Vortices. I think. I USED to be blonde, but not anymore.

"Coriolis force is almost fictitious. Dang! Another thing they taught me in school down the damn drain! I'm all for science but I never got the update notice on that one-- all these years, I thought that was something we could count on. Crap!

Seriously, I find it amazing how science is so often presented nowadays in the schools-- all "knowledge" really-- as though everything that can be known is now definitively known, and always was known to be so. I remember science being taught by people in love with wondering and discovering, who could say with full pride and shared excitement, "This is what we think, this is what we are thinking about, this is what we hope to discover, this is the best we can figure it for now...." Made you want to discover some things yourself. Made you think maybe you COULD, if you kept your eyes open!

Now... kids don't just think they know everything; they think the books give them license to think so.

~S~