[cinFLA]

Physicists, like engingeers don't always have the best writing skills.

But they are usually technically accurate and do not write in the jargon of the uniformed layman.

[djr]

What's your take on:

"When a passenger in an airplane feels pushed against his seat as the airplane accelerates down the runway, or when a driver feels pushed to the left when her car makes a sharp turn to the right, what is doing the pushing? Since the time of Newton, this has been attributed to an innate property of matter called inertia."

When being accelerated, we are pushed in the direction of acceleration and that's what we physically "feel". Now there may be some interesting mysteries beneath all this, as the article suggests, but in this set of examples it seems like an effort is being made to mystify scenarios that are completely consistent with basic explanations.

[El Gato]

But they are usually technically accurate and do not write in the jargon of the uniformed layman.

OF course they do, if that is their intended audience. You ever have to write an "Executive Summary"? They are one of the better examples of "dumbing down". When you must "dumb down" and/or use common terminology, sometimes technical inaccuracies creep in. :)