How a 27-Year Veteran Teacher Stopped Lecturing & Helped 80 Students Get Closer to Govt Jobs
A wire, a tool and a room full of trainees are familiar sights for Kester Dason. But ask him what happens when the same students have to sit through a theory lesson, and the picture changes. After nearly 27 years in industrial training, Kester has learnt to notice the difference. Many of the wireman trainees […]
Cheating is not the problem–it’s a solution (in a zero-sum educational system)
This post originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. In a TED Talk viewed over 2 million times, Efosa Ojomo of the Christensen Institute made the provocative case that corruption isn’t the problem holding poor countries back. Corruption is the solution for people in poor countries to make progress when facing scarcity around basic needs like food, education, […]
Strong El Niño may shape India’s coming seasons, warmer Indian Ocean could amplify extremes: Scientists | Pune News
Pune: A powerful El Niño developing over Pacific and expected to intensify further could significantly influence India’s weather in the coming months, affecting the northeast monsoon, winter conditions and the Oct-Dec cyclone season, scientists warned on Wednesday.According to them, the impacts are unlikely to follow the traditional El Niño playbook of drought alone, with a […]
Why do we make noises like ‘oof’ when we lift something or bump into furniture?
Weightlifters sometimes grunt or exhale deliberately as part of contracting muscles around the trunk. | Photo Credit: Victor Freitas/Unsplash A: When you physically exert while doing a task, you may also briefly hold your breath, releasing it as the effort eases. Your body may also contract the muscles around the trunk, making the torso more […]
Subatomic ambitions take five Indian school students to CERN
A group of Indian school students are among the five winning teams of the 13th edition of the ‘Beamline for Schools’ competition, a physics competition for high school students from all around the world organised by CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in Geneva. The Indian team, named “attoPION”, comprises Nenavath Abhay Vivek, Sidhartha […]
After great apes, scientists find African elephants self-medicate too
Elephants were found to travel long distances to get to a particular tree without foraging on the way. Their single-minded mission was to consume the bark or leaves. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Wild animals have for long been known for their intuitive pharmacological knowledge: orangutans balm their wounds with plants; chimpanzees consume bitter antibacterial […]
India’s river interlinks may carry invasive species farther
The National River-Linking Project is the world’s most ambitious project of its kind to date, proposing to link 37 major river basins across India using 30 links, potentially redistributing around 174 billion cubic metres of water from ‘surplus’ to ‘deficit’ basins while generating some 34,000 MW of power. Yet the Project has also raised serious […]
MeitY IndiaAI Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence to be launched on Wednesday
Representational image | Photo Credit: Getty Images Minister for Industries, IT and AI P.K. Kunhalikutty will formally launch MeitY IndiaAI Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Thiruvananthapuram, Keralam (CAIK), on Wednesday (September 30). The centre is being established under the IndiaAI Mission of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and the Department of Electronics […]
Bihar and Google Collaborate to Enhance AI Education for Teachers, ETEducation
Pact signed to boost AI-enabled teaching Patna: Bihar’s department of science, technology and technical education (DSTTE) and Google LLC signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) to collaborate on AI enablement and digital infrastructure, aiming to strengthen digital transformation and AI-enabled teaching capabilities across the state’s education sector. The agreement is intended to promote AI literacy […]
Highly educated professionals are vulnerable to financial cybercrime, finds IIT-Madras study
The study found that high digital literacy does not necessarily protect individuals from cyber fraud. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A study led by researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras) has found that financial cybercrime victims in India are often highly educated professionals, challenging the perception that victims are primarily careless, financially […]