What Questions Do You Have About How the World Works?

Actors Alan Alda and Stony Brook University collaborated to create an initiative to explain science to children. The challenge is to explain what the flame is in such a way that an 11 year old can understand. What is your problem about how science and the world work? How do you explain basic scientific concepts to children?

As Kenneth Zhang reported, when Arda was a young student, he planted a seed of the Flame Challenge.

The answer surprised him. The flame is certainly oxidized and it is a chemical reaction that occurs during combustion. But I do not explain why the flame burns orange, why it creates heat, or anything else Arda really wants to know.

"This is simply a different name," he said on the phone last week. "It is like saying" Well, the flame is Fred ".

When a scientific journal asked Mr. Arda to write an editorial on communication science, the old questions about flames came back. His articles start with anecdotes

Then he thought that it would be possible for anyone, including scientists, to provide an explanation about flames, why not to create a game, recruit an 11-year-old child and decide which is the best.

This is what he and Stony Brook did, // there is a possibility of creating flamechallenge.org website, collecting entries, video, graphics, or just a word.

Student: Please get inspiration from Mr. Arda's question, "What is a flame?" And tell me about your basic question about science and the world. Or try explaining another scientific concept to explain what the flame is, or to see if your explanation is clear and effective.

Please give the following comments to the students aged 13 and older. Please use only your name. For reasons of privacy policy, students' comments will not be posted using the last name.

I am interested in the world. Please read carefully and ask all questions and be sure to check what you are talking about. This simple effort to broaden your knowledge will improve your communication, the ability to judge each factor as it happens, and the way you better change your business's potential choices. When people lay their heads on their heads and organize them, we are very angry. However, one of the ways that seems to be very effective in doing this is the story. The story has a logical progression. Through a story, it is easy to think how decisions lead to effects and how to handle them.

COWEN: I would like to ask you some questions about the earliest novels you first wrote online. You have a story called "egg". It is one of your most famous works. If the world is like everyone else we have dealt with, we feel that we are reborn ourselves to a certain extent. Or is it not so so so long ago? WEIR: Well, there are two ways of thinking and I got a lot of feedback about "The Egg". "I am talking about it, I am experiencing this from his position, I have already experienced this, I am OK, we all should be good," Other ideas are people Oh, that tribe, they are not enlightened by our tribe.