Continued from Part 1, Why Not Try A Scientific Approach To Science Education?

In a traditional science class, the teacher stands at the front of the class lecturing to a largely passive group of students. Those students then go off and do back-of-the-chapter homework problems from the textbook and take exams that are similar to those exercises.

HOUSTON, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

Platts, a leading global energy information provider, today confirmed it will launch a major new crude oil price assessment to capture the representative value of crude oil in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, the main hub for refining, production, importing and handling of crude oil in the United States. Platts' decision to begin publishing the new price assessment follows a period of extensive consultation with oil market participants.

LONDON and NEW YORK, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Solution Addresses Instrument Level and Counterparty Transparency; Feeds Into Risk and Trading Applications

GoldenSource Corporation, a global software provider of enterprise data management (EDM) solutions for financial and securities institutions worldwide, today launched a new data solution, GoldenSource for Derivatives, to help financial institutions accurately value portfolios and manage risk for derivatives products. A preconfigured solution for risk management, GoldenSource for Derivatives allows for a 360 degree view of instrument, issuer and counterparty exposure, creating a local CDS warehouse capability.

HOUSTON, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

With a group of friends, classmates or co-workers, offer to auction a $20 bill. One more rule: both of the top two bidders must pay their final bid.

Imagine that person A and person B are foolish enough to join your auction, with person A bidding $0.25 and person B overbidding to the tune of $0.30. Obviously this should escalate—who wouldn’t bid $7 to earn $20, especially if this could keep you from losing money you previously bid?

LONDON, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Ideaworks3D Ltd, developer of the cross-platform Airplay(TM) SDK for advanced native mobile games and applications, today announced that CRI Middleware have ported their Sofdec advanced video streaming technology to Airplay, and thus to a wide range of smartphone platforms.

Airplay is a unique cross-platform technology for creating best-in-class native applications on mobile and handheld devices, enabling developers to build a single application binary and deploy it unmodified to all supported operating systems and devices.

ZURICH, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- BT inmo Chooses Qnective Inc

Qnective Inc., a U.S. public company, headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, can post one of its first significant triumphs. BT inmo, a wholly owned subsidiary of BT Telecommunications Plc, has purchased a licence for global sales of mobile VoIP solutions from Qnective.

The Qtalk product family forms the basis for secure, cost-optimised mobile services which BT inmo is developing for BT Global Services.

Qnective is specialised in the development of VoIP (Voice over IP) voice and data solutions for mobile communication. The Qnective solutions are specially designed for operators and business clients.

Licensing agreement with BT inmo

MILAN, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Mirial, an Italian provider of products and solutions for audio/video communication over convergent networks, today announced the appointment of Brice Drogosch as Vice President Sales, America.

Being a veteran in the visual communication industry, Drogosch brings a strong expertise in the company's market to his new role, along with global sales and marketing skills developed in former positions.

In Mirial he will be managing sales for the company's line of video conferencing and visual communication products within North and South America, reporting directly to the company's CEO.

LONDON, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Teacher understanding of Apprenticeships must radically improve for the Government programme to achieve its full potential, according to new research by independent education foundation, Edge.

Coming ahead of the report of the Skills Commission's six-month inquiry into Apprenticeships, Edge's findings reveal that more than half (56 per cent) of the teachers surveyed rate their knowledge of Apprenticeships as poor - a real concern given young people rely on teachers for informed and impartial careers advice. By contrast, only one in twelve of teachers (8 per cent) say they have a poor understanding of university degrees.

LONDON, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Millions of people already take a statin to lower their cholesterol and millions more are about to be prescribed these drugs under current guidelines. However, a new book provides substantial evidence to show that most people do not need to lower their cholesterol.

Using official statistics and references from medical literature, the author makes a strong case against the mass prescription of cholesterol-lowering drugs. The key findings in the book are: