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UC Berkeley Math Professor Raises Alarm Over Student Preparedness
A UC Berkeley mathematics professor says she is spending valuable calculus teaching time on material some students should have mastered years earlier. Her claim has reignited a fierce debate over what elite universities should expect from incoming students. Zvezdelina Stankova says some students arriving in her calculus classes are five to eight years behind in…
Mom Finds A Genius Way To Help Her Nonverbal Son Talk When Technology Fails
When 11-year-old Hunter’s communication device suddenly died during a meal, his mother Jessica Fletcher was left facing a problem that could have brought their conversation to an abrupt stop. Hunter is nonverbal and uses an Augmentative and Alternative Communication device to select words and symbols, but the technology was suddenly useless when its battery ran…
Scientists Say Earth Could Eventually Have Just 4 Billion People
What if the biggest environmental solution on Earth had nothing to do with electric cars, solar panels or recycling, but with the number of people living on the planet? A new paper from 11 researchers across 10 countries has proposed a future global population of roughly 4 billion people by 2200, less than half the…
Scientists Warn Modern Life May Be Overloading The Human Brain
The train doors close and within seconds, phones appear across the carriage. One commuter checks a message, another scrolls through a video, someone reads a breaking-news alert while another watches a stranger’s carefully edited holiday unfold on a screen. In the space of a single journey, the human brain can be exposed to war, celebrity…
Finnish Man Builds Solar Yacht That Travels Thousands Of Miles Without Fuel
A homemade yacht built in a Finnish forest has now travelled more than 3,000 nautical miles without buying a single litre of fuel. Lukas Sjoman spent around $20,000 building the 11-meter Helios 11, using marine plywood, glass fibre and ordinary residential solar panels. Then he pointed the boat south and put the idea to a…
Missing Man Found Trapped Inside Metro Station Six Days After His Family Thought He Was Dead
Rashawn Williams walked out of a Maryland hotel one Friday evening in October 2023 and vanished without a phone or identification. The 31-year-old, who is nonverbal and requires round-the-clock supervision, had simply signaled that he needed to use the bathroom while staying at a Residence Inn in Silver Spring. His caregiver went to find a…
Hayden Panettiere Found Unresponsive At 36 As Officials Investigate Sudden Death
Hayden Panettiere has died at just 36 years old, leaving fans and the entertainment industry stunned by the sudden loss of an actress who had spent most of her life in the public eye. The former child star, best known for Heroes and Nashville, was found unresponsive at a residence in Greenville, South Carolina, on…
People Keep Eating This Mushroom, Then They Start Seeing Tiny People
A mushroom that looks ordinary enough to end up on a dinner plate is responsible for one of the strangest recurring medical complaints in parts of China. During mushroom season, hospitals in Yunnan Province see hundreds of people who arrive feeling dizzy or disoriented, only to describe something far more unusual: tiny human-like figures apparently…
The Hidden Health Risk Facing California Quartz Countertop Workers
A kitchen upgrade that has become a fixture in modern homes is at the center of a growing health crisis in California. Workers who cut and polish engineered stone countertops are developing a severe lung disease that can permanently damage their ability to breathe. The number of reported cases has risen sharply in recent years,…
12 Year Old Dancer Takes Her First Steps After A Rare Spinal Stroke
Morgan Lopez was just 12 when a routine dance practice turned into a medical emergency that left her unable to walk. Within hours, her family was facing the possibility that their daughter might never move normally again. Three months later, Morgan walked out of rehabilitation on her own. The California dancer is still undergoing treatment,…