Hopefully this is an opportunity to caution people to question sources and information before they consume it. There is a lot of bad science on social media. The science interest from this challenge should be leveraged not muted. She posted, “Broom challenge: let's be glad people are excited about science!” She’s right. She conducts research at the intersection of weather and social science. If this viral exercise caused a student to ask a question, it is probably a good thing as long as they receive the right answers.Ĭassandra Shivers-Williams is a colleague in Oklahoma. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) careers will dominate the landscape going forward, and it is important for kids to engage. I have written previously in Forbes about the need to make science fun.
The third thing to know about the “broom challenge” is that it stimulated science curiosity among kids, parents, and even celebrities. The vernal equinox is the transition to warmer months and a greater amount of daylight hours.
During winter, it is tilting away from the Sun and is why we have colder seasons. The Northern Hemisphere of Earth will start tilting more towards the sun. We are currently approaching the vernal equinox. Rarely do we see any new stories reporting that this same feat can be achieved every other day of the year as well
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Rarely does a year go by in which a local TV news station doesn’t send a reporter out to a neighborhood park to capture images of people delightedly placing eggs on the ground and watching in amazement as the eggs stand on end. The website provides an excellent explanation in its debunk of the “egg standing” myth:Įvery year on the vernal and autumnal equinoxes (on or about March 20 and September 22), the two days per year in which the length of day and night are the same, we hear about a magical property of these days that allows eggs to be balanced on end. Even though equally wrong, I can at least see a logic to anchoring the egg myth to the equinox. The scientist in me wonders what the rationale was behind February 10th for this broom challenge. Second, this is a good opportunity to explain the equinox.
My colleague Brian McNoldy at the University of Miami posted on his social media page, “Did I miss something? Why are people posting pictures of brooms standing up? Broom Pride Week?” When one of his friends explained what was going on, McNoldy said, “It will do that every day of the year though.” It probably has more to do with the broom and its lower center of gravity than anything celestial. This time, Twitter-lore said that NASA claimed a broomstick would stand up on its own because of gravity or something about the Earth’s axis on February 10th, 2020. This seems to be a recurring theme as I have written Forbes pieces in the past debunking social media myths that November would be dark for 15 days or that NASA has a massive cloud generating machine. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images for AEG) Getty Images for AEGįirst and most importantly, the challenge seems to be based on a fake information attributed to NASA. of California, a 197km stage from King City to Laguna Seca on in King City, California. KING CITY, CA - MAY 15: A detail view of the broom wagon during stage three of the 13th Amgen Tour.
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