Month: April 2016
Herbal life: traditional medicine gets a modern twist in Iran
Iranians have long used traditional remedies to cure all kinds of ailments – pennyroyal to soothe, chicory to purify, marjoram to lift the spirits. But a rapid recent growth in traditional medicine has led to problems with regulation Shahla pulls her wheeled suitcase behind her over the cobblestone streets of Istanbul. Inside are herbs and […]
Teen gets accepted by all eight Ivy League schools
(CNN)There must be something in the water at Elmont Memorial High School. For the second year in a row, an Elmont Memorial High School student has been accepted to all eight Ivy League schools. Last year, the Long Island high school’s salutatorian Harold Ekeh chose to attend Yale University after having his pick of all […]
Genius by numbers: why Hollywood maths movies don’t add up
From A Beautiful Mind to The Theory of Everything and The Man Who Knew Infinity, Hollywood loves a mathematician. So why cant it get beyond the fevered prodigy scribbling equations on windows? In the Tina Fey sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, wealthy Manhattanite Jacqueline Vorhees wails to her assistant that she cant afford to get divorced. […]