Tagged: science
The Quickening Art
We went to an interesting play last night. It’s called Yesterday Happened: Remembering H. M.. It’s about the life of Henry Molaison. He’s famous in the medical literature as HM. In 1953, experimental brain...
Engineering Competition
The competition for Tom’s engineering project was at the High School this evening. Here are Tom and his partner Matt arriving at the scene. One of the rules is that the machine had to...
Tom’s Engineering Project
Tom’s physics class has been working on an engineering project. They need to build a machine which will put 11 corks into a box. There are a bunch of rules about size and placement....
Fun With Dry Ice
Tonight the door bell rang. When we answered, the FedEx man handed us this big package. It turns out that my sister had signed my parents up for an ice cream of the month...
Flying Pyramids
It’s been years since I worked in Fluid Dynamics, but I still love a good fluids paper; especially a good unsteady flow solution. Check out this one which was just highlighted on ScienceNow. You...
Asteroid Discovery Visualization
This is a great visualization of all of the asteroids discovered between 1980 and 2011. I’m linking to it instead of embedding it because you’re going to want to go play it at really...
My day off in Cambridge
Today I was doing some extra credit for my AP Physics class. The assignment was to take some friends and ride up and down a tall elevator on a bathroom scale. (And who says...