But I keep having people meeting me down the corridor or in the cafeteria asking me about “this experiment that may blow up the entire planet“. So I try to calm them down, and tell them that the people at CERN are the kind of people who know what they are doing. After all, these are the same people who invented the World Wide Web and it works pretty well, right?
As far as I am concerned, I am looking forward to visiting CERN next November with my Year 13, and I am quite certain it will not have been sucked up by a black hole by then. And I get even more excited by that after seeing this amazing set of images.
So after you have read all the above, clicked all the links and convinced yourselves that you don’t need to cancel your date on Thursday night, I leave you with this wonderful Large Hadron Rap. Enjoy!
What a good class discussion with my Year 9 this afternoon!
We took some interesting data as to the top speeds that can be achieved by their cars – no, my dear Focus did not go into the conversation – and wondering why cars needed such a speed, if the legal speed is around 120-130 km/h pretty much everywhere in the world. (Yes, Germany is an exception)
So I then asked students to think what new features they should incorporate – in cars, in roads, perhaps even in laws – so that those speeds were accessible, and what the problems are.
We are thinking of the cars of the future.
And some people got there before we did – I just found this series on Discovery Channel called “Future Car“- and it looks certainly interesting! Here are the first 10 minutes of the first episode to get you in the mood…
Now it is your turn – have your say! How do you want your Future Car to be?
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I was talking about the Electromagnetic Spectrum to my Triple Science class this morning, and we stumbled upon this video:
The challenge now is to make our own songs (no matter how silly) about any other Science items that come up in the course… any brave musicians out there?
Oh, and if you want to practise, here is the karaoke version…
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