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2021- 13 - Apr : Climate decisions in a car-reliant country
- 07 - Jan : A cracked window
- 16 - Dec : Kane Williamson’s ‘soft hands’
- 16 - Oct : Scholarship Physics
- 22 - Sep : Friction and the Anti-lock Braking System
- 25 - Aug : Bad light stopped play
- 18 - Aug : New Zealand’s big, terrible, unwanted surge.
- 13 - Aug : What is climate science?
- 10 - Aug : A battery charge meter that actually works
- 06 - Aug : The Beirut explosion shockwave
- 16 - Jul : All-pervading Waikato dampness
- 19 - May : Teaching physics without the physic[al]
- 01 - May : Why I hate Rube Goldberg Machines
- 17 - Apr : Pass the pigs – ad (almost) infinitum
- 07 - Apr : Expanding houses
- 23 - Mar : This is exponential growth
- 03 - Mar : A beginning of semester corona-rant
- 20 - Feb : Mucky rain
- 10 - Feb : Another BIG idea about physics
- 24 - Jan : The swimming pool paradox
- 21 - Jan : BIG idea physics
- 09 - Jan : What a difference the decimal point makes
- 27 - Nov : When you are your own opposite
- 20 - Nov : Is car washing so bad we need to ban it?
- 13 - Nov : Vortices and the end of Nemo
- 08 - Nov : How to cheat at university
- 29 - Oct : Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
- 23 - Oct : Counting Barretts
- 17 - Oct : If you can’t measure it, does it exist?
- 20 - Aug : When the power goes off
- 13 - Aug : The lying dashboard (part 2)
- 07 - Aug : The lying dashboard
- 30 - Jul : Quantum cryptography
- 22 - Jul : Language in physics teaching
- 13 - May : The bed of nails
- 25 - Feb : An optics puzzle
- 22 - Feb : Measuring the temperature
- 18 - Feb : Where will cyclone Oma go?
- 04 - Feb : Alice the camel
- 11 - Jan : Why you shouldn’t eat beef
- 17 - Dec : In praise of fixable appliances
- 12 - Dec : Colour blindness and Bayes’ theorem
- 07 - Dec : Colour vision
- 26 - Nov : Hydrophobic cabbage
- 15 - Nov : Cell phones give you cancer. Yeah, right.
- 15 - Oct : Static hair
- 25 - Sep : Sucking up Spaghetti
- 21 - Sep : More strange quantum stuff
- 20 - Sep : Relative Velocity
- 07 - Aug : The problem with undergraduate textbooks…
- 16 - Jul : Expensoheat
- 06 - Jul : Jigsaw puzzles
- 02 - Jul : Back to the blog
- 24 - Jul : Amazing lenses
- 17 - Jul : Sycamore seeds and wind turbines
- 13 - Jul : I do not appreciate people trying to kill me
- 11 - Apr : Incey-wincey spider…
- 06 - Apr : Improving gender balance in physics
- 04 - Apr : Bell ringing
- 28 - Mar : The indeterminate cheese flake
- 14 - Mar : Physics is a science. Or maybe not.
- 10 - Mar : Weather records
- 07 - Mar : Blowing potholes
- 03 - Mar : Trusting someone’s engineering calculations
- 15 - Feb : Where Western Australia’s money comes from
- 09 - Feb : The Perth climate
- 07 - Feb : Physicsstop back in business
- 04 - Jul : Fog, concrete, plus no heating for two days
- 20 - Jun : An outrageous laminar flow video
- 26 - May : Glass transition of the parking permit
- 09 - May : Probability madness
- 24 - Apr : The Australian Synchrotron
- 15 - Apr : Every square millimetre counts
- 07 - Apr : Blog-off, at least for a while
- 09 - Mar : The universal joint
- 26 - Feb : The storm surge
- 24 - Feb : The problem with science communication
- 12 - Feb : Gravitational Waves
- 25 - Jan : The world’s most beautiful equation
- 22 - Jan : Don’t confuse accuracy with precision
- 12 - Jan : Weighing magnetic properties
- 18 - Dec : Tip or slide?
- 14 - Dec : On the track at the Avantidrome
- 07 - Dec : Is dark matter really dark?
