Category archives: Technology

Prof: Smartphones Make Grammar Lessons Obsolete

A professor of educational technology at England’s Newcastle University thinks that a Ralph Wiggum-esque understanding of the rules of language may be just fine for the next generation of students.  According to Professor Sugata Mitra: Spelling and grammar are “a bit unnecessary because they are skills that were very essential maybe 100 years ago but they are not right now,” Mitra said. “Firstly, my phone corrects my spelling so I […]

Could We Stop an Asteroid?

If you can’t trust Bill Nye the Science Guy, who can you trust? AsapSCIENCE requested Bill Nye’s expertise to determine whether or not stopping an asteroid is possible. Don’t worry - we’re not in an Armageddon or Deep Impact-esque crisis here. (You don’t see Morgan Freeman  sitting in the Oval Office, either.) There’s no imminent threat of asteroid collisions that I’m aware of. In his video on the topic, Nye […]