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Archive for November 10th, 2007

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Would intelligent aquatic creatures with opposable thumbs ever develop Newtonian mechanics?

By Thoreau
Well, would they?
I was talking to a guy who observed that misconceptions about physics persist because in a world full of friction, and where gravity is always dragging things down to the ground (where friction can then take hold of them) it’s not at all obvious that an object at rest will remain at [...]

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Just give me my copy of the Watchtower and leave me alone

By Thoreau
My observation on the physics education research community:  They make some damn good points.  Their techniques are indeed supported by data.  Although I’m not necessarily interested in addressing the issues that they want to address (I see other dimensions to education, but that’s another blog post) I freely admit that their techniques have a [...]

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Every Picture Tells a Story – of BEDWETTERS!

The War on Photography blog. All the little ways security panic has made this a crappier country add up.
Via Making Light.