The Blog of Phyz

Paul Hewitt (author, Conceptual Physics ) contributes a "Hewitt Drewitt" physics cartoon puzzle to each issue of the American Asso...

PTSOS colleague, Dan Burns, has his students look at pixels through a small, powerful magnifier. Five years after he shared this idea at a ...

and well-intentioned marginalizers gonna have some 'splainin' to do. Dig in! (Click the first panel to get the rest of the story.)...

This is your friendly reminder to get it in gear if you want to go to this year's premiere celebration of science, skepticism, and crit...

The good people at PhET have produced a sim called " Photoelectric Effect ." As they describe it, "See how light knocks elec...

Excuse me while I don't stifle a yawn. Harold Camping has pegged May 21, 2011, as the day that good Christians will be raptured and Ju...

As mentioned in a previous post , a PTSOS participant alerted me to the prospect of constructing a wave machine with Gummy Bears. I was in...

While hosting ExploratoRio, I try to snap a photo or two. That's probably a bad idea, since there are so many mini-crises I should be ...

UPDATE: ExploratoRio evening program has been bumped up. It will run from 6:30pm to 8:00pm.  It seemed so far off when we began preparation...

In the residue of the school's recent WASC evaluation process, there is an interest in increased "transparency." There was a ...