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Date: July 16th, 2009

We Are ‘Go’ for Apollo 11

16 July, 2009 (08:29) | History, Photos, Tech |

The Big Picture: Remembering Apollo 11
Also: radio rebroadcast from NASA

The Right Room for an Argument

16 July, 2009 (03:00) | Science-general, science-y observation |

In an earlier post I eschewed a rant, because I figured I’d go too far afield from the original premise of teaching kids to argue. Chad’s post, The Loud Bigotry of Blog Conversations reminded me that I had this post tucked away on a shelf.
Chad makes an excellent point about blog discussions, which I [...]

Run, Run, Run …

16 July, 2009 (03:00) | Food, Weird |

… as fast as you can. You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!
You can dissect him, though, as paradoxical as that is.
Gingerbread Man Dissected
(Big version of main picture)
There’s also a gummi bear dissected in the digital gallery.

One For the Hotshot

16 July, 2009 (03:00) | Physics |

Uncertain Principles: Pop Quiz: Michelson Interferometer
When there’s no light on the viewing screen, we have light going into the interferometer, but no light coming out. What happened to the light?
It’s important to note a clarification Chad gives in the comments
To clarify (or maybe confuse) things a bit: this is a hypothetical idealized Michelson interferometer [...]

 

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