OUR candidate for best press-release headline of the year is the one we received recently from the US National Science Foundation: “Catapulting Barbie Doll Heads”.
We certainly read on – and found that, following concern that traditional science teaching may be alienating to girls, the NSF had funded 225 projects aimed at sparking girls’ interest in science, maths and technology.
The press release reviews the results and asks: “Would you have loved physics more if you started the course by having to devise a catapult that would get the head of a Barbie doll over the castle wall during a mock…
