April 16, 2008 – 12:31 pm
This is McDonald’s idea of making their Happy Meals educational. (That I took this photograph may also be proof of bad parenting on our part, but let’s overlook that.)
I think what they mean is that you can jump six times as high on the Moon.
In case you were wondering, that’s because the [...]
Last night my wife and I could see a bright planet shining above the trees, which is unusual for being in Boston. We didn’t know what it was, but I knew how to find out after just having read about Stellarium.
This short film is a lot of fun, or at least you might think so if you like space, science, physics, and math, or you’re bit nostalgic about those films they showed you in grade school science class.
By the way, I instantly recognized the narrator as former MIT professor Philip Morrison, who hosted [...]
February 23, 2006 – 1:18 pm
A Toronto Star reporter weighs in on the relative permanence of mathematics and physics. Read his comment, then consider this: which is someone more likely to use today, the Pythagorean Theorem or Heraclitus’s theories of matter?
Currently, encryption is based largely on complex numerical codes that even the most sophisticated computers would, theoretically, [...]
October 6, 2005 – 8:47 pm
Journalists love to get “both sides” of an issue, so nothing could be a better setup for a story on the conflict between creationists and evolutionists than this: two rafts traveling through the Grand Canyon, one led by a creationist, the other by an evolutionist. On the former is a “pastor’s wife from Greensboro, [...]
September 22, 2005 – 9:36 am
The New York Times recently described how science museum workers deal with those who dare to question the hegemony (I’ve added the emphasis):
ITHACA, N.Y. - Lenore Durkee, a retired biology professor, was volunteering as a docent at the Museum of the Earth here when she was confronted by a group of seven or eight [...]