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In just a few hours, the shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center. Atlantis will deliver parts to the international space station, with a few creatures stowed among the cargo. No, not pigs, but butterflies. One hundred K-12 schools will receive “habitat kits” to observe butterflies develop in earthly classrooms while simultaneously watching larvae in outer space.

Here’s another way to make science appeal to kids – put it to song. Take one part Mr. Wizard and two parts High School Musical, shake vigorously, and you get The Sounds of Science.

Primary education is compulsory in Pakistan, but five million children don’t go to school. Literacy rates in Pakistan are about 50 percent and the Pakistani government has promised a renewed commitment to improving eduction.

College students are notorious file-sharers, gladly swapping music and movies online.

College professors looking to drive up enrollment are taking a page from the advertising playbook, by jazzing up course catalogues with sexier names for dull-sounding classes.