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		<title>I&#8217;m at the AAPT</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2011/07/31/im-at-the-aapt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at Creighton University in Omaha, NE for the 2011 AAPT Summer Meeting. There tends to be a lot of down time during these things, so I&#8217;ll probably kill time blogging about the things I find interesting. I decide that I would stay in the dorms this time around, so that I could save my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Titanium dioxide nanoparticles from powdered doughnuts</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2011/07/03/titanium-dioxide-nanoparticles-from-powdered-doughnuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took an entire bag of Sweet Sixteens and a full day of stirring, filtering, and baking. However, it appears that we have been successful in our first attempt at extracting TiO2 nanoparticles from powdered sugar doughnuts. The above image shows a thin film of TiO2 nanoparticles. We plan on characterization after the July 4th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How your courses could be hurting female physics students</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2011/04/22/how-your-courses-could-be-hurting-female-physics-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Physics Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender gap]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is, if you are male. Here is a great study from UC-Davis documenting the significant effect professor gender has on female students&#8217; performance in physics: http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/scarrell/gender.pdf Since there is not much I can do about being a dude, then I have to find other ways to reduce the gender gap in my courses. Akira [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re all going to die in 2036!</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2011/02/11/were-all-going-to-die-in-2036/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Physics News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2029]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2036]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it turns out there is an asteroid coming our way in 2029. No worries, though. There is practically zero chance that the asteroid will actually hit Earth. That should be comforting. The problem is, these things eventually come back around, and in 2036 &#8230; SPLAT! In 2004, NASA said there was a chance an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rain on demand &#8230; in the desert?</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2011/01/04/rain-on-demand-in-the-desert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I told you that there are giant metal towers in the middle of the desert manipulating the weather to produce rain, then you would ask what science fiction novel was I currently reading. Or, you would wonder whether I had gotten sucked into one of those weird History Channel shows about alien technology. Nope. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do climate scientists really agree that global warming is real and anthropogenic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Physics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pundits on television have been throwing around the number 97% recently. Specifically, they are claiming that 97% of active climate scientists agree that the earth has warmed since the beginning of the industrial period and that human action is chiefly responsible. Where in the world does this number come from? I was prompted to ask, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A solar cell from powdered doughnuts</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2011/01/01/a-solar-cell-from-powdered-doughnuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Powdered doughnuts are good for you! At least, if you&#8217;re interested in solar power. Yes, even you can build your own solar cell using powdered doughnuts and tea leaves. Prashant Kamat&#8217;s lab at Notre Dame has shown how the titanium dioxide (TiO2) can be extracted from powdered doughnuts and used to build a usable photovoltaic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 reasons why &#8220;Global Warming&#8221; is bad science and what a good physicist can do about it</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2010/12/28/2-reasons-why-global-warming-is-bad-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2010/12/28/2-reasons-why-global-warming-is-bad-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Physics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global warming alarmists have spent years blathering on about so-called models and data showing world temperatures rising and the catastrophic consequences. They are obviously full of crap for two reasons: (1) Have you looked outside? It&#8217;s snowing. In Myrtle Beach, SC. Blizzards up north. It&#8217;s cold. (2) Weren&#8217;t they talking about the coming Ice Age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are we teaching physics students to think like scientists?</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2010/12/26/are-we-teaching-physics-students-to-think-like-scientists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2010/12/26/are-we-teaching-physics-students-to-think-like-scientists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 23:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be at the AAPT Winter Meeting in January where I will give a talk about the conceptual physics course we have been developing (more here and here.) The main point of the talk is to look at the data and answer the question posed in the title. The answer to that question is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evaluation of Large-Enrollement Physics by Inquiry</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2010/12/20/evaluation-of-large-enrollement-physics-by-inquiry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2010/12/20/evaluation-of-large-enrollement-physics-by-inquiry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Physics Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[DIRECT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lillian McDermott]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I discussed a plan for my Conceptual Physics courses for non-science majors. Well, I taught the course. It was 48 students and me, and we successfully moved through a lot of the Physics by Inquiry (PbI) curriculum. Last summer, I outlined this plan for using Lillian McDermott&#8217;s PbI: I’m only using Volume [...]]]></description>
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