Sandcastle Engineering: A Geotechnical Engineer Explains How Water, Air and Sand Create Solid Structures

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. If you want to understand why some sandcastles are tall and have intricate structures while others are nearly shapeless lumps of sand, it helps to have a background in geotechnical engineering. As a geotechnical engineering educator myself, I use sandcastles… Continue reading Sandcastle Engineering: A Geotechnical Engineer Explains How Water, Air and Sand Create Solid Structures

Culling Of Spanish ‘Zombies’ Sends European Bankruptcies Soaring To 8-Year-Highs

Q4 2022 saw European businesses filing for bankruptcy at the fastest pace in at least eight years The number of bankruptcy declarations increased during all four quarters of 2022. As The FT reports, there was a particularly sharp increase in Spanish bankruptcy filings, which more than doubled in the second half of last year after… Continue reading Culling Of Spanish ‘Zombies’ Sends European Bankruptcies Soaring To 8-Year-Highs

Astronomers Reveal New Details of How Stars Devour Planets

Astronomers have been witnessing the ends of worlds for millennia. Even in antiquity, sky watchers noted the rare star suddenly bursting into brightness and then fading away over months or years. These outbursts are supernovae, explosive stellar deaths that can also annihilate a star’s accompanying planets. Today modern researchers can see black holes shredding entire… Continue reading Astronomers Reveal New Details of How Stars Devour Planets

Keeping Teachers of Color in the Classroom Will Take More Than a Pay Raise

The U.S. teaching workforce is far less racially diverse than its student body. All students (PDF)—but particularly Black and Latinx students—benefit academically and socially from having teachers who are people of color. And yet, such educators leave the profession (PDF) at higher rates than their White colleagues. So what can be done to get more… Continue reading Keeping Teachers of Color in the Classroom Will Take More Than a Pay Raise

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The Best Thing That Ever Happened

Suppose someone asked you, “What’s the worst thing that ever happened in all of history?” There’s no shortage of potential answers. You might say, “the Holocaust“ or “World War II.“ If you consider the question from the Christian perspective, you’d probably agree, right away, that the worst thing that ever happened was the Passion and… Continue reading The Best Thing That Ever Happened

‘ISIS Bride’ Shamima Begum Bid To Restore British Citizenship Rejected

Authored by Patricia Devlin via The Epoch Times, Shamima Begum failed in a last-ditch legal bid to have her British citizenship restored. On Wednesday, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) fully dismissed the 23-year-old’s legal challenge against a Home Office decision to revoke her status as a UK citizen. It means Begum—who travelled from her London home to join… Continue reading ‘ISIS Bride’ Shamima Begum Bid To Restore British Citizenship Rejected

Giants! (Biblical Giants, Goliath, Nephilim, Tallest Man Ever, Robert Wadlow)

Podcast: Download MYS243: Giants have been part of history and mythology all over the world. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what giants are, how big humans can get, what’s responsible for giants, and the report of giant people in legends and the Bible. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email… Continue reading Giants! (Biblical Giants, Goliath, Nephilim, Tallest Man Ever, Robert Wadlow)

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