The Blog of Phyz

There are some awkward time slots that arise at my school this time of year. We schedule final exams in a semi-staggered manner so that seni...

I am sometimes accused of expressing OCD-like tendencies. I label lab equipment by group and store apparatus in an organized manner. I don...

I posted a new activity to PhET 's website. It's based on their simulation, John Travoltage . The simulation explores triboelectric ...

Last year's AAPT Summer Meeting was held in my fair college town of Ann Arbor. I'm not sure what the Committee on Physics in High Sc...

Actually, all ExploratoRios are one day only, going back to the very first one in 1993. It's still a groovy, hands on experience of scie...

Addison Wesley's forthcoming Conceptual Physics Laboratory Manual: Activities · Experiments · Demonstrations · Tech Labs by Paul G. He...

A colleague at school is an accomplished runner and a world traveler. While in Spain, he learned of a "balance bracelet." For a me...

Like I say, where were the psychics on 9/10? And yes, the title of this post is redundant (or what I like to call a "double redundancy...

morality is a brain process, not a product of having a soul. Knock me over with a feather!