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Category Archives: General
Dance your PhD contest – only a month to go
Dance Your PhD Contest – only a month to go. I’d even vote for replacing the final thesis defense with the PhD dance. If you truly understand the subject, you should be able to perform an interpretive dance about it. … Continue reading
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Particle Zoo – sewing the fabric of spacetime : subatomic particle plushies
If cuteness were a fundamental force, the plushies from ParticleZoo would be the strongest attractors in the universe. Check out the plushies from the particlezoo, you can get just one, starting at $9.75 or get a whole universe in a … Continue reading
Around the World in 80 Telescopes
Around the World in 80 Telescopes: I am eagerly awaiting the start of the webcast of around the world in 80 telescope. It starts on 4/3/09 at 9.00 UT; so about an hour from now for me. Go here to … Continue reading
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See Live Images from Mars – Mars in Google Earth
‘Live from Mars’ layer to view the latest images from NASA’s THEMIS camera on board the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, sometimes just hours after NASA receives them. You can also see live satellite orbital tracks, or check out where the HiRISE … Continue reading
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Physics Fun Day at Knott’s Theme Park
The 11th Annual Physics Fun Day at Knott’s Theme Park was on March 5th. Local students use Knott’s rollercoasters as a giant science lab with local educators joining together with Knott’s educational staff to create a variety of learning contests … Continue reading
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Physics – accelerate your mind
A beautiful poster design from American Physical Society. The poster was also sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers and by the Society of Physics Students. Bookmark, Share and Enjoy:
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Relativity train
A train that describes how one might travel through spacetime was discovered in the Bolivian desert by a physics teacher. The old locomotive itself must have pushed the boundaries of space and time due to its mysterious location in the … Continue reading
A bunch of Physics Equations.
My physics class were feeling unmotivated to revise for their upcoming Intermediate2 exam. So I gave them all a banana and challenged them to write as many physics equations on them as possible. I think we got 23 on one. … Continue reading
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Infinity – breaking the rules wallpaper
Infinity – Breaking The Rules. It could have been bolder in which infinity symbol didn’t need to break a metal mesh to get through; but I do agree with the sentiments. Source and Credit: M-War’s Deviant art. Bookmark, Share and … Continue reading
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John Updike’s poem on Neutrinos – Cosmic Gall
Neutrinos they are very small. They have no charge and have no mass And do not interact at all. The earth is just a silly ball To them, through which they simply pass, Like dustmaids down a drafty hall Or … Continue reading
Power of the thesis advisor – Power of a graduate student
Scene: It’s a fine sunny day in the forest, and a rabbit is sitting outside his burrow, tippy-tapping on his laptop. Along comes a fox, out for a walk. Fox “What are you working on?” Rabbit “My thesis.” Fox “Hmmm. … Continue reading
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Simplicity – May you have a simple 2009!
The simplest solutions are often the cleverest and they are also usually wrong! So the search for simplicity is guided by what Einstein taught us : “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Simplicity … Continue reading
A rainbow : double and supernumerary
I sometimes joke that if the physicists were given all the laws of Physics and asked to create a universe, we might have come up with galaxies, and stars and suns and moons and mountains and may be even rain, … Continue reading









