Galileoscope constructed
It’s been a frustrating week in some ways, so I took an hour off to look at the Galileoscope package that arrived a few days ago. Could a non-science person who is only moderately handy put a $20 telescope with supposedly great optical features together? I guess he could. And then he pointed it at […]
Serious science toy for the International Year of Astronomy: the Galileoscope
Galileoscope (not the ones in my house) I wasn’t going to mention it here until I got my hands on it, but the two Galileoscopes I ordered in the summer finally made their way to my house yesterday, so I can now tell you all: they’re shipping! They’re real! One is for us and the […]
Pork-barrel airplane hangars or science?
Florida State University physics professor Paul Cottle has a wonderful way of comparing the state’s science-education needs with what the state legislature’s pork-barrel politics has produced in the recent past: think about the $6 million cost of the airplane hangar former House Speaker Ray Sansom stuffed into the budget a few years ago pretending to […]
And now, Harvard digs deep in the public interest–NOT!
Is there anyone else who read of Harvard’s new tuition-free doctorate in ed leadership supported by the Wallace Foundation and first thought, “Oh, that’s in competition with the Broad leadership indoctrination inbreeding mutual backscratching society training”? I know what faculty and administrators thought: if there’s a (reputational) market for a tuition-free, glitzy finishing school for […]
In honor of rivalries
By Sherman Dorn on September 17, 2009
This afternoon my son will be on a bus with his marching band for a “road” game where his school’s football team is playing my daughter’s school’s football team. Minor irony: I can’t pick him up at the end of the game because he needs to go back with the band (to put away his […]
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