Swans on Tea

Kerning is the adjustment of the spacing between letter pairs in printing. Improperly done, (overkerning?) this can make letters run together, and e.g. “rn” is difficult to distinguish from “m,” especially for those of us with less-than-perfect eyesight. (And take care not to shove your “L” too close to your “I” since that [...]

Still catching up from more than a day (and more than a blog-cycle) without power. Guide for the Amateur Physicist, which (if I were to have input) might be subtitled “This is why your missive isn’t science,” or, if I were Mike Myers in an SNL sketch, it might be “If it’s not physics, [...]

Science Education for Everyone: Why and What? over at physics and physicists. A commentary on an article at redOrbit.
The original article makes several good points but, unfortunately, also build a strawman or two.
A common response to the notion of teaching all of the sciences is the claim that the standard type of [...]