Look Around You: Water

Look Around You on the BBC:

“SCIENCE stands for Super-Corroborative Information on Everything and Nothing in the Cosmos and Earth. That’s a pretty wide-ranging subject, I’m sure you’ll agree!

Ninn = 4

One simple way to think of Science is to imagine it as a giant, spinning roulette wheel whose numbers correspond to the great Scientists (1=Newton, 2=Einstein, 3=Quarnborg, 4=Ninn, and so on. (The ball represents Time.)).

Look Around You is an eight-part series designed to promote the understanding of Science in a simple and concise format. Although aimed at those of school-age, we are sure that many adults will also find it of interest.

The eight weekly modules contain a number of step-by-step experiments performed by qualified, professional scientists. You can follow too – in your school, or in your home laboratory.“

how to make a mountain out of a mole hill

Amateur surveyors just reclassified a hill as a mountain by finding it’s true height was over the 2000 ft limit for the new name– but only by half-a-foot.

“It’s fantastic. Nothing like this had happened before,” said Mr Phillips, from Welshpool, Powys. “We’re very pleased our survey has proved Mynydd Graig Goch is a mountain and not a hill.” (BBC story)

Hate to ruin their fun, but the margin of error was reported to be 9.8 ft, which is within the bounds of the previous measure. I think even Nevile Maskelyne cound have done that.