{"id":6114,"date":"2014-11-02T10:25:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T02:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6114"},"modified":"2014-11-02T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T02:25:59","slug":"five-science-facts-you-learned-at-school-that-are-plain-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/02\/five-science-facts-you-learned-at-school-that-are-plain-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Science &#039;Facts&#039; You Learned At School That Are Plain Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Time To Rewrite Textbooks?<br \/>\nThere are many more than the five &#8220;facts&#8221; that need to be fixed in school textbooks. I am not suggesting that we should start teaching 6-year-olds about matter that only appears in Nobel Prize-winning physics labs or filling the curriculum with detail on dozens of senses. But maybe we should stop telling kids fibs.<br \/>\nPerhaps a biology lesson should start with: &#8220;We have many senses, here are the five we are going to learn about.&#8221; Or a sentence dropped in here and there that mentions the existence of more than three states of matter. As for the tongue map, just rip that page out of the book.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/five-science-facts-you-learned-at-school-that-are-plain-1653589805?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&amp;utm_source=io9_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow\">Five Science &#8216;Facts&#8217; You Learned At School That Are Plain Wrong<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time To Rewrite Textbooks? There are many more than the five &#8220;facts&#8221; that need to be fixed in school textbooks. I am not suggesting that we should start teaching 6-year-olds about matter that only appears in Nobel Prize-winning physics labs or filling the curriculum with detail on dozens of senses. But maybe we should stop &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/02\/five-science-facts-you-learned-at-school-that-are-plain-wrong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Five Science &#039;Facts&#039; You Learned At School That Are Plain Wrong&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}