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Shape-shifting sheets

Mathematical framework turns any sheet of material into any shape using kirigami cuts. Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a mathematical framework that can turn any sheet of material into any prescribed shape, inspired by the paper craft kirigami (from the Japanese, kiri, meaning to

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Forskare vill nyansera bilden om tre terminer

Tre terminer och kortare sommarlov. Det är modellen för Amerikanska gymnasiet i Göteborg. Enligt rektorn finns det över 50 studier som stödjer deras inriktning. Men enligt professor Christian Lundahl finns det få studier som jämfört två- och treterminssystem. Däremot stödjer flera studier att det finns negativa effekter med ett långt sommarlov. Läs vidare [Svt]

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Where teachers thrive: Organizing school for success

Bokrecension Susan Moore Johnson has spent a lifetime studying teachers in their workplaces. In her new book, Where Teachers Thrive: Organizing Schools for Success, she helps us understand more about how context matters. To emphasize the central importance of the environment of schools for teachers, when the research team “compared schools demographically similar, we found

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Study shows we like our math like we like our art: Beautiful

A beautiful landscape painting, a beautiful piano sonata — art and music are almost exclusively described in terms of aesthetics, but what about math? Beyond useful or brilliant, can an abstract idea be considered beautiful? Yes, actually — and not just by mathematicians, reports a new study in Cognition. Läs mer [EurekAlert!]

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