Swans on Tea

Is our children learning science?
Science Indicators: The More Things Change, the More They Don’t
Science literacy, or, to be more precise, the lack of science literacy.
The wrong answers to all these questions are idiotic, but they’re not idiotic in a religious way, unless I’ve been missing the public lobbying from the First Church of the Acousto-Optic [...]

Riveting science from the Titanic
Though I’m a little rusty at this, do you get a sinking feeling I’m not done with the puns just yet?

If you work in a big enough place, or even a small one for long enough, you’ll eventually run into the problem of two or more workers with the same first name. What do you do to bring the Pauli exclusion principle into play — a way to distinguish them so they don’t occupy [...]

Greg Laden on the Pioneer Anomaly
I’ll be interested to see a more detailed analysis. I can easily imagine how nonuniform heat flow and different emissivities could lead to asymmetric radiation patterns, and that would cause a small force on the craft.
[N]owhere in this story do you hear people denigrating, belittling, or even expelling scientists [...]