The Blog of Phyz

In retirement, I find moments of serendipity from time to time. While meandering the Interwebz looking for the source material used in a les...

When I came across a credulous local TV affiliate news item in 2006, I immediately turned it into a blog post . But the Internet is ephemera...

I recently came across a video of tape measures "racing" along a board of wood as they retract. Who doesn't love extending the...

Rationale and method for creating lab groups that consist of four students, each from a different performance quartile Paperwork Reduction M...

I clearly wanted to turn assessments (summative assessments, mind you) into learning tools, as evidenced by Test Correction Journals (see pr...

Assessments: quizzes, tests, exams. There is a big part of the teacher's soul that hates these things. We love our subject matter and lo...

A theoretical physicist walks into a bar. Specifically, Jim Al-Khalili walks into a recreation of a in 1920s speakeasy where a prohibition-e...

Two media items in two days. Move over Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, and Carl Sagan. Make room for The Next Generation. Image: Science Frid...

Today's episode of the Atlas Obscura podcast was dedicated to the Theater of Electricity at Boston's Museum of Science . Atlas Obsc...

I created a new blog to document the curriculum resources I have authored/created over the years. Specifically the ones that have been publi...