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California won’t be on the path of the total eclipse, but it will still be an experience: The moon will cover about 57% of the sun’s diameter. There will be multiple showings of a shortened version of the film “Totality!” and the Orange Coast College Chamber Singers will perform at 12:15 p.m. Admission and parking for the event are free.
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California’s largest teachers’ union has moved to put the brakes on legislation that mandates instruction, known as the “science of reading” that spotlights phonics to teach children to read. The move by the politically powerful California Teachers’ Association (CTA) puts the fate of Assembly Bill 2222 in question as supporters insist there is room to negotiate changes that will bring opponents together.
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SP Jain School of Global Management (SP Jain Global) announces the success of its Bachelor of Data Science (BDS) program, with a 100% placement rate for the graduating class of 2023. The program witnessed remarkable success with the highest offered salary reaching AUD 126,200. Noteworthy recruiters include organisations such as Woolworths Group, Greenstone Financials, Rassure, Resonate Solutions, and many others.
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1 year ago Read more at Arizona Education News Service

STEAM eclipse event aims to educate kids on science, technology, engineering, art and math. Experts with NASA came down from Washington DC to share their findings. Director of the Astrophysics at NASA headquarters Dr. Mark Clampin says that conversations can lead to inspiration.
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Library Assistant Kelly March presented her last Citizen Science Saturday Presentation on the Solar Eclipse on Saturday. The Richmond Memorial Library has joined other libraries across the country. In return, SciStarter provided the library with 2,000 solar eclipse glasses and the library then provided several presentations on eye safety.
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1 year ago Read more at Video News Service

Parkinson's is a neurodegenerative condition in which brain cells slowly degenerate and die leading to a progressive deterioration in a person’s ability to control movement. In the UK, around 153,000 people are living with Parkinson's. The world’s first clinical trials are only now underway.
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In 2022, two professors resigned rather than be effectively forced out of the Royal Society of New Zealand for questioning teaching the equal validity of Maori mythology with scientific method. In the UK, “decolonisation” has become a euphemism for “racism” In the 1930s, the Nazis supported attempts to contrive a Deutsche Physik.
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1 year ago Read more at The Critic

The Three-Body Problem is their most ambitious work of 2024. The Martian has been acclaimed as one of the best sci-fi movies of the 21st century. It’s just the tip of the iceberg of over a dozen releases rooted in this genre.
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slimy white mollusc, known as the shipworm, teredo worm, or tamilok in the Philippines, is being grown by researchers at Cambridge and Plymouth universities. it grows by boring its way into wood submerged in seawater, using two small plates on its head.
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1 year ago Read more at The Times

Proof News is reexamining storytelling in journalism and aspires to develop hypotheses, collect data to test them, and even seek a form of peer review before publication. We’re looking forward to sharing these ideas and our stories, in formats new and familiar, for you to enjoy at a comfortable distance.
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1 year ago Read more at Chemical & Engineering News