Einstein’s garden: translating physics into Blackfoot
Sharon Yellowfly has been preserving and expanding the Blackfoot language by translating the announcements of LIGO’s universe-bending discoveries.
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How English became the language of physics
Today, more than 90% of the indexed articles in the natural sciences are published in English. That wasn’t always the case.
New tennis ball tower, celebrating June Lindsey’s double-helix contributions, more physics slang
From Physics World, June 14, 2019: Symmetry magazine’s physics slang roundup is mentioned in this piece.
10 words that mean something different to physicists
Given the popularity of our first article about physics concepts with deceptively common names, Symmetry is back with 10 more seemingly normal words that mean something different in a science context. Some of this science sounds awfully familiar.