{"id":94350,"date":"2025-05-12T03:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T03:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/94350\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T03:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T03:34:10","slug":"providing-sailing-news-for-sailors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/94350\/","title":{"rendered":"Providing sailing news for sailors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"omc-format-standard\">\n\t\t<b>Published on<\/b> May 5th, 2025 <\/p>\n<p>The fields of science, technology, engineering, and math \u2013 known as STEM in education \u2013 have latched on to sailing as a teaching tool. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussailing.org\/education\/youth\/reach\/curriculum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Sailing promotes its STEM curriculum<\/a> to schools, but have generations of sailors been learning these fields without knowing it?<\/p>\n<p>Well, there is one well-known mathematician and physicist who revolutionized physics with his theory of relativity that loved sailing. \u201cI have no special talent,\u201d wrote Albert Einstein in a letter in 1952, \u201cI am just passionately curious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Einstein really enjoyed sailing. And that\u2019s not all: when there was no wind, he often took notes or enthusiastically shared his latest ideas on the basic laws of physics with his fellow sailors. \u201cIt is impossible not to speculate about how much of the theory of relativity Einstein may have come across on sailing trips,\u201d writes the US trade journal Good Old Boat Magazine. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yacht.de\/en\/special\/people\/portrait-physicist-albert-einstein-relaxed-while-sailing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gbropes.square.site\/\" aria-label=\"G&amp;B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"150\" style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sailingscuttlebutt.com\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/scuttlebutt-leave-a-comment.jpg\" alt=\"comment banner\" style=\"width: 100%; height:auto;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"omc-single-tags\"><b>Tags:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sailingscuttlebutt.com\/tag\/albert-einstein\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Albert Einstein<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sailingscuttlebutt.com\/tag\/stem\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">STEM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"clear\"\/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"clear\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on May 5th, 2025 The fields of science, technology, engineering, and math \u2013 known as STEM in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3845],"tags":[23755,74,70,7022,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-94350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-albert-einstein","9":"tag-physics","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-stem","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114492766115521943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}