Nothing local, so let’s all enjoy this delightful correction from the New York Times (if you follow the link, the correction is s appended to the bottom of the very good Times article):

Correction: December 4, 2009
An article on Nov. 13 about Sean Bedford, the Georgia Tech offensive lineman who is also an aerospace engineering major, misstated the terms that David Scarborough, a senior research engineer, used in teaching the jet and rocket propulsion class. The terms were “isentropic flow,” “stagnation states” and “adiabatic efficiency for the diffuser” — not “isotropic stagnation state” and “idiomatic deficiency for diffuser.”

I am very sympathetic. In the next three hours I’m having two phone interviews (one about microbial ecosystems in Arctic ice, one about the details of the electrical grid) that will be full of terms I don’t understand. Also, since I put a boneheaded screwup into a Telegraph story last week - switching which type of H1N1 vaccine has live virus and which has dead virus - I can hardly feel superior!

Spotted via Regret The Error.