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Wow… Aaron O’Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object | Video on TED.com: “Physicists are used to the idea that subatomic particles behave according to the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics, completely different to human-scale objects. In a breakthrough experiment, Aaron O’Connell has blurred that distinction by creating an object that is visible to [...]

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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 [...]

Pretty cool use of an NXT… …Niko, the N900-powered Lego robot, looks poised to take over Twitter (video) — Engadget: “a machine called Niko that has Lego Mindstorm NXT 2.0 components for a body and an N900 for a brain. The bot has been under construction for a few weeks but it has just made [...]

Next week, we’ll start our studies on “Fluid Dynamics” which is Chapter 11 in your book. That’s just a fancy term for how forces affect fluids. Sounds boring? Nope, it’s fun. You’ll see. How are Pascal’s, Archimedes’ & Bernoulli’s principal applied at a water park?? – Yahoo! Answers: “How are Pascal’s, Archimedes’ & Bernoulli’s principal [...]

Ben H. and Evan present Newton’s Laws via Halo Awesome.

Nice (stick around for the ending)… Newton’s Set of Laws! The Song

Full of Awesomeness (watch via Vimeo if you’re at school since YouTube is blocked): 8th Grade Students at Spartanburg Day School tackle the ideas and implications of string theory… 1 minute at a time. YouTube Link

Here are a few video highlights from today’s session… enjoy!

Here’s a note for parents: Dear Parents – During our Trip to Washington D.C., I thought it might be informative, entertaining and interesting for you to follow along with some of our exploits and excursions around the capital city. – If you’d like to get a few glimpses into our trip, I’ll be sending out [...]