Today’s physics news: Thursday, 12 November

APS rejects plea to alter stance on climate change

The American Physical Society (APS) has “overwhelmingly rejected” a proposal from a group of 160 physicists to alter its official position on climate change.
Physics World

Mandelson announces 35,000 new apprenticeships

Lord Mandelson today announced plans to cull thousands of the worst college courses and up to 30 training quangos to pay for 35,000 new apprenticeships
The Guardian
BBC News

Lithium clue for planet-hunters
 
Astronomers tell the journal Nature that Sun-like stars with orbiting planets tend to be depleted in the element lithium. 
BBC News 
 
 
The 10 weirdest physics facts, from relativity to quantum physics
 
The Telegraph has put together a collection of 10 of the strangest facts they could find, with the help of cosmologist and writer Marcus Chown, author of We Need To Talk About Kelvin, and an assortment of Twitter users
The Telegraph