In honor of this season of Festivals of Light – Bob Kulawiec, Chemistry teacher extraordinaire, offers the following Holiday Tale – On Strontium, on Lithium, on Copper, on Barium: Most years, during the last class period of each section of chemistry before winter break, I share “celebratory holiday pyrotechnics” with my students. The dishes contain [...]
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Festivals of Light
Posted in Science on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Physics is Funny
Posted in Science on September 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
You may have already read that physicists at CERN, the world’s largest particle accelerator, claim to have found particles that may travel faster than the speed of light. What is this – some kind of joke? There is something funny about the finding though — it violates Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which has been [...]
Algebra 2 in the news
Posted in Math, Science, Uncategorized on April 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Do students need Algebra 2? Should students be required to take Algebra 2 to graduate high school? Burke thinks so; all students take three years of high school math to graduate, including Algebra 1, Algebra 2 and Geometry. We make this possible for all learners, offering three levels of instruction to students encountering what the [...]
I AM
Posted in Activism, Burke y El Mundo, Community, Performing Arts, Science on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just saw the Falls Church premiere of I AM http://iamthedoc.com/ . Check it out. Will be at E Street starting Friday. Heart-centered it had all my favorites: Thomas Merton, Albert Einstein, Desmond Tutu, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, and new insights on how we are biologically and spiritually hard-wired for cooperation. I AM The Documentary | [...]
To Infinity & Beyond
Posted in Science, tagged astronomy on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
NASA is winding down the Shuttle program, with the current last flight of Discovery this week. Check out this cool video of Discovery’s final launch, taken from a plane flying over Florida. God speed Disgovery.
Mountain River Cave
Posted in Environment, Science on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Maureen’s Seventh Grade Geography class may want to dig into Hang Son Doong, the massive cave recently discovered in Central Vietnam. Even the english translation of its name, Mountain River Cave, gives some poetic insight into its strange and endless subterranean world. National Geographic‘s photographs illuminate an underground universe no less fantastic than a combination [...]
None Shall Sleep (In Chem Class)
Posted in College Counseling, Education, Science on December 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Students applying to Cornell University may want to read up on chemistry professor, David Usher. According to this Cornell blog post, he sometimes gently awakens the occasional student asleep in his class by singing Nessun Dorma (”None Shall Sleep”) from Puccini’s Turandot or the Berceuse from Benjamin Godard’s opera Jocelyn, which begins, in Usher’s translation, [...]
The Stuff of Dreams
Posted in Musings, Performing Arts, Science, tagged music, Science on December 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Before he died in 2008, Carnegie Mellon Computer Science professor, Randy Pausch, gave a now famous talk called the Last Lecture. He wrote a book with the same title. Both are about achieving your childhood dreams. Although he was dying, his book and lecture were all about the role and the power that dreams play [...]
Shedding Light on Black Friday
Posted in Science, tagged Science on November 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The day after Thanksgiving – “Black Friday.” The biggest shopping day of the year. The term apparently originated in the ’60′s, in Philadelphia of all places, among local police who had to deal with increased traffic caused by mobs of x-mas shoppers. But is there more to it than that; do the crowds and hysteria [...]
Bridge Building Project
Posted in Science on October 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For our 7th grade inquiry lesson, we built bridges! First, we learned about cantilever, beam, arch, suspension and cable-stayed bridges. Then, students had to build their own bridges using the principles they had learned. Students had to decide which type of bridge that they would construct, and were given only simple materials, such as popsicle [...]
Father & Son Make Round Trip to Edge of Space (Sorta)
Posted in Education, Science, tagged astronomy, Science on October 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Speaking of space, turns out that traveling to the “final frontier” is no longer just the province of government agencies and science fiction. Luke Geissbuhler, a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, and his 7 year old son, Max, just sent their own homemade space craft on a round-trip journey 19 miles into space and back again. You can [...]
It’s A Small, Fairy Tale World (That We Inhabit)
Posted in Science, tagged astronomy on October 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The European Southern Observatory recently posted their Top 100 Images. Every one of the pictures is literally stunning. The picture above captures an edge-on view from Earth of our own Milky Way Galaxy. From this perspective you can see the basic structure of our spiral galaxy, which stretches over 100,000 light [...]
This Might Make Getting to Class On Time A Little Easier
Posted in Science, tagged technology on October 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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