- 27 - Nov : And the Nobel Prize in physics goes to…
- 20 - Nov : Gender stereotyping and physics
- 13 - Nov : Feedback, feedback and more feedback
- 05 - Nov : Attacked by an umbrella
- 22 - Oct : Global Positioning Stupidity
- 14 - Oct : Tanker physics
- 05 - Oct : Plants in circular motion
- 25 - Sep : If gravity increased…
- 03 - Sep : A small maths lesson for our prime minister
- 03 - Aug : Pluto as you’ve not seen it before
- 16 - Jul : Calculating pi with darts
- 13 - Jul : A light puzzle
- 07 - Jul : NZIP2015 Highlights
- 01 - Jul : High-tech, Low-tech, planetary observations.
- 23 - Jun : Tips on organizing a conference
- 17 - Jun : The equation of time strikes again
- 10 - Jun : Two great talks coming up in Hamilton
- 20 - May : Lenz’s law – at 3 tesla
- 18 - May : Special relativity – not so easy to grasp
- 12 - May : Developing assessment literacy
- 06 - May : A blatant plug for the NZIP2015 conference
- 28 - Apr : Messing up the test: the next installment
- 15 - Apr : A lot of huffing and puffing
- 23 - Mar : How high is a winning cricket score?
- 10 - Mar : Why does time go forwards?
- 02 - Mar : The arrow of time
- 18 - Feb : First a cricket fan, second a physicist
- 23 - Jan : Seeing spots before my eyes
- 15 - Jan : Modes of a square plate
- 11 - Dec : How do you teach creativity in physics?
- 14 - Nov : Archimedes principle: think carefully
- 07 - Nov : Help! There’s no equation to use
- 29 - Oct : Toddler does physics-art
- 22 - Oct : Robot racing
- 09 - Oct : Getting the terminology correct
- 30 - Sep : Circling line-following robots
- 05 - Sep : What do students expect at university?
- 03 - Sep : Magnetic fields and USB sticks
- 01 - Sep : Why you need a physicist
- 19 - Aug : Engineering, lego and line followers
- 30 - Jul : Weather and statistics
- 17 - Jul : Saddle-points and today’s weather
- 15 - Jul : Check those approximations
- 04 - Jul : Going down the plughole
- 19 - Jun : Threshold concepts bite back
- 13 - Jun : Managing ignition timing
- 11 - Jun : When whizz-bang isn’t whizz-bang enough
- 04 - Jun : Dismantling the health and safety pyramid
- 27 - May : The gearbox problem
- 20 - May : Seeing in the dark
- 16 - May : A closing thought for Friday
- 15 - May : When does collaboration become collusion?
- 08 - May : Two is a big number – revisited
- 30 - Apr : Password entropy
- 28 - Apr : Don’t trust the machine
- 04 - Apr : Explaining the blatantly obvious
- 01 - Apr : Apparent forces
- 17 - Mar : The advantage of a transponder
- 12 - Mar : A fun experiment to try at your desk
- 11 - Mar : What makes something show on radar?
- 04 - Mar : In cyberspace no one can hear you scream
- 03 - Mar : Sorry I’ve blogged-off
- 21 - Feb : Dem Cables
- 19 - Feb : A load of rubbish
- 11 - Feb : Oh dear Mr Kohli
- 04 - Feb : Nanotechnology, asbestos and measurement
- 24 - Jan : Scholarship Physics, 2013-style
- 17 - Jan : When stationary is fast
- 14 - Jan : Notation notation notation
- 09 - Jan : Gender-based subject choices
- 08 - Jan : How big is an atom?
- 13 - Dec : Happy Christmas
- 09 - Dec : Assessment goes wrong
- 06 - Dec : Heat and water and making nappies
- 28 - Nov : The superphone
- 27 - Nov : Thermodynamics of learning
- 19 - Nov : Who is doing the observing?
- 05 - Nov : The (robot) hand is faster than the eye
- 21 - Oct : Hawking radiation in the lab
- 16 - Oct : My car is cold
- 09 - Oct : The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to….
- 04 - Oct : What is physics?
- 27 - Sep : Precision Cosmology – Yeah, Right!
- 26 - Sep : Off to conference
- 19 - Sep : Relative velocity America’s Cup style
- 13 - Sep : How do I be more creative in my research?
- 11 - Sep : Who’s the best teacher?
- 09 - Sep : Lack of pressure
- 02 - Sep : Temperature is not Heat
- 16 - Aug : Torsional pendulums and earthquakes
- 15 - Aug : Version control
- 08 - Aug : Hotspot and Silicone Tape
- 05 - Aug : Gravity goes downwards
- 01 - Aug : All classes are different
- 26 - Jul : My equipment doesn’t work…
- 22 - Jul : The ‘Australian’ Earthquake
- 22 - Jul : What’s in a colour?
