The rise of instant and objective feedback systems in education makes young people anxious to make mistakes, especially in language, because there’s no room for error with machines. William Davies posits that because the powers-that-be insist on pushing education to be more quantifiable, especially post-pandemic, children have no safe space to learn through errors. As they grow older, this makes them even more fearful of messing up because of the consequences that may arise from using the “wrong” words. Read full article here
Science
‘Ghostly’ neutrinos provide new path to study protons
In groundbreaking research, an international collaboration of scientists from the University of Rochester have used a beam of neutrinos to measure the size and shape of the protons that make up the nuclei of atoms. This feat, once thought impossible, provides scientists with a new way of looking at the small components of an atom’s nucleus and opens up a wealth of new information about the structure of an atom’s nucleus and the dynamics of the forces that affect neutrino interactions. The researchers solved the challenge of harnessing neutrinos in large numbers by using a neutrino detector containing a target of both hydrogen and carbon atoms, and over nine years of data collection at Fermilab’s accelerator. Read full article here
Merv
March 25, 2023
