Over the half term I ran a school trip to CERN in Geneva. I’ve run the trip many many times now. This time, however, I ran the trip whilst suffering from bronchitis! With fistfuls of cough sweets and antiinflammatories, I got through it. While I was there, I decided to do a few live streams.ContinueContinue reading “The visit to CERN”
Category Archives: General tomfoolery
Fun with Google Translate
A surprising conclusion after playing with Google Translate; or maybe it’s not that surprising.
The most stressful job in the world
… is not teaching. Well, that’s my experience, but I understand everyone and every situation is unique. I have had the good fortune of always teaching in grammar schools (except when I was training). I’ve heard horror stories from colleagues about how stressful it can be working in other schools, managing poor behaviour, jumping thoughContinueContinue reading “The most stressful job in the world”
Maintaining backwards compatibility
A hobby of mine is writing spreadsheets that maintain compatibility with archaic and obsolete software. Recently, a bug was discovered in one of my spreadsheets, which I had to fix by losing compatibility with Excel 97.
On the arrogance of physicists
Physics teachers can look like people whose whole raison d’etre is to catch young people out and proclaim, “ah ha, you were wrong!” In a way, that is precisely what we do.
What a waste of space
I could have got 42% more bauble if they were stacked differently
The five best things about being a physics teacher
Why do I look forward to Monday mornings?
Poll: Weblog post frequency
Do you think the frequency of weblog posts is appropriate? Have your say!
ChatGPT is getting too sassy
The atom joke is also a pet hate of mine because it’s just wrong
First post on a blog
I have recently got back from Edinburgh, where I saw this very large sextant (see picture).
Physics with Keith 