Category: popular science and science education
Can Wikipedia be fixed? (And, should we care? [Is it time to walk away and lock it out like a virus?])
By 2012, the longstanding Encyclopedia Britannica had published its last print edition. Microsoft’s Encarta has long since bitten the dust, and so has Collier’s notable effort. Wikipedia, like it or lump it — mostly the latter — seems to have taken over that go-to first source slot. Indeed, for a great many subjects a Wikipedia […]
Why is it that there is discussion of superionic water as being both solid and liquid?
| February 13, 2018 | Posted by kairosfocus under Logic and First Principles of right reason, matter, thus atoms, ions, molecules, phases etc, Physics, popular science and science education, UD's Sci-Tech watch |
One of the things that struck me in looking at superionic water is how it is so often spoken of as though it were partly liquid and partly solid. I did a spot of reflection, which I am thinking it may help to headline. Where, some of the ideas being brought up will help us […]
