[Assam] Fwd: MIT Scientists Solve Mystery of Oil's Beating Heart

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umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote: Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:02:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>
Subject:  MIT Scientists Solve Mystery of Oil's Beating Heart
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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:28:57 -0400

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   MIT Scientists Solve Mystery of Oils Beating Heart  
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  MIT Scientists Solve Mystery of Oils Beating Heart
  Do you have 10 minutes or so, a plate, a dropper, a clear cover or lid, water, mineral oil, and detergent? Then you have time for a great science lesson. Put the water on the plate and let it settle. Then mix a small amount of mineral oil and an even smaller  amount of detergent. Squeeze a tiny drop of the mixture into the waiting water, and watch the oil beat just like a heart.
  This phenomenon has long stumped the scientific community. Now, scientists think that the answer could have applications in environmental engineering and biology. For more details (including the solution to why the oil behaves as it does) click here for the full story from Science Daily.
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  National Town Hall Meeting Focuses on Math and Science Education
  U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, ExxonMobil, pro-golfer Phil Mickelson and his wife Amy, the National Science Teachers Association, and Math Solutions will be conducting an hour-long National Town Hall Meeting on July 23 at noon to discuss the current state of math and science  education in the United States. The meeting will be held at the 2007 Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy. 
  The Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy, established by ExxonMobil, Phil and Amy Mickelson, the National Science Teachers Association, and Math Solutions brings together 200 third- through fifth-grade teachers from across the country. The five-day session equips teachers with innovative methods for teaching science and mathematics to students. From egg drops to pendulums, teachers will be learning new ways to excite and inspire students about math and science.
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  Student Passivity Strikes a Nerve with JCST Readership
  A recent editorial in the Journal of College Science Teaching sparked an unprecedented response (http://www.nsta.org/college/200705responses.aspx) from readers across the country. 
  The author, JCST Field Editor Dr. Ann Cutler, reports a troubling decline in the active participation and apparent engagement of freshmen in her college courses. In Creeping Passivity in the May 2007 issue, she postulates that this trend may be due in part to a shift in responsibility for learning in middle and secondary schools because of No Child Left Behind legislation. 
  After reading the editorial and readers' responses, please share your views through our online discussion forum.
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  Registration Open for NTEN Fall Semester
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  Homer Hickam to Give Keynote Address in Denver
  Join us for a memorable occasion as Homer Hickam presents Lighthouses, Rocket  Ships, and Dreams Come True at the NSTA Denver Conference on Science Education (Nov. 810). Hickams inspirational and compelling memoir, Rocket Boys, focuses on growing up in the hard-working town of Coalwood, West Virginia. Hickam and his boyhood friends built and launched their own sophisticated rockets, and he came to embody both the towns tensions and its dreams. Hickam later became a NASA engineer and is now an amateur paleontologist.
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