… but you can see a pulse of light travel!
TED talk: Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second.
Link via Physics & Physical Science Demos, Labs, & Projects for High School Teachers.
Category Archives: Physics
Science and music
Today’s Rolling in the Higgs thread on MetaFilter sent me on a tour through Youtube and Vimeo…
Tim Blais aka A Capella Science (Tim explains about it here): Rolling in the Higgs (Adele Parody). Tim also is one half of Cabin Nine, and they cover songs like these: Europe: The Final Countdown (with guitar and cajon!), Amy Winehouse: Rehab.
AstroCappella is a project by The Chromatics: NASA | The Sun Song.
And of course this oldie but goldie: CERN Rap (also on Youtube, lyrics here).
My favourite physicist…
… who actually worked on the Manhattan Project in New Mexico during WW2:
MetaFilter: The FBI has a “Do Not Contact” List?
The Feynman Files. “For the first time, FBI records for Dr Richard Feynman have been released to the public. They document the Bureau’s apparent obsession in the 1950’s with outing him as a communist sympathizer, and include notations from several background checks as well as interviews with his colleagues, friends and acquaintances.”
Oh, to do physics experiments in space
Sometimes I wish that you could switch of gravity for some experiments, especially during some lessons at school. I’m sure my students and I would have as much fun as Don Pettit (his weblog is Letters to Earth) who uses his spare time on the ISS to do some fun experiments. I especially enjoyed watching Thin Film Physics, Goo! and of course the vacuum cleaner hose turned into didgeridoo.
By the way, his time lapse from space is also pretty neat.
Links via MetaFilter: Physics Demos that are OUt of this World, Earth from Day to Night.
Interview with the First Man on the Moon
MetaFilter: “An Audience With Neil Armstrong is an hour long interview with Neil Armstrong about the moon landings from 2011, including a comparative view of footage from the Eagle’s landing alongside Google Moon maps.”