GriffinScience

Pretty much the perfect picture: via Laughing Squid

If you’ll remember from our studies of String Theory and gravitons, I made the statement that I’m not a big fan of including gravity as a fundamental force of nature. The New York Times has an in-depth piece that explains this more… A Scientist Takes On Gravity – NYTimes.com: “So says Erik Verlinde, 48, a [...]

I’m working on our GriffinScience Textbook for next “year” (not sure why we call them school years…) and it’s coming together nicely. We aren’t going to be using a standard textbook. Instead, I’m writing everything (along with student work during the “year” of course). All of the excerpts in the book are from primary texts [...]

Today is Nikola Tesla‘s birthday! Let’s celebrate with this over-the-top song from the band Tesla:

Fascinating… The Incredible Shrinking Proton That Could Rattle the Physics World | 80beats | Discover Magazine: “But the big story this week in Nature is that we might have been wrong all along in estimating something very basic about the humble proton: its size. A team from the Paul-Scherrer Institute in Switzerland that’s been tackling [...]

I hope you all had a great Fourth of July. Anyone go see a fireworks show? Mary Hudson, Laura, Anna and I saw a great show here in Asheville from the top of a tall mountain (hiking up a steep road with an infant is much more difficult than it sounds). Anyway, as we watched [...]