
No contrails, but blue sky and bright sunshine. Spring 2020 brought lots of good weather – but also curfews and travel bans. Instead of spending Easter at the beach or visiting grandma and grandpa, staycation was the order of the…
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No contrails, but blue sky and bright sunshine. Spring 2020 brought lots of good weather – but also curfews and travel bans. Instead of spending Easter at the beach or visiting grandma and grandpa, staycation was the order of the…
The best case and the worst case testing scenarios are extremely rare in a real setting. You could explore real case situations by means of a dynamic geometry simulation (see simulation link above). Let N be the number of inhabitans,…
Testing large quantities of blood samples to detect one or more positive sample(s) of a virus disease is expensive and time consuming. What if we decide to make pools of samples to optimise the process? How do we do it?…
Will eating chocolate make me gain weight? Use the knowledge that you already possess to attempt to answer this question. Be ready to discuss and present arguments for and against this statement. This is what Jane and Paul had to…
According to World Health Organization (WHO), more than seven million people die every year due to air pollution. Air pollutants arise from a wide variety of natural processes (e.g. forest fires, volcanoes, and bacteria) and human activities (use of motor…
All humans have the capacity to pause, listen and recognize the diversity and quality of sound in any given space. Through more active listening, each of us can find a different connection to the environments we inhabit1. Restrictions due to…
Plastic waste, environmental pollution, a virus, that keeps the whole world in suspense – isn’t there one good thing left on earth? Can we create something good out of all this? In Greece, many schools, organizations and municipalities collect…
Whether with your neighbour or your buddy in Argentina – we are all connected and love communicating with each other. To do this, we use the technologies that are available to us. We use our beloved devices (e.g. mobile phones…
The Christmas holidays are just over and after a few days of everyday life we already long for the holidays again. Spring season can’t come fast enough – so how about a few relaxing days at the seaside then? For…
3, 2, 1… Happy New Year! Champagne glasses are clinking, fireworks are exploding and crackling everywhere and the whole sky is shining brightly. With the help of this pompous ritual, we say goodbye to the old year. But not everyone…