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Exa

During the 80’s and 90’s I was involved with quite a string of startups. Each one was an interesting story. Some folded, some split into pieces, some sold to bigger companies, and some changed...

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Urushiol

We were talking about cashews the other day, and most people had no idea that they look like this on the tree. I remembered that the shell is poisonous, but I’d forgotten the details....

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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Ice Spike

Have you ever seen an ice spike? They occur sometimes when the surface of a body of water freezes quickly. When the water below the surface freezes, it expands and forces itself out through...

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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...

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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...