- 08 - Jul : Where in the world?
- 25 - Jun : Dishwasher dynamics
- 14 - Jun : Quantum mechanics: Reality is back
- 11 - Jun : An aliasing example
- 05 - Jun : The causes of tidal waves (yeah, right)
- 31 - May : Don’t cook the baby
- 28 - May : The ticker-tape car
- 24 - May : Units – they just don’t go away
- 21 - May : What does electricity cost?
- 16 - May : The bubble raft and lattice defects
- 09 - May : You know you are having a bad day when…
- 08 - May : Don’t miss the eclipse (hee hee)
- 06 - May : The sleep machine
- 02 - May : Big and small
- 26 - Apr : A bigger splash
- 16 - Apr : Turning moments
- 10 - Apr : Watch the students
- 03 - Apr : The amazing vacuum microwave
- 22 - Mar : It’s what the learner knows…
- 21 - Mar : Is maths real?
- 15 - Mar : Don’t underestimate the estimate
- 08 - Mar : Blackwater rafting
- 01 - Mar : Dispersion in water waves
- 22 - Feb : Mega- and nano-everything
- 15 - Feb : Teaching how to think physics
- 12 - Feb : 2012 Scholarship exam finished
- 08 - Feb : Shock fronts: literature and surfing
- 05 - Feb : When inifinity isn’t infinite
- 31 - Jan : Weight and lift: Chicken style
- 30 - Jan : Tests: Assessment for learning
- 24 - Jan : Scholarship exam 2012: Videos now uploaded
- 23 - Jan : Structural failure: Jam yesterday
- 18 - Jan : The power of steam
- 10 - Jan : Nonsense maths
- 07 - Jan : The sneeze jet
- 17 - Dec : Happy Christmas
- 10 - Dec : Verification and Validation
- 04 - Dec : Celebrating Teaching Day
- 28 - Nov : Undiscovery in physics
- 22 - Nov : Seeing circular polarization
- 20 - Nov : Validity in experiment
- 15 - Nov : Pinhole cameras and eclipses
- 13 - Nov : In a not-quite symmetric world
- 08 - Nov : A tip for the scholarship physics exam
- 06 - Nov : My top two exam tips
- 01 - Nov : Pepper’s Ghost
- 30 - Oct : Look out for the eclipse, 14 November
- 26 - Oct : Need more grunt
- 18 - Oct : Experimental physics is easy on paper
- 16 - Oct : Why you shouldn’t cite Wikipedia
- 16 - Oct : Goodbye to the kittycat
- 12 - Oct : Considering a new car?
- 04 - Oct : Physics is different for girls…
- 01 - Oct : Distant galaxies and hobbits
- 25 - Sep : Expensive cat physics
- 19 - Sep : What do students make of physics and maths…
- 11 - Sep : The Higgs Boson for not-so-dummies
- 07 - Sep : How many significant figures?
- 05 - Sep : Early warnings of a change of state
- 03 - Sep : Static electricity
- 24 - Aug : Time travel
- 21 - Aug : The wonders of concrete
- 13 - Aug : Equipment failure
- 08 - Aug : Some thoughts from teaching appraisals
- 30 - Jul : The shortest distance between two points
- 25 - Jul : Back to work
- 10 - Jul : What 3am looks like
- 02 - Jul : Baby!
- 22 - Jun : edX: What is the future of universities?
- 20 - Jun : The fast Fourier transform
- 13 - Jun : Another bad physics joke
- 11 - Jun : Sabbaticals
- 06 - Jun : Transit of Venus
- 05 - Jun : The dangers of wrapping Christmas presents
- 31 - May : Some thoughts while stuck in traffic
- 25 - May : Is it cold enough yet?
- 23 - May : Have you checked your tyres recently?
- 17 - May : A refreshing approach to science
- 14 - May : Why going downhill is hard work
- 10 - May : Electromagnetic fields and the brain
- 08 - May : Virga
- 07 - May : Different place – same old problems
- 04 - May : How to cheat aging
- 30 - Apr : Mysterious power generation
- 26 - Apr : Experiments with known answers
- 24 - Apr : Convection and continuity
- 18 - Apr : The most interesting “photo” I’ve ever taken
- 11 - Apr : The test with talking in
- 04 - Apr : What are school qualifications for?
- 02 - Apr : Benefits of student assignments
- 24 - Mar : Impossible angular momentum
- 23 - Mar : A rant for Friday afternoon
- 21 - Mar : Techno-failure
- 19 - Mar : Dumping light into space
- 15 - Mar : A solution to the world’s energy problems?
