The Blog of Phyz

When I started teaching high school physics (during the Reagan Administration), I felt an obligation to "reinvent the wheel." I di...

I know I appear to harp on the poor psychics more than they merit. But do I really? They continue to get thoroughly credulous coverage in th...

The link below will take you to an interactive QuickTime presentation (export from Apple Keynote). It's slimmed down from the one I used...

A friend recently wrote me a kind note about the "First Day of School" post. In my response, I recalled the role that John Jewett...

Sacramento's ABC affiliate followed a few other gullible media outlets in the recent frenzy of JonBenet Ramsey/John Mark Karr overcovera...

Beloit College releases an amusing list of "Things your freshmen don't know" every year. It's an attempt to keep againg t...

It's arguably the hardest day of the school year. You don't know your students and your students don't know you. Eventually, you...

I have completed a fairly extensive update to The Book of Phyz online. Changes and corrections made during the past school year are reflecte...

that I'd meet the brother of an old schoolmate whose children were taught by my best friend's wife at an Applebees in Gillette Wyomi...

Look closely at the discharge path of this giant van de Graaff generator. The full image is here . The generator dome is on the right, the d...