The Blog of Phyz

It's been a little quiet around here for a variety of reasons. So let's shake off some dust for ... Halloween? Why not? Four drops...

My in-laws gave me a subscription to the Smithsonian magazine a few years back. I don't read it as regularly as my Sky and Telescope an...

Due to a crazy start of the school year I've had the "opportunity" to work with half a dozen subs since August. Out of four Ph...

The ringmaster of the Flying Circus of Physics is at it again. This time, Jearl hops into brewery for a beer. Root beer, that is. A former ...

I received an email from my office staff indicating a parent had called and wanted to talk to me, but I was teaching at the time. The parent...

This post concludes my four part series about total eclipses of the Sun. Part 1 described my first total eclipse experience, part 2 ...

One of my personal mentors was a very down-to-earth Physics celebrity, Dr. Paul Doherty of the Exploratorium. I met Paul within a month of m...

EBIT Cutaway One of the highlights of the workshop program I conduct at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a tour of the Electro...