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Fun with Education!

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson talking asteroid physics with a 9 year old at GVSU. The event was sponsored by the Michigan branch of the Center for Inquiry (CFI).

This young boy at only 9 years old shows a young education based mind and what is it is truly capable of when allowed to grow. This exchange encourages and give me hope for the future. 

I also send my positive energy out so that we continue to have such advocates for education such as Dr.Tyson, I suggest you do the same. 

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Reddit user Dtooth0 posted the above photo on the site’s “WTF” thread Tuesday morning, with a caption explaining the picture was of a third-grade lesson on gravity. While the first several questions of the lesson are fairly straightforward, the last few questions clearly have a religious agenda.

In one such part of the lesson, students are told that “people who do not believe in God” cannot explain gravity.

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General relativity, the geometric theory of gravity developed by Albert Einstein in the early 1900's, is today considered one of the twin pillars of modern physics. Along with quantum mechanics, it is fundamental to our understanding of the universe.

Yet despite its importance, general relativity doesn't always get the classroom attention it deserves.

"Is general relativity in the state standards? No. Probably the crowning achievement of science not in the state standards," Dan Burns, a physics teacher at Los Gatos High School in California, says in the video above. But that didn't stop Burns from coming up with an ingenious demonstration to help students understand concepts that are notoriously tricky.