Nasa has just “bombed” the Moon with two artificial meteorites in an attempt to see whether there is lunar water. This happened in the early hours of Saturday 10 October our time. Read about it here.
It looks like this venture has failed. What they were trying to do was created a huge plume of debris for analysis, but the impact was insufficient, according to this article.
ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY. HE SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT.
ARE YOU IN THE TOP 2% OF INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD? SOLVE THE RIDDLE AND FIND OUT.
There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don’t give up.
1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?
HINTS
1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.
Element number 112 has just been discovered. See here for details. At the bottom of the webpage there is an opportunity for you to help name this new element. Have a go, please. Email me your ideas as well - each valid idea with a reasonable explanation wins one point.
Which letter of the alphabet is used nowhere in the periodic table???
Well done guys. Look at the email that came in today:
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Hi Hilary.
Just to let you know that Katikati College has been awarded one of two major prizes in our annual March Monitoring Month and Koura Kraze competition. Thanks to the commitment of your students (in particular those fantastic students of yours Courtney, Morgan and Savana) and of course yourself you have won $500 dollars worth of monitoring equipment for your school. This year it includes a dissolved oxygen kit worth $250.
A letter to your principal advising you of the results of the competition and the prizes are on its way to you shortly. A media release is been prepared and should also be sent out shortly.
You have also been acknowledged as Most Enthusiastic Teacher involved in March Monitoring Month. This is well deserved! I small prize will be given to you.
Thanks again for the huge effort your school goes to which again helped make our event such a success!
Sorry, guys, there has not been much to add in this difficult week. However, I’d like to share with you a really interesting mathematical probability problem brought to my attention by Caleb in my Year 12 Chemistry class. Click here to watch. Watch it a couple of times, please - it’s quite hard to get your head around.
Year 9 students might like to try to prove/disprove this problem for Science Fair. Try using shoe boxes instead of doors, and no goats please…
Thanks, Caleb, we all had a really interesting experience, though I know a number of us are still contemplating this.
If you would like to see our data contribution, and those of others, click here.
Sorry this has taken me so long. Here you are, specifically a hen-pecked Sam. Go Sam!
