{"id":1502,"date":"2010-05-03T00:31:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T00:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2010-05-03T00:34:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T00:34:33","slug":"scientific-illiteracy-on-the-history-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1502","title":{"rendered":"Scientific (il)literacy on the History Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I don&#8217;t usually play the geek game and look for nits to pick in television science programs. But&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s gem comes courtesy of the Canadian History Channel and their Aftermath series, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.ca\/video\/default.aspx?releasePID=DJeyc9qP1DhSdWbNZ92xZfWCfEYBMB1n\">first episode<\/a> of which I just watched over the Internet. The show had many eyebrow-raising moments (and I don&#8217;t mean the implausible concept itself, about the Earth&#8217;s rotation slowing down to zero in a mere five years; I could get over that if the science had been right otherwise). This particular gem of a sentence, complete with fancy animation, especially caught my attention:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/cori.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1507\" title=\"cori\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/cori.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/cori.jpg 604w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/cori-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rotation of the Earth creates constant patterns of east-moving winds in the Northern hemisphere, and west-moving winds in the Southern. This is called the Coriolis effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh really. I wonder if pilots flying in the Southern hemisphere know this.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1502' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I don&#8217;t usually play the geek game and look for nits to pick in television science programs. But&#8230; Today&#8217;s gem comes courtesy of the Canadian History Channel and their Aftermath series, the first episode of which I just watched over the Internet. The show had many eyebrow-raising moments (and I don&#8217;t mean the implausible <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1502' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,28,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-television","category-weather","category-22-id","category-28-id","category-34-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}