Monthly Archives: March 2013

The above video could be used by a tutor to discuss some topics in high school and university physics but the best reason to watch it is just to be stunned by the spectacle of a very simple demonstration. I … Continue reading →

This is the last day of one of the saddest periods of the academic calendar here in Victoria. For the past two weeks, most students have been subject to a sick joke called Spring Break. How can a modern western … Continue reading →

Partly due to the recent but unrelated filling of a job vacancy in Rome, the above news story got very little attention. Last July’s heavily publicized experimental evidence for the Higgs boson has since been supplemented by analysis of more … Continue reading →

Nearly all of my time as a private tutor has been spent helping students to master math and physics so those subjects are the ones I have mentioned most often in this blog. Today I must digress slightly. Among those … Continue reading →

The above video of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft shows a stunning example of what has become known as coronal rain. It’s called rain because of what it looks like, not because … Continue reading →