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We set up ExploratRio 2015 on Tuesday, April 14. That process looked like this. ExploratoRio 2015 Setup The following day we opened ou...

It began in October, 2012. Full story here. At the outset, it looked like this. In June, 2013, it looked like this. Last year (A...

If you're hip enough to have tuned into this blog, you've probably seen the viral video of the cinder-block smash demo gone wrong. I...

As played with a bundle of silk thread, as you do. This gem comes to The Blog of Phyz from Inderkum's Jessica Downing, an upbeat, res...

I guess I missed this one the first time around. Better late than never. I've seen magnetic levitation, but it didn't look like this...

Low frequency sound douses a flame. I haven't seen a good explanation. In NGSSpeak, I'd say what we have here is engineering without...

One of the scariest parts of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are the Science & Engineering Practices. An easy way to slowly...

This one's for you, imagineers! What is Plastimake? This is the kind of modeling I can get excited about!

Once upon a time (a few years ago), a reasonable high school physics question was, "Why do the first broadcasters in a given television...

If you're an AP Physics 1 or AP Physics 2 instructor, you've already been through The College Board's 2014-15 course audit. Th...