The Blog of Phyz

High schools in Illinois are doing it; you should, too. I never thought it was a good idea to have radioactive samples of any kind in a hig...

Sturgeon's Law might appear too generous when applied to the web wonder, YouTube . Still, the online video resource does have its momen...

The story of an angel photographed over the South Carolina state fair has been making the rounds. I found it at Bad Astronomy . I promptly m...

My friend, Marion, sent me this one. It's from Car Talk's series of Puzzlers. Doing the Math on the Ever-Slowing Drive It may not b...

Did you know that ghosts haunt the site of a theater fire in Chicago? No really! It was on the local news. Check the video clip right here. ...

As I've been cheering on the DEtroit Tigers in the World Series, I've been exposed to an ad for the Dodge Nitro. Frequently. And I c...

I'm now done teaching all the standards in Standard Set 1: Motion and Forces. Constant "and" average speed, Newton's laws,...

My last two posts about the uselessness of the STAR result reports given to teachers by my district got me all worked up. So I wrote a frank...

In the previous post (below), I listed the problems with the STAR reports that my district generates for me. Extraordinarily useless. Here...

Each spring, California public high school students sit for a battery of state-mandated exams. The results are machine-scored and tabulated....