Articles with Education

Image of a child viewing a teacher in a classroom on their computer screen

Photo by Julia M Cameron from Pexels

Image of statue of Charles Darwin

Statue honoring Charles Darwin at the Natural History Museum, London • Photo by Hulki Okan Tabak on Unsplash

Image of the night sky awash with stars

Photo by Ryan Hutton on Unsplash

Image of a gecko climbing on a pane of glass

Photo by Michaela Kliková on Unsplash

Image of thousands of galaxies in space

The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field image of thousands of galaxies • NASA, ESA

Image of teacher standing in front of classroom full of children

Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash

Image of man directing computer-controlled planetarium show

The new computer-controlled Charles Hayden Planetarium • Photo Credit Museum of Science, Boston © Michael Malyszko 2010

Image of fuzzy kitten

The universe is not always warm and fuzzy • Photo by Kote Puerto on Unsplash

Warm and fuzzy

  • By Chet Raymo
  • In Evolution
  • Posted on

    • Reli­gious fun­da­men­tal­ists in Cal­i­for­nia have mount­ed yet anoth­er attack on the teach­ing of evo­lu­tion in the schools. At issue is a pro­posed statewide text­book guide­line that asserts “Like grav­i­ta­tion and elec­tric­i­ty, evo­lu­tion is a fact and a theory.”

    Image of slide rule

    C. Raymo Sr.'s slide rule • Photo by Tom Raymo

    Image of Richard Feynman

    Richard Feynman in 1959 (Caltech)

    Feynman’s magic

  • By Chet Raymo
  • In Physics
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    • The Feb­ru­ary [1989] issue of Physics Today has been lying around unread for weeks. It is a spe­cial com­mem­o­ra­tive issue on Richard Feyn­man, the Nobel prize-win­ning the­o­ret­i­cal physi­cist who died in 1988 at age 70. I was in no hur­ry to read it. I saved it until I had the time and incli­na­tion for a real bout of nostalgia.