- 12 - Mar : A Threshold Concept
- 10 - Mar : PhysicsStop is five hundred!
- 08 - Mar : Newton’s laws in action
- 06 - Mar : Putting your life into perspective
- 05 - Mar : Time well spent?
- 01 - Mar : Quantum interference
- 28 - Feb : Some good news
- 27 - Feb : Peer review bites back
- 23 - Feb : Guilty of order-of-magnitude neglect
- 23 - Feb : Neutrino problem solved?
- 21 - Feb : Faster-than-light neutrinos again
- 20 - Feb : Unstable weather
- 16 - Feb : Hitting sixes
- 13 - Feb : Just WHERE is the South Pole?
- 11 - Feb : Knowing what quality looks like
- 08 - Feb : Free fall
- 31 - Jan : Are you a realist or a relativist?
- 27 - Jan : A physicist’s lament
- 25 - Jan : Quantum Chicken
- 23 - Jan : Potential energy and climbing upwards
- 17 - Jan : Don’t try this one at home
- 16 - Jan : Getting the facts straight
- 13 - Jan : Neurons or chickens?
- 11 - Jan : Keeping it cold
- 05 - Jan : Back in the pool…
- 04 - Jan : Mossbauer Spectroscopy
- 29 - Dec : Don’t let the teacher get away with silence
- 15 - Dec : Happy Christmas
- 14 - Dec : Was that a Higgs I just saw?
- 11 - Dec : Momentum conservation again
- 09 - Dec : When is my result incorrect?
- 07 - Dec : Journey to the centre of the washing machine
- 02 - Dec : Physics and Engineering Education
- 29 - Nov : What’s the buzz?
- 28 - Nov : Hot water
- 24 - Nov : Rena: Where’s the physics?
- 21 - Nov : Elections and antimatter
- 17 - Nov : You know you need a new car when…
- 15 - Nov : Bending of beams
- 10 - Nov : Electricity Show
- 09 - Nov : Thermal expansion again
- 07 - Nov : Bugs and more bugs
- 02 - Nov : Where maths and physics gets you…
- 31 - Oct : The curious problem of assessing physics
- 25 - Oct : The continuity equation
- 21 - Oct : Old and new
- 20 - Oct : Opposite charges repel, don’t they?
- 17 - Oct : The varied world of physics
- 14 - Oct : Whose fault is bad science understanding?
- 12 - Oct : Misleading reflections
- 10 - Oct : How to win a Nobel Prize in Physics
- 06 - Oct : Getting students to do your work for you
- 04 - Oct : Student opinion counts
- 30 - Sep : Teh most bestest fizx lolcat eva?
- 29 - Sep : Where will a PhD take me?
- 24 - Sep : Faster than light and Italian earthquakes
- 23 - Sep : Why are radio telescopes so big?
- 21 - Sep : Scratch cards – the sequel
- 20 - Sep : The end of cold dark matter?
- 16 - Sep : Scratch Cards
- 15 - Sep : A photon walks into a hotel…
- 13 - Sep : The problem with having odd-shaped balls…
- 09 - Sep : Friday afternoon before the Cup starts
- 08 - Sep : Thermoeconomics
- 05 - Sep : Computer modelling of aircraft boarding
- 01 - Sep : Trouble of enormous magnitude
- 30 - Aug : Exams that you can talk in
- 26 - Aug : The proton and neutron: same and different
- 24 - Aug : Crop circles
- 23 - Aug : Momentum conservation
- 18 - Aug : Turning into physicists…
- 16 - Aug : Four legs good
- 14 - Aug : The dangers of reflective blogging
- 12 - Aug : Friction: Stick or Slip?
- 10 - Aug : NZ Scholarship physics
- 07 - Aug : Teaching: Theory or practice?
- 05 - Aug : Sonic anemometer
- 03 - Aug : Feedback from students
- 01 - Aug : Natural units
- 28 - Jul : Sorry for the lack of entries…
- 24 - Jul : Thermal expansion
- 22 - Jul : Teaching contradictions
- 19 - Jul : The inverse femtobarn
- 14 - Jul : Hot air rises
- 12 - Jul : Teaching new things
- 11 - Jul : The Faraday Suit
- 08 - Jul : Apparent weight? Apparently not
- 06 - Jul : Electricity and heat
- 05 - Jul : Rockets
- 01 - Jul : Projectile trajectories
- 22 - Jun : Sandpile physics
- 21 - Jun : Force, momentum and umbrellas
- 16 - Jun : Troublesome Turbines
- 14 - Jun : Diode Flavours
- 02 - Jun : Growing as a teacher
- 31 - May : Schlieren imaging
- 27 - May : Wet house, dry house?
