looks like it moved faster than the speed of light. We know what you’re going to say–nothing moves faster than light. Well, we didn’t say it did move faster…just that it looks like it did.
Full story at YouTube.
I came up with a neat idea for a multiplication grid visual the other day, and stuck it up on Twitter where it has been doing the rounds with unprecedented alacrity:
I’ve loved reading comments and seeing how people are using the grids already, with fellow teachers, students and your own kids (I’m making one on A1 squared paper for my son this weekend – here’s one 3-year-old who will know what multiplication means before he learns his tables, if I can manage it!) A few of you came up with ideas for variations I could do, including starting the grid from the bottom-left to mimic a Cartesian coordinate grid, and emphasizing square numbers. I’ve also done one with the prime factorization of numbers on one side of the diagonal, which I quite like. I’ve put all the images together into a single pdf document to make it easier to access. It’s on my website at www.thechalkface.net/resources/true_scale_multiplication_grid.pdf:
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Apr 29, 2017
Firefighters can see through smoke with new thermal mask
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Story highlights
- Smoke can hide unconscious victims from firefighters
- Firefighters have used thermal cameras to locate victims
- New device projects thermal image into firefighters’ masks
What’s the most dangerous thing in a fire?
If you think it’s the flames or the heat, that’s understandable: those are dangerous, too. But both from a victim’s and a firefighter’s perspective, the deadliest enemy is smoke.
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