The Blog of Phyz

Pegboard 1.0 While driving to Winnemucca for last October's annular eclipse, I stopped by the Lowe's in Idaho Falls to pick up a pan...

"Posters" has been a recurring skit on Saturday Night Live. It originally featured guest Emma Stone and cast member Pete Davidson,...

In retirement, I find moments of serendipity from time to time. While meandering the Interwebz looking for the source material used in a les...

When I came across a credulous local TV affiliate news item in 2006, I immediately turned it into a blog post . But the Internet is ephemera...

I recently came across a video of tape measures "racing" along a board of wood as they retract. Who doesn't love extending the...

Rationale and method for creating lab groups that consist of four students, each from a different performance quartile Paperwork Reduction M...

I clearly wanted to turn assessments (summative assessments, mind you) into learning tools, as evidenced by Test Correction Journals (see pr...

Assessments: quizzes, tests, exams. There is a big part of the teacher's soul that hates these things. We love our subject matter and lo...

A theoretical physicist walks into a bar. Specifically, Jim Al-Khalili walks into a recreation of a in 1920s speakeasy where a prohibition-e...

Two media items in two days. Move over Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, and Carl Sagan. Make room for The Next Generation. Image: Science Frid...