- 24 - May : The science logbook
- 19 - May : The physics of slugs
- 17 - May : Physicists on film
- 13 - May : Paint
- 10 - May : Student DIY
- 09 - May : Three heads are better than one
- 06 - May : My first go with Votapedia
- 04 - May : Piezoelectricity
- 03 - May : Superconductivity turns one hundred
- 29 - Apr : Elecmystery
- 26 - Apr : Chocolate problems
- 23 - Apr : Happy Easter
- 18 - Apr : Formative assessment
- 14 - Apr : Rotating aircraft
- 12 - Apr : The wonderful logarithm (or blog on log)
- 08 - Apr : Information overload regarding Fukushima
- 06 - Apr : Carbon dioxide or methane?
- 04 - Apr : I hate statistics
- 30 - Mar : Light fantastic
- 29 - Mar : Compartmentalized learning?
- 25 - Mar : Correlation or no correlation?
- 22 - Mar : Science, openness, and conspiracy theory
- 17 - Mar : Radiation confusion
- 16 - Mar : Speed of sound
- 14 - Mar : The mysterious centripetal force
- 10 - Mar : Bessel functions
- 08 - Mar : How many samples do I take?
- 04 - Mar : Reflecting
- 28 - Feb : [withdrawn] Some weblinks
- 24 - Feb : If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
- 22 - Feb : Slowdown in activity
- 17 - Feb : Uses of Liquid Nitrogen
- 15 - Feb : Physics discoveries
- 14 - Feb : What’s CERN twittering about?
- 12 - Feb : The sock monster
- 10 - Feb : The bed of nails
- 08 - Feb : Pseudo-science in high places
- 04 - Feb : Science Faction – a great story
- 02 - Feb : Forces and other tedious stuff
- 31 - Jan : Kinetic and Potential Energy
- 28 - Jan : Another weight-based challenge
- 26 - Jan : Unhelpful instructions
- 25 - Jan : Fighting global warming with old technology
- 21 - Jan : Measurement beats guesswork
- 19 - Jan : Teach science understanding, not recipes
- 17 - Jan : Wood and water
- 14 - Jan : Electricity from water – the exciting way
- 12 - Jan : DNA sequencing in one easy step?
- 10 - Jan : “It’s a rain forest, expect rain…”
- 07 - Jan : Mirror trickery
- 05 - Jan : Sink or swim?
- 21 - Dec : Happy Christmas
- 20 - Dec : Apology
- 15 - Dec : Some data from ATLAS at the LHC
- 13 - Dec : Experimenting
- 11 - Dec : Climate change and conferences
- 02 - Dec : Real Science in easy chunks
- 29 - Nov : Earth currents
- 26 - Nov : Analogue Computing
- 24 - Nov : Are cats smarter than dogs?
- 23 - Nov : Wallpaper lattice confusion
- 20 - Nov : Symmetry, groups, and wallpaper
- 17 - Nov : Learning outcomes
- 16 - Nov : Negative Resistance
- 12 - Nov : Mouse-be-gone (-be-gone)
- 11 - Nov : Electromagnetic Pest Repellent
- 09 - Nov : Pipes and water pressure
- 08 - Nov : The3is in Three final
- 06 - Nov : So you think you’re good at mechanics?
- 05 - Nov : Aircraft insulation
- 03 - Nov : Unconventional projectiles
- 01 - Nov : What’s cooking at the LHC?
- 29 - Oct : A daylight conundrum
- 27 - Oct : Sound proofing by closing a door
- 26 - Oct : Electrical Noise
- 22 - Oct : Pendulum mayhem
- 21 - Oct : Sticky Milk Powder
- 20 - Oct : The3is in Three is Back
- 18 - Oct : Diffraction
- 14 - Oct : Maths and Physics
- 12 - Oct : Dealing with random things
- 09 - Oct : Scholarship exams – answer the question
- 07 - Oct : The smart tap – the plot thickens
- 06 - Oct : How fictional is fiction?
- 05 - Oct : 2.5 or 2.2 percent?
- 01 - Oct : Let there be light
- 29 - Sep : For example…
- 28 - Sep : Dimensional analysis
- 24 - Sep : Windy Hamilton
- 22 - Sep : Quantum finance
- 21 - Sep : Clever lenses
- 18 - Sep : Seal level rises
- 16 - Sep : The academic poster
- 15 - Sep : Measuring the speed of light
- 14 - Sep : Why are eggs egg-shaped?
