Education

A UK university has been prosecuted for administrating a lethal dose of caffeine to two students during a scientific experiment that went wrong. The university in northern England has been fined £400,000 for endangering the lives of two students, by giving them 100 times the recommended dosage of caffeine, the equivalent of drinking 300 cups of coffee in one go. RT.com reports: An ill-placed decimal point on a mobile phone being used to calculate the caffeine dosage led to the sports science students at Northumbria University being given 30g of caffeine instead of 0.3g.

In Georgetown, South Carolina, playing a high school prank on the teacher could land you in jail. An Andrews high school student faces 30 days jail time for hitting his teacher in the eye with a paper airplane during class. South Strand News reports: On Tuesday, Jan. 10, Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested 17-year-old David Michael Elliott after his instructor, Edward McIver, told them he was struck in the eye by a paper airplane he threw during class. He was charged with third-degree assault and battery.

A South Carolina High School student is facing 30 days in jail after allegedly throwing a paper airplane that struck a teacher in the eye. The seventeen year old student is now learning the hard way about the repercussions of a silly prank… he was charged with third-degree assault and battery. Free Thought Project reports: Earlier this month, Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested 17-year-old David Michael Elliott after his instructor, Edward McIver, told the school resource officer that he wanted to press charges for an assault with a paper airplane.

Ever since 2012 we have warned that one of the biggest threats arising from the US student loan bubble - which is no longer disputed by anyone except perhaps members of the outgoing administration - is not that it is soaring at an unprecedented pace, that's obvious for anyone with the latest loan total number over $1.4 trillion, rising at a pace of nearly $100 billion per year, but that the government - either on purpose or due to honest miscalculation - was not correctly accounting for the true extent of delinquencies and defaults.

Darwin’s evolution theory will be removed from Turkish biology textbooks in high schools starting next year. The Minister of National Education for the Islamic rooted Turkish government, Ismet Yılmaz, announced a new curriculum for the 2017-2018 school academic year. Yilmaz said that Darwin’s findings are “just a theory”: “Darwin’s work is based only on theory. In fact, this is the same as a Big Bang theory in physics.