tingilinde

the $40k scholarship

What Verda Tetteh did when she won it.

Every year some graduation story emerges - usually an inspiring speech.  This one is remarkable.

 

new doctors on the front lines

Newly graduated doctors pressed into service during the worst days of the pandemic

it's going on in many other parts of the world at the moment..

 

 

there are some good kids in texas

Paxton Smith graduating from Lake Highland High School.  (watch the embedded video starting around 4:30)

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She’s an outgoing person by nature, but knowing what sort of reaction her remarks might spark filled Smith with trepidation leading up to Sunday. She practiced the speech again and again, to the point that she didn’t need to think about the words. On Sunday, as she climbed the stairs to the stage, her mind went blank.

At the lectern, with a shaky voice, she began by thanking one of her coaches. Then she pulled from her bra a single piece of paper, folded in quarters, and told people what was on her mind. Her voice grew stronger with each sentence. At the end of her three minutes, she was in full command of that stage.

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a tip of the hat to Linda

 

 

 

 

that critical learning period in childhood

It probably doesn't exist. 

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Yet a new study by Laura Wesseldijk of Vrije University Amsterdam and her colleagues challenges this view: It explores the possibility that environmental and familial factors are the driving forces behind the success of “early starters.” Such individuals may have an edge not because they learn in a developmentally unique period but because they inherit talent, have access to instruments and instruction, or get a head start on practice. So it is possible that starting late might not prevent you from becoming great.

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nice rough visualization of isolated hydrogen atoms..

how your body tells time

An illustrated comic  by scientists who study this - for ages 13 and up.

 

 

republicans and history

They want kids to learn fairy tales rather than real American and World history - from historian Heather Cox Richardson.

 

 

 

cameras and lenses

Another dramatic amount of work explaining how cameras work

 

if you're looking to explain ic engines

The amount of effort this guy must have put in is impressive.

 

numberphile on fluids

Numberphile often gives intuitive tastes of math and related subjects that often require serious work in college.  Here's a fine three part series featuring Tom Crawford of Oxford.   A nice example of equation → approximation → real world example (with more approximations) 

 

The Navier-Stokes Equation

The Reynolds Number



River Water