- 10 - Sep : Pity the poor PhD student…
- 07 - Sep : Earthquakes and Polarized light
- 06 - Sep : Irrelevant physics
- 02 - Sep : Conferencing
- 23 - Aug : Mid-semester break
- 22 - Aug : Is medical physics worth the cost?
- 20 - Aug : Good science speaks for itself
- 18 - Aug : Computer models
- 17 - Aug : Climate data (yes, again)
- 12 - Aug : The smart tap
- 12 - Aug : Ice on windows
- 10 - Aug : Cold and humid
- 09 - Aug : More physics with aluminium foil
- 05 - Aug : Some thoughts on assessment
- 04 - Aug : High technology tearoom
- 02 - Aug : Lithium
- 30 - Jul : Put your trust in a computer…
- 29 - Jul : Engine oil and lubrication
- 27 - Jul : Newton’s third law
- 26 - Jul : Mindless Monday
- 23 - Jul : Fluctuations in Earth’s magnetic field
- 21 - Jul : Aaaarrrhh first year
- 19 - Jul : Infra-red and heat
- 15 - Jul : Look after your graduates
- 14 - Jul : Peak Oil, peak platinum, peak physics
- 13 - Jul : Yuk physics
- 09 - Jul : Hands on science
- 05 - Jul : Trouble brewing
- 03 - Jul : A new element!
- 01 - Jul : It’s cold outside…
- 30 - Jun : Group intelligence
- 28 - Jun : Patience in experimenting
- 24 - Jun : The essence of physics
- 23 - Jun : Claims on the electromagnetic spectrum
- 21 - Jun : Why conventional astronomy is rubbish
- 18 - Jun : It never works when you need it to
- 15 - Jun : What shall I blog about today?
- 10 - Jun : What equation do I need?
- 08 - Jun : Lots of flashing LEDs
- 06 - Jun : Where the smart money is…
- 03 - Jun : Sexy science (or not)
- 02 - Jun : Quarks Galore
- 30 - May : Bending light
- 28 - May : Why you need to proof read
- 25 - May : Does the future affect the present?
- 22 - May : Going Naked
- 20 - May : What spin would you like with that?
- 17 - May : How obvious is technology?
- 12 - May : Stunning Physics
- 04 - May : Offline
- 28 - Apr : Making sense of those numbers
- 26 - Apr : A quarter of a thousand
- 24 - Apr : Another exponential decay example
- 22 - Apr : Can you believe this guy?
- 20 - Apr : Some cardboard pictures
- 20 - Apr : Cardboard City
- 16 - Apr : No such thing as a free lunch?
- 14 - Apr : Physics is everywhere
- 12 - Apr : Collisions at the LHC
- 01 - Apr : Results of the mobile phone experiment
- 31 - Mar : Goodbye old technology and hello new
- 30 - Mar : Things that don’t like water
- 26 - Mar : What goes up… must come down
- 24 - Mar : Mind games for physicists
- 22 - Mar : The invisibility cloak
- 19 - Mar : Mobile phone physics
- 17 - Mar : ET home phone
- 15 - Mar : My kind of blog
- 12 - Mar : Copper Conducting Considerable Current
- 11 - Mar : The LHC ticks onwards
- 10 - Mar : Fallstreak cloud
- 08 - Mar : Heat transfer within edible objects
- 05 - Mar : Tectonic Plates and Angular Momentum
- 02 - Mar : Science research works
- 01 - Mar : Just what did Rutherford get up to?
- 26 - Feb : Ethicis in physics
- 25 - Feb : Appraisal doesn’t equal Evaluation
- 24 - Feb : What’s so dangerous about high voltage?
- 23 - Feb : Centrifugal carrot
- 19 - Feb : The wrong kind of question
- 18 - Feb : How does a physicist think?
- 16 - Feb : I hate maths…
- 15 - Feb : Technology wins again…
- 11 - Feb : Does my teaching work?
- 10 - Feb : Dynamic equilibrium
- 08 - Feb : Where the money is
- 05 - Feb : Two is a big number
- 04 - Feb : The rise and rise of the science journal
- 03 - Feb : Interesting but useless fact
- 01 - Feb : Remember your units
- 29 - Jan : What lightning does to your television
- 28 - Jan : Wild weather in Waikato
- 27 - Jan : Say goodbye to the drill…
- 25 - Jan : Heads I win, tails you lose
- 21 - Jan : Can you feel the cold?
