Terrorism Countermeasures
Restrict Freedom
of Scientific Inquiry in USA.

"An American Institute of Physics survey of universities showed that at least 20 percent of foreign students in physics admitted to U.S. schools had problems entering the country last year," the Associated Press reports. Why? Continued fallout from Nine Eleven has severely resricted the ability of foreign graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to obtain visas. That's not all. "Influential researchers and academic organizations complain that inquiry has been hindered by new anti-terrorist laws, tightened national security and stricter immigration practices," the AP reports. How seriously do restrictions on freedom of scientific inquiry threaten the ability of USA science to accomplish research? The AP article offers a hard look at the issue.

Counterintuitive Physics:
a Persistent Problem
in the History of Science.

"In America's high schools, physics teachers routinely wrestle with the clash between students' intuitions and the realities of physics," writes Keay Davidson in the San Francisco Chronicle (August 4, 2003).  The intellectual conflict between a person's preconceived notions and the realities of hard science extends beyond the classroom into many aspects of life, including the recent investigation into the destruction of Space Shuttle Columbia. Researchers have named this associative disconnect "counterintuitive physics," which Science Writer Davidson explores in the Chronicle article. You can read "Common Sense Doesn't Always Fly" by clicking here for passage to another realm of the World Wide Web.