Attitude shaping?

“Science is largely about memorizing facts.” So wrong, so prevalent, so frustrating.
David Wittman teaches introductory astronomy at UC Davis, and he decided to see if his course affected attitudes like this. In a recent preprint he describes the results of a before and after survey covering a range of statements about how science works.
It’s not [...]

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Measuring earthquakes, because there’s nothing a MacBook pro can’t do

If you have a recent MacBook or MacBook Pro, chances are good that you have a built-in seismograph — an instrument that measures shaking. These are the things that are used to measure earthquakes.
What you have in your laptop is actually a Sudden Motion Sensor. This is a cute little device that tries to determine [...]

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