- 19 - Jan : BBQ Physics
- 18 - Jan : Useful origami (and wine bottles)
- 14 - Jan : Dark Matter and statistics
- 13 - Jan : Large, heavy objects
- 11 - Jan : Ice and the freezer
- 06 - Jan : The importance of physics
- 05 - Jan : Back to the long-neglected blog
- 26 - Dec : Simple Machines
- 23 - Dec : The We(s)t Coast
- 15 - Dec : LHC happenings
- 12 - Dec : Summer holidays…
- 10 - Dec : Climate change
- 09 - Dec : Small Transistors
- 07 - Dec : A boost to my vocabulary
- 04 - Dec : Waves in a plasma
- 03 - Dec : Rainbows
- 01 - Dec : Rocket Science and Spam
- 30 - Nov : Orbits
- 27 - Nov : Dazed and confused
- 26 - Nov : How to get publicity
- 24 - Nov : Blink and you miss it
- 24 - Nov : The final frontier
- 22 - Nov : You heard it hear second
- 20 - Nov : Prisoner’s Dilemma
- 18 - Nov : Bus problems
- 16 - Nov : Quietly hopeful at CERN
- 15 - Nov : Random use of the word ‘exponential’
- 12 - Nov : What’s that buzzing?
- 10 - Nov : Group dynamics
- 09 - Nov : Bring on the computer
- 06 - Nov : Happy Birthday
- 05 - Nov : What’s the catch?
- 03 - Nov : The endless pace of technology
- 02 - Nov : Beyond cornflakes
- 30 - Oct : The3is in three final
- 29 - Oct : Using words is OK
- 28 - Oct : Anti-gravity
- 27 - Oct : Magnets attract, right?
- 24 - Oct : No I don’t have the LHC timetable
- 23 - Oct : Virtual field trips
- 21 - Oct : Monopoles, Dipoles, Quadrupoles and the like
- 20 - Oct : Gravitational Waves
- 19 - Oct : The3is in Three
- 17 - Oct : The physicist joke
- 15 - Oct : More chemistry-bashing
- 14 - Oct : Large Hadron Collider activity
- 13 - Oct : Everything’s relative
- 12 - Oct : Who owns the moon?
- 09 - Oct : Miscellaneous thoughts on physics research
- 08 - Oct : Approximately speaking
- 02 - Oct : Brief pause
- 02 - Oct : Teaching research
- 30 - Sep : All your favourite science blogs
- 30 - Sep : I hate thunderstorms
- 28 - Sep : Climate engineering
- 25 - Sep : The greenhouse effect
- 24 - Sep : Fishics
- 22 - Sep : All those strange physics symbols
- 21 - Sep : Risky things
- 18 - Sep : The end of the week…
- 17 - Sep : Scholarship physics questions
- 16 - Sep : Geometric algebra
- 14 - Sep : Hubble pictures – better than Milford Sound?
- 11 - Sep : What has log of -1 to do with a blog?
- 10 - Sep : Physicsstop breakage
- 09 - Sep : Complex numbers
- 08 - Sep : Fog
- 06 - Sep : Peer review
- 03 - Sep : Pesky dishwasher
- 03 - Sep : Why is the sky blue?
- 01 - Sep : The Electric Car and metrics
- 31 - Aug : Blue sky
- 28 - Aug : The scientific method
- 27 - Aug : Landing gear failure
- 26 - Aug : What’s happening in Geneva?
- 21 - Aug : Science Fair
- 20 - Aug : Zombie attack
- 19 - Aug : Transformers
- 17 - Aug : Blue squid
- 14 - Aug : Sophie’s law of gravitation
- 11 - Aug : More energy issues
- 07 - Aug : As if by magic…
- 06 - Aug : Lousy rotten internet
- 05 - Aug : Is there gravity in space?
- 03 - Aug : The dangers of children’s books
- 31 - Jul : Simple things updated
- 31 - Jul : Why do we do masses on springs?
- 29 - Jul : The electricity man cometh…
- 27 - Jul : The reductionist physicist
- 24 - Jul : Apollo
- 22 - Jul : Who turned out the lights?
- 21 - Jul : Weight, Newton and the cat
- 17 - Jul : Equation of time strikes again
- 16 - Jul : Non-destructive testing
- 14 - Jul : Back to Rotorua
- 13 - Jul : Angels and Demons
- 10 - Jul : Coffee cup physics
- 08 - Jul : No more energy saving lightbulbs…
- 07 - Jul : Read the question!!!!
