Swans on Tea

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Newly born identical twin stars show surprising differences
The identical twins were discovered in the Orion Nebula, a well-known stellar nursery, that is 1,500 light years away. The newly formed stars are about 1 million years old. With a full [...]

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Churchill, inspired by Twain, pre-internet.
Genepax Unveils a Car That Runs on Water and Air
Try again, you sensationalizing hacks. Versions of this story have spread across the web like a bad rash.
Their new [...]

I was poking around the toobz (looking for a citation or link to something about “slow light”) and ran across this press release from last year that made me clench and then start grinding my teeth. I have no idea who vets these things, but OMFG, it’s bad. The press latches onto these [...]

The New York Times covers blogging

It’s also pepsi-through-the-nose funny, especially if you are a reasonably strict grammarian.
Read about the f’amazing Dr. Novoselov

Over at Cosmic Variance, a discussion about getting the message of science out, in the context of the recent EXPELLED! brouhaha.
To the Framers, what’s going on is an essentially political battle; a public-relations contest, pitting pro-science vs. anti-science, where the goal is to sway more people to your side. And there is no doubt [...]

While poking around looking into the DST-doesn’t-save-energy story, looking for something that didn’t just link back to the WSJ story, I ran across this: a new lamp being hyped by some sites with a “green” tint, called Gravia. (a second story is here at treehugger)
The lamp took second place in the Greener Gadgets [...]

The red flag proclaiming “I don’t understand science” goes up when the story sounds something like this:
The panel includes the word “evolution” in state science standards for the first time, but it is relegated to a place among a host of ideas, including Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Relegated? To the “lowly” place that includes [...]

The first law of thermodynamics: Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Pretty straightforward. No loopholes.
So why does a press release from Los Alamos sound like it’s ignoring the first law of thermodynamics after painting the room green?
Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a low-risk, transformational concept, called Green Freedom™, [...]

There are a bunch of physics terms that get mangled by the press, and “rate of speed” is one of them. Turns out that Physics and Physicists blogged about it a week or so ago.
But I’ll add an “I concur” to it. Speed is dv/dt, or the rate of change of distance, which [...]