Posts Tagged ‘TED’
Best website ever: runner-up goes to TED.com
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 7, 2010
- In: TED | ted.com
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I am amazed that so many teachers are not aware of TED.com. Tagline: Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world It doesn’t matter what subject you teach – there is something there for you. I like it because it is a counter to the compartmentalisation of knowledge which is so endemic in secondary schools. [...]
Murray Gell-Mann – why I took Physics
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: May 22, 2008
Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel prize-winning scientist who ‘discovered’ quarks and took the word from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, thought that Physics at high school was “the dullest course I had ever taken”, and he only applied to study physics at university “to please my father”. Taken from; When we were kids: how a child becomes a [...]
My tip for the Leaving Cert Physics paper
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: May 13, 2008
- In: Education | Particle Physics | Physics | youtube
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN will be the world’s largest particle accelerator when its construction is completed sometime this Summer. It’s a pretty big deal if you are a particle physicist, and even if not you are still likely to be bombarded with the news when it is finally switched on. ‘Tips’ aren’t [...]
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