We’ve had a predictably hectic first British Science Week here in Think Lab and around the region. We’ll catch up with reporting next week once we’ve had a bit of a lie down in a darkened room, but speaking of darkened: you might have noticed the solar eclipse this morning. We were out on the Northumbria […]
Andrew has invented the ANNOY-O-TRON!! It’s in block capitals and has two exclamation marks, to be particularly annoying. A development of the previous instrumented pendulum, the ANNOY-O-TRON!! features several key advances: Annoyingly many ‘compile / wait / upload / wait / fail / turn off / wait / turn back on / wait’ cycles. Annoying choice of annoyingly loud GarageBand synthesised instrument. […]
Today we’re hosting a teachers’ workshop delivered by Ally Davies of the Isaac Physics project, which aims to support and develop problem-solving skills amongst A-level physics students. It’s deliberately and – we’re finding today – rather gloriously challenging. We’ll have more to say about Isaac Physics in the coming months, but for now, here’s a gallery of […]
Large boxes. Small boxes. Boxes with packing chips. Boxes with inflatable air cushions. Boxes with other boxes inside them. Boxes of boxes. Think Physics is all about the cardboard. And, of course, about the potential contained therein. Take this, for example: In the eyes of a physicist, a rubber mallet allows us to solve all […]
Ruth Wiltsher from the Institute of Physics led the Lights, Camera, Image CPD workshop tonight:
Our charmingly softly-spoken volunteer Andrew is filling in some time before his own physics degree by… actually, I’m not entirely sure why he’s here, but he didn’t seem to mind when I dropped a Bare Conductive Touchboard set in front of him and said ‘Here, get that working.’ We always have things going on we can rope people into. […]
We’ll have more details about this soon, but briefly: We’re looking for installations, films, paintings, photographs, interactive art or sculptures responding to the theme. For an artist’s brief and further details, please see the call at Arts Jobs.
Tinkering Thursday is back. It’s taken us a couple of weeks to shake off the post-Christmas blues and carve out some time, but at last there’s been some activity in the lab. OK, so some of this happened yesterday: ‘Tinkering Thursday’ is more a state of mind than a requirement. The university Physics Society is running a high-altitude […]
We’ve two terrific CPD opportunities coming up late this month, both to be held in our shiny new Think Lab facility at Northumbria University: Please do drop Annie a line if you’ve any further questions, and feel free to pass this information on to anyone else you think might be interested. We’ve information about how to contact Think Physics, and how to […]
