The Blog of Phyz

The Skinny Fish Tank has now been unleashed to the world, thanks to Arbor Scientific. They call it the Laser Viewing Tank (P2-7690) , but it...

As mentioned in previous posts, I'm a big fan of the PhET simulations. Today, I posted three activities to PhET's teacher-sharing re...

Musical Tesla Coil + John Williams' Star Wars Music = Big Geek Fun Oh yeah, and did I mention a dude dons some shiny Faraday fashion and...

I'm in the process of organizing and adding to the content of my high-speed video page . The work continues, but much of it is done. And...

For listening pleasure and huge concert productions, I prefer Jean-Michel Jarre . But for home-made, geeky "wow factor," the conce...

I'll be there. Click the graphic for details.

The new Physics Released Test Question set was posted yesterday on CDE's STAR resources page . The typographical issues (mentioned in t...

One element of the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) program is the publication of a sample of the test questions that have been use...

As it turns out, no one. At least according to a comprehensive evaluation made by the Fordham Institute . The study was published in 2005, b...

A couple of nice "meta" websites for scientists and skeptics. Why is Science Important? It features a variety of scientists answer...