Archive - First Excited State

Global Warming and Weather

Framing a Popular Misconception

Aug 16, 2024 •

December 2023

Math *can* be beautiful...

Dec 3, 2023 •

November 2023

How Far is the Horizon?

Sometimes when I’m in a tall building or a plane, I wonder how far away the horizon is.

Nov 4, 2023

October 2023

How Did We Get From Geocentrism to Heliocentrism?

Buildin' models and changin' minds...

Oct 23, 2023

September 2023

Super Moon Phases Blue Super Blue Phases!

Keyword Bonanza!

Sep 4, 2023

August 2023

Informed Guessing!

Dimensional Analysis, Escape Speed, and the Size of Atoms...

Aug 6, 2023

July 2023

A Million Dollars! How Do You Want It?

Jul 9, 2023

April 2023

March 2023

How we measure distances

Mar 31, 2023

Pi Day Pi Stuff

(maybe) less familiar relationships between pi and e and the primes!

Mar 14, 2023

December 2022

Lighting a little candle for the 1st year of FES (as it's known on the street)

Dec 31, 2022 •

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