Entries by Jonathan
Isaac Physics workshop – Gallery
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 […]
Deliveries
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 […]
Lights, Camera, Image!
Ruth Wiltsher from the Institute of Physics led the Lights, Camera, Image CPD workshop tonight:
Tinkering Thursday: 19th Feb “In the swing of it” pendulum edition
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. […]
Open call for artists: pieces to support exhibition at The Holy Biscuit
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 – Feb 5th 2015
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 […]
CPD Opportunities in February: KS3/4 Light and Colour, Isaac Physics
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 […]
What we’re up to – Jan 21st edition
Things are so hectic we’ve rather forgotten to tell everyone what we’re up to. Here’s the run-down as of this afternoon, Wednesday 21st January 2015, 1400 GMT (you’ll have to imagine the bong! sounds, or if that means nothing to you, here’s the News at Ten opening from the 1970s to play while reading): Carol and Joe are back […]
