#igorslife — Public Fediverse posts
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Working in a science basement means that when Randall Munroe, Amber, Benjamin Staffin, and Kevin offer XKCD in 3D….
You are ready.
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Kind of frosty
This magnet was cooled with liquid nitrogen for a demo on paramagnetism.
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My job: spinning sugar into rainbows
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Some days, I carefully test, calibrate, debug, cross-check, and repair.
Some days, I make bats for the Van de Graaff.
Original demo design was published by James Ellingson (The Physics Teacher, v. 26, pg 446, 1988)
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The things I find in the back occasionally surprise me
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When you find a dusty box containing 12 Geissler tubes strung on old paper clips, you don’t ask, “Were they meant to be displayed like this?” You ask, “Where’s my backdrop?”
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When people choose to leave 150-year-old kaleidoscopes within 20 yards of fluorescing chalk and a blacklight, certain consequences are inevitable.
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The perfectly reasonable outcome of finding the prism cabinet