Swans on Tea

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™, [...]

Aldebaran’s great, okay,
Algol’s pretty neat,
Betelgeuse’s pretty girls
Will knock you off your feet.
They’ll do anything you like
Real fast and then real slow,
But if you have to take me apart to get me there
Then I don’t want to go.
[Chorus]
Take me apart, take me apart,
What a way to roam
And if you have to take me apart to get [...]

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 [...]