- 06 - Jul : Biology and the second law of thermodynamics
- 02 - Jul : Toothpaste tubes are important
- 01 - Jul : PhysicsStop is 100
- 30 - Jun : Ant attack
- 27 - Jun : What’s the time?
- 25 - Jun : The problem of longitude
- 23 - Jun : Greenwich
- 21 - Jun : Catching a cricket ball
- 19 - Jun : The cabin baggage challenge…
- 18 - Jun : Fuel consumption
- 05 - Jun : Pause in activities
- 04 - Jun : Thermal expansion
- 03 - Jun : Compton scattering
- 01 - Jun : Einstein, Eddington, and that Eclipse
- 31 - May : Why you don’t want to be a tight-head prop
- 29 - May : Biomechanics
- 27 - May : Football physics. Whatever next?
- 25 - May : Why I am not a chemist
- 21 - May : Slippery ice
- 19 - May : Cookery physics revisited
- 15 - May : Science Fraud
- 15 - May : It’s no fun any more
- 13 - May : Look no wires
- 12 - May : Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
- 07 - May : NZ Scholarships – hot exam tip number 2
- 04 - May : What’s in a name?
- 02 - May : Huygens’ Clocks
- 29 - Apr : Flu
- 27 - Apr : Technology
- 24 - Apr : Three is a big number
- 23 - Apr : More than a googol things to count
- 21 - Apr : The fate of the earth (We’re all doomed)
- 20 - Apr : Ninety Eight, Ninety Nine, A Hundred…
- 13 - Apr : Hot exam tip number 1
- 09 - Apr : Brief pause…
- 08 - Apr : Luck or good judgment?
- 07 - Apr : The gravity satellite
- 07 - Apr : Am I just a skeptic, or what?
- 05 - Apr : Goodbye summertime
- 03 - Apr : Money, money, money
- 01 - Apr : A sun in your own living room
- 31 - Mar : Off-the-wall thought
- 30 - Mar : Here come the advertisers again
- 27 - Mar : The unsolvable problem
- 26 - Mar : Below average
- 23 - Mar : Equinox
- 21 - Mar : Steering problems again?
- 20 - Mar : The versatile physicist
- 17 - Mar : Analogies
- 14 - Mar : Dangerously good stuff
- 13 - Mar : Be afraid, be very afraid
- 10 - Mar : The end of summer
- 09 - Mar : Waves
- 06 - Mar : Mass and the Higgs Boson
- 03 - Mar : Whatever happened to the LHC?
- 27 - Feb : The nature of the beast
- 25 - Feb : The nor’wester
- 23 - Feb : Hot air rises
- 20 - Feb : Seeing underwater
- 18 - Feb : What’s your favourite planet?
- 17 - Feb : The illuminating analemma
- 16 - Feb : Space-Junk
- 14 - Feb : Kitchen Physics
- 13 - Feb : B.B.Q. Salmonella
- 10 - Feb : General Relativity minus the maths
- 09 - Feb : Why Einstein?
- 06 - Feb : Who’s the greatest?
- 05 - Feb : More on road physics
- 03 - Feb : Corrugated roads
- 30 - Jan : Attractive scenery
- 29 - Jan : Clean and Green. Yeah, right!
- 27 - Jan : Up and down
- 27 - Jan : Time to get out of the water
- 22 - Jan : Yet more swimming pool physics
- 21 - Jan : More swimming pool physics
- 21 - Jan : Swimming pool physics
- 14 - Jan : Add one tablespoon of golden syrup…
- 12 - Jan : Levitation
- 08 - Jan : The second law of thermodynamics
- 06 - Jan : The first law of thermodynamics
- 05 - Jan : It’s cold out there
- 12 - Dec : Going around in circles
- 09 - Dec : How far can I see?
- 08 - Dec : Taking physics one step too far
- 06 - Dec : In the sun
- 05 - Dec : Zzzzzz
- 02 - Dec : Beam me up…
- 28 - Nov : Brief pause…
- 27 - Nov : Traffic
- 25 - Nov : Water, water everywhere
- 24 - Nov : Don’t try this at home
- 21 - Nov : Magic pixies
- 20 - Nov : Under pressure
- 18 - Nov : What’s in a name?
- 14 - Nov : The Large Hadron Collider
- 13 - Nov : Reflections on reflections
- 12 - Nov : Power to the people
- 10 - Nov : Newton in action
- 07 - Nov : Physicists are normal people too
- 06 - Nov : PhysicsStop – the beginning