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Testing the theory: taking Einstein to primary schools

By David Blair, University of Western Australia

School students today are taught physics based on obsolete theories and outmoded ways of thinking. Instead of the truth, most learn a naive simplification – the 300 year-old Newtonian physics, itself based…

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Moving tougher on poor children

Cornell University

Children who move frequently while young are more likely to have behavioural problems – but only if they’re from low income…

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