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What Is Polarization of Light?
Understanding Light as a Wave To understand polarization, we must first understand light as a wave. Light is an electromagnetic wave, meaning it consists of oscillating electric and magnetic fields that travel through space. These oscillations occur perpendicular to the direction the light is moving.
By shahkar jalalabout 13 hours ago in Education
Why Is the Sky Blue?
What Color Is Sunlight? To understand why the sky is blue, we must start with sunlight. Although sunlight looks white to our eyes, it is actually a mixture of many colors. When passed through a prism, sunlight spreads out into a rainbow of colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
By shahkar jalalabout 13 hours ago in Education
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Social Media
Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI, is playing a very important role in social media today. Almost every social media platform uses AI in some way. From showing posts on your feed to suggesting friends and videos, AI works quietly in the background. In 2026, the role of artificial intelligence in social media has become even bigger and more powerful. To understand this role, we first need to understand what AI technology really is.
By shahid khanabout 14 hours ago in Education
Waiting To See If Knox County, Tennessee, Schools Stand With Dictatorship
Young Americans Are Taking A Stand - And Some School Districts Have Threatened to Punish Them For It Yesterday, January 30th, 2026, a nationwide strike occurred in America. No School, No Work, No Shopping was supported by schools and businesses in pressure against the violence ICE has used in Donald Trump's "mass deportation." What started as a Minnesota movement to hold the murderers of Renee Good and Kyle Pretti accountable, and to push ICE out of their city, the message spread like wildfire across America.
By Hope Martina day ago in Education
THE STORY OF LIGHT: A TRIBUTE TO DR. SHIRLEY ANN JACKSON AND THE AGE OF FIBER
Before the world could whisper through glass, before light itself carried our voices across continents, before fiber‑optic lines spread across the nation like glowing nerves of a digital body— there was a girl in Washington, D.C.
By TREYTON SCOTT2 days ago in Education
What happens to your brain without any social contract?
Everyone needs time to themselves, and peaceful solitude has stress-relieving benefits. But being alone takes on an entirely different dimension when it creeps up or is forced upon you. When that's the case, the effects can be surprisingly extensive. And though different people experience distinct effects at different times, symptoms tend to become more severe and persistent the longer one's isolated. When someone is involuntarily confined to one space indefinitely— for days, weeks, months, or even years—
By Munesh Yadav 2 days ago in Education
How Does Light Bend Near Massive Objects?
The Classical View of Light and Gravity Before Einstein, classical physics treated gravity as a force acting between masses. Since light has no rest mass, it was assumed that photons would not be affected by gravity. In this view, light always travels in straight lines, and any apparent deflection would have to come from interactions with matter, not gravity itself.
By shahkar jalal2 days ago in Education
Can Light Be Slowed Down or Stopped?
How Fast Does Light Normally Travel? In a perfect vacuum, light travels at a constant speed known as c, approximately 299,792 kilometers per second. This speed is a fundamental constant of nature and represents the maximum speed at which information can travel.
By shahkar jalal3 days ago in Education
