Category: Hypothesis

Online Teaching

Posted on January 15, 2021 by In Hypothesis
The Science Circle sponsored a colloquium on online education, Experiences of Teaching Online from Different Perspectives, on January 8, 2021. With the mass exodus of students from the physical classroom due to the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic, learning online has become the new norm. Teachers have literally been caught up in a revolution. While online activities…

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Follow the Star

Posted on January 01, 2021 by In Hypothesis
In Peter Pan, Wendy and Peter navigate to Neverland by following the “second star to the right and straight on till morning.” If all problems of navigation were so simple! Down through history sailors and explorers on land have sought functional ways to 1) know where they are at present and 2) to steer a…

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The Pendulum Swings

Posted on December 15, 2020 by In Hypothesis
When I was a kid my Dad took me to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. This is a natural history museum and it had the first planetarium in the area. It also had this giant pendulum right in the main lobby. It was this big ball suspended from a wire that went…

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Webs of Steel

Posted on December 01, 2020 by In Hypothesis
In the TV series, The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon and Leonard, who have PhD’s in physics, are always making fun of Howard who is an engineer. They insist that Howard is not a scientist and that engineers are only glorified technicians. I humbly beg to differ. My dad was an engineer who was a collaborator…

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