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The mystery deepens… neutrinos can shift from muon neutrinos to tau neutrinos (or change form)… Slashdot Science Story | Chameleon-Like Behavior of Neutrino Confirmed: “While closing a chapter on understanding the nature of neutrinos, the observation of neutrino oscillations is strong evidence for new physics. The Standard Model of fundamental particles posits no mass for [...]

Just to let you in on a little secret, here’s why I think grades are overrated in education… Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution | Magazine: “Both of us cite research from University of Rochester psychologist Edward Deci showing that if you give people a contingent reward—as in ‘if you do this, then you’ll get [...]

Thanks to Evan for the link (make sure to watch the Carl Sagan video from Cosmos below)… Cosmonaut Sergi Avdeyev: By the time his stint in space was over, he had experienced 0.2 seconds less than the rest of the world did. This made him 0.2 seconds younger than he would have been if he [...]

Thanks to Lizzie for the link… Squirrel makes Target Field history with park’s first wildlife delay – Big League Stew – MLB  – Yahoo! Sports: “Not that the little fella didn’t do his (or her) best to get a great reception during Alex Rodriguez’s(notes) at-bat. You could almost see a heart beating through a huffing [...]

Here is our exam (well, one of the 10 versions) if you ever need reference… GriffinScience Spring Exam “ I’m very pleased with how most of you performed!

Remember, science never stops improving itself. Here’s a great example of new findings improving on the data and info first provided by Einstein’s investigations into Brownian Motion… Brownian motion moves beyond Einstein’s equations: “There are nuances to particle movement and energy at tiny scales that one of Einstein’s equations did not capture, according to a [...]

Amazing. Reflect on this next year as you enter into your studies of biology! What are the ethical implications?

We touched on this when discussing photons in the last quarter of the year… Quantum teleportation achieved over 16 km: “Scientists in China have succeeded in teleporting information between photons further than ever before. They transported quantum information over a free space distance of 16 km (10 miles), much further than the few hundred meters [...]

Here is the link to the slideshow video: http://vimeo.com/11915318 Email me for the password if you don’t have it yet. (I was going to make the password “BEAST” but didn’t want to rub it in too much.) Thanks again for being an amazing group of young people. You will be missed but you will also [...]

I’ll be sending out the link to the slide show from tonight’s graduation tomorrow. I’m also burning DVD’s of the slide show this weekend, so I’ll have a bunch of copies for you all then. I also have a long and emotional post that I’m just too exhausted to post tonight. I literally cried the [...]