When Danish Physicist, Niels Bohr, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922, Carlsberg gave Bohr a house with a beer tap directly from the brewery. That’s the kind of national pride I like.
Month: September 2023
One would have to be incredibly naive or distracted to think that society is functioning properly. Very little of the federal government is operating in the best interests of the American people. On the local level, several cities have stopped enforcing laws and have gone quite feral.
On the Moon, astronauts will need protection from a different set of hazards. They’ll have to contend with cosmic and solar radiation, meteorites, wild temperature swings, and even impact ejecta. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has found hundreds of lunar ‘skylights,’ locations where a lava tube’s ceiling has collapsed, making a natural opening into the tube.
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Smart people know Richard Feynman.
Physicist Richard Feynman is a hero/celebrity in the world of physics. There are many great and interesting physicists, but Feynman had a clarity of thought and range of interests that makes any time spent learning about him is worthwhile. He makes you a better person.
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Colin from Accounts is an 8/10.
Colin from Accounts didn’t sound like my kind of TV show, but I gave it a try. I’m not usually a fan of Australian comedies. Too many of the characters treat each other poorly and they can be too much. Like, too wacky, too dumb, too confident, whatever. Deadloch on Amazon Prime is one that I tried recently. Colin from Accounts isn’t like that at all.
During the Covid year, the first quarter was going to be remote. and that was about all we knew. Teaching remotely, I couldn’t give students the a quality show, so I thought that I’d produce lecture videos that are good in a different way. The intent was to renovate the curriculum while producing videos that would be a resource for my remaining three or four years.
I’ve recently been conversing with a couple of students that I had during the Covid year. Both are in engineering at The Ohio State University. I had both when they were juniors in Physics, and again, as seniors in AP Physics 2. Since I knew them prior to the Covid year, I didn’t need to introduce myself. For students with whom I was not acquainted, it seemed important to produce a video that gave them some sense of Physics and how I approached the course.
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WSJ: Busting Bad Scientists
An award-winning Harvard Business School professor and researcher spent years exploring the reasons people lie and cheat. A trio of behavioral scientists examining a handful of her academic papers concluded her own findings were drawn from falsified data.
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Pier-Lon RV Park 5/10.
We spent three days at Pier-Lon campground. It’s on the West side of Medina, so pretty close and not far from I-71 so easy to get to. Pier-Lon has a lot of green space, play ground and full setup for $50 per night. There is a big pond with a beach and is a great place for kids. Alcohol isn’t permitted, so it is setup as a family destination.