Science Faction

The “FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman” television program may have recently ended its five-year run on PBS, but it lives on in the memories of my children and at the FETCH!-sponsored science lab at our children’s museum. Our family’s fondness for “FETCH!” fetches back some ways. “FETCH!” for the uninitiated, is a science-education show disguised as a reality game show that’s hosted by a talking dog named Ruff Ruffman. It’s a brilliant show, and not in the British sense of “brilliant,” but rather in the non-British sense of it meaning—how should I say?—brilliant.

On this day, Ruff and the museum employees gave flight to our kids’ understanding of aerodynamic forces.