fundamental weirdness

One of the hardest things in studying either the cosmos or the fundamental structure of matter is wrapping your head around the sizes of thi...

My current pick for "best thing ever" is below... a compilation of NASA videos of the earth from the International Space Station, ...

There is a lovely story by Italo Calvino called "All at One Point" that I often assign in the beginning of my classes on cosmology...

I love love love this animated piece by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt.  In it, they imagine magnetic fields running wild over a laboratory.  ...

If you've ever played with a compass, you have interacted with the Earth's magnetic field.  The Earth acts like a giant bar magnet. ...