If our students can't parse a paragraph, if they can't solve their math equations, if they don't understand their science formulas they will not succeed in today's highly competitive, increasingly global knowledge-based economy.
To help determine what pages were important in the world wide web, they used a modified network science formula (eigenvector centrality) and called it PageRank.
Contrary to the show's usual "always get their guy through science" formula, as Loudenberg put it, this episode featured a subject's false confession.
I later became a paid consultant and have collaborated on the science of certain formulas and speak on nutritional medicine for the company.
Both use the tried-and-tested pop-science formula of recounting the formation of the elements and interweaving the story of how their stellar origins were pieced together.
I've learned that it's not some revolutionary, rocket-science formula, but if you fill up on fruits and vegetables and add in lean meats and pasta and starches, you're going to fill up faster.
It includes a handy appendix summarizing the few formulas and basic science concepts needed, and its small size and French-fold design make it conveniently portable.
That night, the presentation was on emulsions and foams, and David Weitz, a physics professor, took us through the formulas and the science behind the topic using terms like "dispersed phase" and "surfactant".
