Boing Boing has a a few posts today about the wacky science content on kids' food products. Take, for example, the McDonalds Happy Meal that proclaims, "You can jump 6 times higher in space!" Um, I think you mean "the Moon," not "space," and it's not that you can jump six times higher on the Moon, it's that the Moon's mass (and hence, its gravitational pull) is 1/6 that of the Earth's. Duh! S-PGUON
Then there is the Pomodoro pasta package that explains, "Mars is the closest planet to the sun, but it's not the hottest -- Venus is!" I'm not sure what they were thinking with that one. It's just wrongity wrong.
Finally, here's a funny rant about the graph on a box of Cheerios that compares what effect eating a bowl of Cheerios has on kids' "power of concentration" as opposed to drinking a "glucose drink" and skipping breakfast altogether. "Cheerios - better for you than starvation!"
