Here’s an image that eloquently tells part of the Watershed School story. I took this picture before classes in the morning out in the hall where an impromptu gathering of students made travel down the hall difficult but joyful. I think the emotion comes through clearly on the faces of the students in the image: [...]
This month we’re focusing on evolution, a subject that never fails to intrigue my students.
Physicists who study atoms have long been hunting for a valid “grand unified theory:” something that can encompass electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions at the atomic level. Add gravity to those forces and you could even create a “theory of everything” [...]
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There is much about the teaching profession that is satisfying, but perhaps nothing more so than feeling the buzz of a classroom full of students who are leaning into the subject with enthusiasm and an unslakable thirst for understanding. I’m happy to report that my Conceptual Physics class is alive with that sort of buzz [...]
French Teacher Crystal Robinson and her husband, Chris, recently celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in Africa. They visited the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, visited schools and villages in Zimbabwe and Namibia, and went on a three day safari in each of the following areas : Chobe National Park in [...]
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The Escaton
by Ralph Moore
for the Coffeehouse, Dec. 18, 2009
sometime not long ago it came to us
that the end had finally come
that is: the really last end, final, zip–
as they say in greek: the escaton
because, the supreme ayatollah of iran
was in the great synagogue of jerusalem
dancing around the chanukkah menorah,
the chief rabbi of israel was singing [...]
The other member of the science department, Philip Gerard, has been installing a wood gasification boiler in his home in Thomaston. This hot water heating system boiler burns any kind of wood with 85% efficiency (as compared to 50% efficiency for most non-catalytic wood stoves) and results in virtually no particulates and only water vapor [...]
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Ever wonder what science teachers do in their spare time?
Get a master’s degree, what else? As part of my penultimate semester at Swinburne University’s Swinburne Astronomy Online, I took a course on computational astrophysics where I was able to tie my astrophotography hobby into the investigation of galaxy mergers.
Using the University’s Galaxy Interactions simulator (running [...]
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