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Full marks for Nobel Prize winners
One morning Ernest Rutherford, the famous physicist and Nobel Prize winner, got a call from a colleague. A colleague said he was going to give a student a zero on a physics paper when the student claimed he deserved a perfect score. So they decided to find an impartial judge, and Rutherford was chosen. There was only one question on the whole paper, which asked: "How do you use a barometer to determine the height of a building?" The students' answer was: "Take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to the barometer, drop the barometer to the ground, then lift it up and measure the length of the rope, which is the height of the building."
By Wallis Stuart3 years ago in Humans
Beckham: Insist on being the perfect father
David Beckham dreams of flying to the moon one day. Given his immense achievements and ambitions, no one should be surprised to see him wearing an Armani spacesuit, tapping on NASA radar, and sitting on a four-by-four lunar probe piloted by Patrick Moore.
By Wallis Stuart3 years ago in Families
The one-eyed woman reporter in the war zone: Accuse war with life
Character card Mary Colvin, the most senior war correspondent of our time, worked for Britain's Sunday Times. February 22, 2012: Killed in a Syrian government bombardment of Homs city. She lived for reporting and fought for humanity: to live forever under fire.
By Wallis Stuart3 years ago in Humans
