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Let’s remove voltage from the Junior Science syllabus; post #1
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 25, 2010
Dear Mr/Ms Junior Cert Syllabus writer, The time has come to question why the concept of voltage is still on the Junior Cert syllabus. It is by far the most difficult concept for students (and indeed teachers) to grasp. Consider a relevant extract from the Junior Cert Science syllabus Set up a simple electric circuit, [...]
Let’s put the swine flu in perspective
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 29, 2009
- In: health | Uncategorized
- 2 Comments
The total number of deaths in World War One was 16 million. The number of deaths as a result of the Spanish flu which followed in 1918 was somewhere between 30 and 80 million. In the 14th century the Black Death is estimated to have killed 75 million people (including anywhere from 30% to 60% [...]
Apres-budget blues: the new tax-form
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 9, 2009
Currently doing ‘the rounds’ as they say: Thanks James.
Podcast on Leaving Cert definitions
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 16, 2009
After taking so much time to put the last podcast together on neutrinos and then post about it, the hosting site Podomatic went down for maintanance for 24 hours. So I don’t know how that affected your feed, but if you got nothing then for once it wasn’t my fault. Unless the reason it went down [...]
Dissection – great fun entirely
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 4, 2009
I have been experiencing a renaissance in my teaching life ever since I decided to embrace my ignorance on all issues biological (still can’t learn to love Chemistry unfortunately, but there may still be time). We did heart dissections the other day. I spent an evening searching for related videos on youtube. I am a firm [...]
Neutrinos, John Updike and Cosmic Gall
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 3, 2009
I’m suspect it may not have been part of his overall plan, but the death of John Updike coincided (can I say ‘nicely’?) with our class on Neutrinos. There are some strange particles out there, but not many as strange as the neutrino. Here’s what the syllabus has to say on neutrinos: If momentum is [...]
Demonstrating how a tele works
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 29, 2009
Step One: Break the tele Of course you could just shoot it Then we looked at the working of the Cathode Ray Tube in a little more detail: The cool thing about is that it enables us to look at the wave nature of the electron. Given that this (Quantum Theory) is one of the [...]
“History repeats itself because no one was listening the first time.”
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 6, 2008
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” Aldous Huxley “If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the [...]
So who was the first man in space?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 24, 2008
- In: Education | Physics | space | Uncategorized | youtube
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