This session is about how we prepare our undergraduates for graduate school — what to consider, and how we’re doing.
One thing to consider, in thinking about the goals of our undergraduate majors, is that we actually don’t want to prepare all of our undergraduates for graduate school. Physics is a liberal arts degree, […]

I’ve got two interviews on the last two Science podcasts — July 10th and 17th — one about nuclear waste management and one is an interesting little story about how tiger moths emit a sound that actually jams bat’s sonar, to keep from getting eaten. Here’s the link. I come in around 13:40 on […]

A comment from a teacher about a nice lecture on how brass instruments work. I’ve seen Brian Holmes speak and he is very good!

If you have a broadband connection you can hear and see a great lecture by Brian Holmes on how brass musical instruments work. It really is very good. I saw this […]

This is so charming I can’t stand it. You get the periodic table, and on each element, you can click to get a video with a little experiment on that element, performed by a guy with a cute British accent. Check it out — The Periodic Table of Videos.
Here is their YouTube channel.
Here’s […]