The Blog of Phyz

Look closely at the discharge path of this giant van de Graaff generator. The full image is here . The generator dome is on the right, the d...

The kids (and by that, I mean physics teachers age 18-108) have yet to tire of the ping pong vacuum gun. Monday evening's AAPT demo show...

Sunday may be the best day of the conference. A workshop in the morning covered a significant portion of cognitive research in physics educa...

...is here: http://phyz.smugmug.com/gallery/1699477 Included are photos from Sunday's High School Shar-a-thon and Monday's Demonstra...

Friday was flyday and in only three flights, I got from Sactown to Syracuse. Saturday was a rain day in Syracuse. Steady, warm, and... stea...

We see that you signed up for physics next semester. Hey, that's great; good for you! The thing is, we've been keeping track of the ...

In 1985, California stared down Texas over the inclusion of the term "evolution" in science books. Texas' Mel and Norma Gabler...

The Bad Astronomer is a never-ending fount of facts and funnies. He and I attended Michigan at the same time and had a friend in common, t...

I had the good fortune of seeing Australian guitar sensation Tommy Emmanuel perform in Berkeley last night. As if that weren't enough, ...

About ten years ago, I began plotting a significant change in the physics curriculum at my school. My plan was to change our AP Physics B co...