http://www.ryot.org/math-question-is-stumping-the-internet/934258
Now, there is a new math problem sweeping the Internet. The question, according to Mashable, appeared on the GCSE exam in the UK, which is taken by students in secondary schools. An estimated 500,000 took the test. The question is so confusing that over 5,000 people have signed a petition to allow students to re-sit for the entire exam.
Think you can solve it? Here’s the question:
There are n sweets in a bag. Six of the sweets are orange. The rest of the sweets are yellow. Hannah takes a random sweet from the bag. She eats the sweet. Hannah then takes at random another sweet from the bag. She eats the sweet. The probability that Hannah eats two orange sweets is 1/3. Show that n²-n-90=0.
http://community.malala.org/canadian-girl-makes-graduation-dres-1181224427.html
Girl makes graduation dress from her pre-calculus notes.
http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/75563/
The US Air Force has destroyed an Islamic State nerve centre after extremists revealed its location in a selfie.
General Herbert 'Hawk' Carlisle, head of Air Combat Command, said a ISIS "moron" shared a picture which allowed intelligence analysts to pinpoint his whereabouts.
Just 22 hours later, the Air Force blasted the building with three missiles.
More:
http://defensetech.org/2015/06/03/us-air-force-targets-and-destroys-isis-hq-building-using-social-media/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/american-airstrike-obliterates-isis-stronghold-5821711
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid
"I have intentionally adjusted my teaching materials as the political winds have shifted. (I also make sure all my remotely offensive or challenging opinions, such as this article, are expressed either anonymously or pseudonymously). Most of my colleagues who still have jobs have done the same. We've seen bad things happen to too many good teachers — adjuncts getting axed because their evaluations dipped below a 3.0, grad students being removed from classes after a single student complaint, and so on.
I once saw an adjunct not get his contract renewed after students complained that he exposed them to "offensive" texts written by Edward Said and Mark Twain. His response, that the texts were meant to be a little upsetting, only fueled the students' ire and sealed his fate. That was enough to get me to comb through my syllabi and cut out anything I could see upsetting a coddled undergrad, texts ranging from Upton Sinclair to Maureen Tkacik — and I wasn't the only one who made adjustments, either."
More:
http://www.yaf.org/slu-cultural-sensitivity.aspx
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/27/saint-louis-university-removes-racist-statue-of-pr/
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Opinion/2015/06/04/Why-College-Professors-Are-Afraid-Teach-Millennials