I’m back in Farmville after spending the weekend in College Park, MD being taught how to teach. (Technically, I’m in Richmond working on research right now, but I will be in Farmville tonight.) I didn’t get an opportunity to blog about the workshop much as it was going, because the schedule was very dense and [...]
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Tags: AAPT, Eric Mazur, peer instruction, think-pair-share
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Uhhgg! The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August. But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists’ wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth? Or spit out particles [...]
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Tags: black hole, fusion, LHC, troofer
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