🧪 a fascinating book, about music, physics and maths... www.physicsresourcebank.com/post/in-perf...

🧪 a fascinating book, about music, physics and maths... www.physicsresourcebank.com/post/in-perf...

I was talking to a kid reader about penguins and mentioned that a "penguin scientist" had found some ancient fossils and the kid said PENGUINS CAN BE SCIENTISTS?! Naturally it reminded me of this pic, which I had to reshare with you all.

🧪Physics in Wales, Scotland, Ireland and beyond... www.physicsresourcebank.com/post/iop-phy...

Sample AAC (coursework) for Irish LC 🧪Physics published..... www.physicsresourcebank.com/post/sample-...

Your occasional reminder that Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick were in the same year in the same high school, liked each other’s writing, but never met in person.

🧪https://www.physicsresourcebank.com/post/esero-conference-sept-27th

Physics PLE days starting next week .... www.physicsresourcebank.com/post/physics...

🧪Frontiers of Physics Conference, Dublin, Sept 20 www.physicsresourcebank.com/post/frontie...

Physics PLE days starting next week .... www.physicsresourcebank.com/post/physics...

🧪In here, I tell the story of how, as a young man, I rubbed shoulders with a Nobel Prize winning physicist - and a key figure in modern science - but didn't notice..... tamarindlit.co.uk/product/issu...

very much enjoyed a great article by @maxcavitch.bsky.social in @tamarindlit.co.uk just now, in which he talks about his collection of rocks, and how they all .....taste different?! You can read it online...but in print, its a very beautiful thing:

🧪 ....to leave a long story just a little bit shorter, you can read the full story at this link (or on paper) @tamarindlit.co.uk tamarindlit.co.uk/product/issu...

🧪long story short.... as a young physics student in Trinity College in Dublin in the 1980s, I used to dread getting stuck behind a particular old man on the stairs. His slow progress would drive me to distraction, but etiquette made it difficult to brush past him at speed.....

🧪In here, I tell the story of how, as a young man, I rubbed shoulders with a Nobel Prize winning physicist - and a key figure in modern science - but didn't notice..... tamarindlit.co.uk/product/issu...

www.physicsresourcebank.com/post/review-... 🧪

The car they made in #engineering class and #capybara were used to measure #velocity and #acceleration. I love the sound of ticker timers in the morning! #physics

For Physics teachers (mainly in Ireland), new PowerPoints for the new specs, courtesy of Richard Downey..... www.physicsresourcebank.com/post/new-pow...

You should all be listening to George Houston. Incredible voice and songwriting. Saw him at EP in a small tent. Can't believe he's not already headlining. open.spotify.com/artist/0P82X...

Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A young human (9?) is skipping next to Grandad as they walk down a street lined with blossoming trees. A violin case and sheet music gripped in each of her hands. Humming bits of music into the still night air. (1)

I bought my friend an elephant for her living room. She said, "Thanks." I said, "Don't mention it".

Sharing some poems today at EP - something I was inspired to start doing by a wonderful teacher, @kitfryatt.bsky.social of DCU.

Electric Picnic 2025

On US naval submarines some crew members wear camouflage uniforms. Idiots.

Buried in this report is the fact that there was more migration from the US to Ireland last year than the other way around...try explaining that to the famine-era Irish (or even the 1980s Irish). www.rte.ie/news/busines...

🧪A look at the stats for Physics Students in Ireland completing their Leaving Cert (finishing high school). www.physicsresourcebank.com/post/lc-phys...

🧪A look at the stats for Physics Students in Ireland completing their Leaving Cert (finishing high school). www.physicsresourcebank.com/post/lc-phys...

We've known for a while that satellite mega-constellations like SpaceX's Starlink are a problem for optical astronomy. Now, a new survey shows they're also adversely affecting radio astronomy – including at wavelengths supposedly protected by international regs. 🔭⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/starlink-s...

🧪For anybody starting back into physics class this week feeling underprepared..... www.physicsresourcebank.com/post/physics...

🧪bumping this to the science feed....

Interesting analysis - the new specs seem to require a significant amount of "higher order" thinking.

An analysis of new Physics Specs and Bloom's taxonomy, from Richie Moynihan.... www.physicsresourcebank.com/post/new-phy...

🧪For anybody starting back into physics class this week feeling underprepared..... www.physicsresourcebank.com/post/physics...

This @theguardian.com review of AC Benson's diaries criticises them for being filled with inconsequential gossip..... without noting his brother was EF Benson - author of the Mapp and Lucia books, masterpieces of inconsequential gossip. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Last few days of rehearsals.... thenewtheatre.com/event/2025/0...

Rehearsals ongoing!

This @theguardian.com review of AC Benson's diaries criticises them for being filled with inconsequential gossip..... without noting his brother was EF Benson - author of the Mapp and Lucia books, masterpieces of inconsequential gossip. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

I just remebered; Ramayana talks of Vimãnas,flying cities that predate Lucian for over 700 years! Lucian still wrote full interplanetary travel story, I give him credit for that, but I wouldn't be surprised if there is hidden sanscrit scroll retelling Battlestar Galactica. bsky.app/profile/sfer...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Kepler is good for Scientific Revolution SciFi (SRSF?) but Voltaire's MicroMegas is must read SciFi for the Enlightenment. (ESF?)

Even without Lucian,I would argue that "It was all a dream, within a dream" does not count as... Wait... KEPLER WAS BEHIND "INCEPTION"??? 🤯

Austrian farm house

I've been working on our local theatre's archive and came across this gem of a letter from today.....

This is open til the end of August. A great opportunity for aspiring writers to reach an audience of 600 or more...