Classical Academy to host math and science summer camp (The Shelby Star) Beginning in summer 2009, Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy will conduct a three week Math and Science Summer Camp sponsored by The Stonecutter Foundation. Quantum Computing Advances a Qubit Closer to Reality (Scientific American) Quantum computers are a sort of holy grail of information science. Their inherent computational advantage comes from their fundamental computational unit, the quantum bit ("qubit"). Unlike a digital bit in a classical computer, which can take the form of either 0 or 1, a qubit can be both zero and one simultaneously, throwing open the door to vastly more powerful computation. And although a ... Everett places third in national Latin essay contest (Flower Mound Leader) Mikenna Everett, Flower Mound High School junior, captured third place in the Latin essay contest at the National Junior Classical League conference held at Miami of Ohio University. Esa's on his way (Cooma-Monaro Express) COOMA'S very own classical guitar hero Esa Janara took out first prize at the Australian National Eisteddfod in Canberra last Saturday. Chamber music in a Damascene setting (The Daily Star Lebannon) When the Dutch classical singer Marcel Beekman visited Syria last week to rehearse and finally stage a classical chamber-music concert with Syrian students, he was greeted with an unexpected problem. Coming from differing cultural and educational backgrounds, Beekman and the Syrian students at first had trouble finding their footing.
