The Blog of Phyz

KQED' s Deep Look produced a nice piece on the structural color seen in iridescent colors in organisms. What Gives the Morpho Butter...

Short answer: work hard. Oh you wanted specifics? Keep reading. One of the intricacies of education is that we can do the same thing yea...

You have to have lived many summers to remember when "In Color" was appended to television show titles to distinguish them from hu...

Serendipity. What a great thing among the scientifically curious. Ornithologist Jamie Dunning’s serendipity compelled him to shine ultravi...

Some of us are old enough to remember physics lectures. I may have even dabbled in that art during the first five years of my career. But it...

You know it's a bad situation when the hashtag basically writes itself. This first year of teaching AP Physics C: Mechanics and Electr...

When Honda produced a musical road in Lancaster, California a few years ago, I linked to their commercial and developed a lesson that includ...

Physics teachers hope to inherit or acquire useful lab apparatus. When I arrived at Rio Americano in 1986, the physics program had suffered ...

Just a quick public service reminder. The Flickr album of the valentines is here . Alex McKale's movie of the valentines is here. ...

I worked all last weekend learning how to integrate the Electric Field near an infinite line of charge, finite line of charge, charged ring ...