The Amazon rainforest stores carbon dioxide (CO2) deep within its trees and flora, but due to deforestation and forest fires, it’s now releasing a cocktail of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Aside from CO2, the rainforest also keeps methane and nitrous oxide levels in check, but while the latter two gases don’t linger as long as CO2, they are more potent and dangerous; for example, nitrous oxide traps 300 times more heat than CO2. Read full article here
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
