White dwarfs — the last stage in the life of stars less than eight times the mass of our Sun — operate a little differently from most stars; the smaller they are, the more mass they have. When a stellar pair become white dwarfs together, they have two possible futures; if they’re massive enough, they die together in a supernova. If they’re not, they merge into a white dwarf much more massive than they were, teetering on the edge of collapse from all of their mass.
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Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
