Cool Science

I've been having inward strife over what to do with my "cool science" page and asked Jenn to blogify it for me and "voila" here it is. So what do I do? Part of me wants to complain a lot about pseudo-science. I watched, in agony, a few moments of the tv show "Numbers" and was horrified at the technobabble. Star Trek has the patent on technobabble - nobody can touch them and their reverse polarity tachyon beams. But on Numbers there is an earnest attempt to make solving crimes with calculus seem 'real' and 'easy'; but it's just creepy and cringeworthy instead. But then at the height of my cynicism I find this totally hip website tying fun math activities for teachers to the TV show, and they have really great stuff like the birthday problem and pythagorean triples in this week's activities and it's all stuff that was on the show. Then it dawned on me that I had become a math-grinch, and so have I resolved that, while I'm still uncertain what do with this, I will not complain (much) in my reincarnated science blog.