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March 14: Happy birthday, Albert Einstein! (b. 1879)
E=energy; m=mass; c=speed of light Happy Einstein Day! Almost fitting that he was born on π Day, no? I mean, is there an E=mc² Day? Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany, to...
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Then and now: Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah – 1869 and 2006
Photographer Timothy H. O’Sullivan toured the western territories — not yet states — for either the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or the U.S. Geological Survey, around 1868 and 1869. Color photography...
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Full Moon, waterfalls in Yosemite, modern cameras: Voila! Moonbows!
Dick Feynman taught in Rio de Janeiro for a while. He was frustrated at the way Brazilian students of that day learned physics by rote, instead of in labs. In a lecture he looked out from the...
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Encore quote of the moment: Wolfgang Pauli, “not even wrong”
Talking about Tea Party and Republican economics in the next few months? You’ll need to have Wolfgang Pauli’s wisdom at your fingertips: Wolfgang Pauli, circa 1945 - Nobel Foundation photo That’s not...
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Neutrinos and the speed of light
As usual, XKCD makes sense of unbelievable news: Click to see original at XKCDFiled under: Cartoons, Physics Tagged: Cartoons, Neutrinos, Physics, Speed of Light, XKCD
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December 30: Hubble Day, look to the stars
Lift a glass of champagne today in tribute to Edwin Hubble and his great discovery. Not sure what to call it — Hubble Day, Looking Up Day, Endless Possibilities Day — whatever, this is the anniversary...
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(Missing) Typewriter of the moment: Albert Einstein
Einstein at his office desk, Princeton, New Jersey, circa 1955 He wrote papers, and letters, long-hand. Sometimes they would be typed up by an assistant, perhaps Helen Dukas. The desk of Albert...
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Quote of the moment: “Shoulders of giants” (February 15)
February 15th is Shoulders of Giants Day (unless you’re still on the Julian calendar). Or should be. See this mostly encore post: Famous quotations often get cited to the wrong famous person....
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Belated birthday wishes to Albert Einstein!
Did you do what I did yesterday? I got so wrapped up in Pi Day festivities that I forgot to offer birthday wishes to Albert Einstein. So, an encore post. E=energy; m=mass; c=speed of light Happy...
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CERN press conference: Discovery of the Higgs boson
Here is the complete press conference held today, July 4, 2012, at the CERN offices in Geneva, Switzerland. (Alas, the press conference was not held in Cedar Hill, Texas, making it a monument to the...
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July 16, 1945 – Trinity test, world’s first atomic bomb
Another good reason to follow the National Archives on Twitter, Tumblr and other media: Great updates. Like this one on the explosive arrival of the Atomic Age: Atomic Age Begins Jumbo” atomic device...
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Look on the cloudy side of the street . . .
. . . for the rainbow. A view from Elbert Road, a few miles north of U.S. Highway 24 in Colorado, on July 18, 2012: Start of a dual rainbow in an afternoon rainfall, Elbert Road, Colorado – photo by Ed...
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Gradient Sun, NASA video for classroom use
Real science often is more fantastic that the stuff people make up. Haldane was right. Not the Sun you’re used to seeing. In a century our studies of the Sun progressed from the deep calculations based...
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December 30: Hubble Day, look to the stars for our future
[Today is actually the day! You may fly your flag if you choose. This is the traditional Millard Fillmore's Bathtub Hubble Day post.] Lift a glass of champagne today in tribute to Edwin Hubble and...
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Happy birthday, Albert Einstein!
How many ways can we say happy birthday to a great scientist born on Pi Day? So, an encore post. E=energy; m=mass; c=speed of light Happy Einstein Day! to us. Albert’s been dead since 1955 — sadly...
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Quote of the moment: Richard Feynman, “nature cannot be fooled”
Feynman speaking from the grave? You decide: Richard Feynman, at a hearing of the Rogers Commission, demonstrates with a glass of ice water and a piece of O-ring material, how cold makes the O-rings...
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April 20, Glow Day (Marie and Pierre Curie)
Caption from the Nobel.org site: “Radium hands from 1940-1950′s watches. (Photo licensed under Creative Commons, author: Mauswiesel, November 2011)” The glowing watches to which these hands were...
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Feynman Day! Richard Feynman, mensch, drummer, Nobel winner, born May 11, 1918
No, we’re not joking. May 11 is the anniversary of the birth of Richard Feynman. Richard Feynman. Borrowed from Luciano’s Tumblr, LikeaPhysicist In addition to his winning the Nobel Prize for Quantum...
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Feynman: Last Journey of a Genius (NOVA, 1998)
Richard Feynman, and a rubber O ring. See materials on Feynman’s role on the commission investigating the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster. Image from Callum Hackett via Nic Hammond Geography and...
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Edward Tufte channels Richard Feynman
Tufte writes at great length — well, writes and demonstrates — about yellow warning signs. (Yes, that Edward Tufte.) In one of his demonstrations, the art comes from the ideas and sayings of Richard...
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