CONSTRUCTION OF THE N.S. SAVANNAH (NSS) BEGAN WITH A CEREMONY ON MARITIME DAY IN 1958.
MAMIE EISENHOWER CHRISTENED THE SHIP IN 1959 AND BY EARLY 1962 THE SHIP WAS AT SEA.

By 1970, the NSS achieved its objectives and the project ended. Savannah sailed 454,675 miles on 163 pounds of uranium; if it had been oil-fired, Savannah would have burned nearly 29 million gallons of fuel.

Just shows how amazing nuclear energy can be and a viable source of energy to replace fossil fuels

What is Science?

People talk glibbery about science. What is science? People are coming out of university with a masters degree or a PHD. You take them into the field, they literally don’t believe anything unless it’s a peer reviewed paper. That’s the only thing they accept. And you say to them; let’s observe, let’s think, let’s discuss. they don’t do it. Only when it is in a peer-review paper or not. That’s their view of science. I think that’s pathetic. Gone in to universities as bright young people, they come out of it brain dead, not even knowing what science means. They think it means peer-review papers etc. No! That’s academia. and if a paper is peer-reviewed it means everybody thought the same therefore they approved it. An unintended consequence is when new knowledge emerges, new scientific insights, they can never ever be peer-reviewed so we’re blocking all new advances in science that are big advances. If you look at the breakthrough in science, almost always they don’t come from the center of that profession. They come from the fringe. The finest candlemakers in the world couldn’t even think of electric lights. They don’t come from within they often come from outside the bricks.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/parenting-education/record-number-of-polytechnic-grads-18-of-them-admitted-to-nus-medicine-this-year#:~:text=SINGAPORE%20%2D%20A%20record%20number%20of,for%20the%20last%20three%20years.

This goes to show that junior colleges are not necessarily superior to polytechnics nowadays. There is a greater acceptance that polytechnic is also a viable path for top students as well. I have numerous thoughts on polytechnic vs junior college debate, but they are too long to put in 1 post. End of the day, I think it comes down to learning style. Junior college is essentially secondary school on steroids, so if you find academia acceptable, JC will be preferable, but if you are more of a hands on/ learn by doing/ already found your passion, polytechnic might be a more suitable path for you.

But definitely, for now, it still seems that it is probabilistic more likely to enter university through junior college path than polytechnic. If you would like advice, feel free to contact me as I think it is pretty important and will be glad to help advice with no strings attached.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/a-man-had-severe-day-long-migraines-for-12-years-and-nothing-worked-his-doctors-say-they-vanished-after-they-prescribed-leafy-greens-and-cutting-out-red-meat/ar-AAQSkXg

This is pretty fascinating, this is why i like to share out of the 3 sciences: physics, chemistry and biology. Biology is interesting in the sense that there are always diversity and variations. No one organism is the same and all responds differently to the same stimulus.

This is a brilliant thread on TWITTER giving a layman explanation on how the new mRNA vaccine works. Do check it out.

The jobs in the future will be very different from the jobs now.  Mathematics and data science can be a big part of everyday life in future.

https://www.thisisinsider.com/how-jerry-marge-selbee-won-the-lottery-2019-1

image from CBS News

why it might pay off to major in Math and actually learn something in the process 🙂

Relevant Snippets

In 2003, Jerry made a run to their old store and saw a brochure for a new lottery game called Winfall. Jerry, who majored in math in college, told “60 Minutes” he realized within just minutes that he could almost guarantee making a profit.

He explained this was because the winnings rolled down every time the jackpot reached a cap of $5 million. Unlike lottery games like Mega Millions, where the jackpot keeps growing until someone matches every single number, with Winfall, if the jackpot reached $5 million and no one drew a ticket with all six winning numbers, people with tickets that had five, four, and three winning numbers could cash in.

The Selbees said that over the nine years they played Winfall, their group won a total of $26 million and they made about $8 million in profit before taxes.

This is awesome!

It’s a good tradition to celebrate the importance of education and good way to get children to look forward to school 🙂 probably see if I can implement the idea for tuition.

https://www.babble.com/parenting/celebration-first-day-of-school-in-germany/

IMAGE SOURCE: THINKSTOCK

The Chemistry and Physics Crash Course was successfully concluded over the June Holiday.

I believed everyone understood better how to approach the 2 subjects and had help with kickstarting their revision for O levels.

A different approach during the crash course was used to tackle the 2 subjects which I am sure helped them better make sense of and consolidate the huge amount of information and content found in the 2 subjects.