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    Why there are few women scientist in history?

    10/06/2011

    There are plenty of women writing about science, but their names rarely make it onto bookshelves or into the shortlist of the Royal Society's science book prizeI couldn't help being a bit disappointed by the shortlist, announced last week, for the 2011 R ... Read more

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    Edward Tufte

    09/24/2011

    BiographyEdward Rolf Tufte was born in 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Virginia Tufte and Edward E. Tufte. He grew up in Beverly Hills, California, and graduated from Beverly Hills High School. He received a BA and MS in statistics from Stanford Unive ... Read more

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    The Science of your Backyard

    09/22/2011

    Your backyard is a great place for your child to get outside in play.  In addition to swimming and playing outdoor sports, your child can also use your backyard as a science experiment. If you are interested in helping them achieve this, you may want to ... Read more

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    The Simple Way You Can Find Chegg Coupon Codes

    09/20/2011

    As you may already know, Chegg is by far America's largest online new/used text book merchandisers. It gained worldwide acclaim as an online new/used text book store and later add to their product lines to include Autobiography Books, Comic Books, Graphi ... Read more

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    Antique Science Genius Archimedes - Killed by Romans Who Came to Honor Him

    09/17/2011

    Indeed he had, a complicated mathematical solution giving the answer to the question put to him by the King of Syracuse: how to prove whether the goldsmith had added any impurities to the solid gold in his crown. Syracuse and southern Italy have Greek ... Read more

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    Including Science into Your Next Backyard Venture

    09/15/2011

    Your backyard is a great place for your child to get outside in play. In addition to swimming and playing outdoor sports, your child can also use your backyard as a science experiment. If you are interested in helping them achieve this, you may want to f ... Read more

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    Suggested Non-Fiction Reading For Advanced Students

    09/13/2011

    Last year, I worked with a particularly gifted student applying to Hunter College High School (she got in, by the way). She was only 11 years old, but she had a fully adult level of reading comprehension and a desire to tackle interesting, sophisticated, ... Read more

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    Scientific books: Go through these and invent new new stuffs

    09/06/2011

    The concept of science was originated a long time. Nobody can guess when the particular concept came into existence. The world has been experiencing a bunch of highly talented scientists like Albert Einstein, Galileo, etc. If that was the science time, i ... Read more