Philosophy
Here in the US, we seem to be obsessed with guns, with our right to own them, and with the ridiculous fear that the government is going to try to take them away from us. Predictably, the people who are most vociferous on the issue are not exactly luminaries and scholars with a solid understanding of constitutional law and jurisprudence, which is really putting it mildly and generously...
But since this is a blog dedicated (for the most part) to sharing education and interesting ideas, why don't we take this obsession with guns to watch someone shoot an AK-47 underwater and, most importantly, to learn some fascinating principles of physics to understand what it is that we have just seen?
Explosions and physics... awesome!
- Jim Jefferies On U.s. Gun Control
Whenever a shooting massacre takes place in the US, and we raise the question of whether there ought to be some kind of regulation on fully automatic assault rifles and machine guns, conservatives lose their shit (about the regulation, of course, not...
- The Real Victims Of Gun Control?
The number of gun-related deaths in America, at least compared to civilized countries, is out of control (as you can tell from the poster to the right), but when it comes to reasonable debate, somehow we just lose it. We are a freedom-loving people, or...
- According To Conservatives, The Aftermath Of A Massive Shooting Spree Is Not The Time To Talk About Guns?
I get that we in America have a constitutional right to bear arms and own weapons, but since we also love our Declaration of Independence, we also believe that we have a right to life. Now, these don't have to be mutually exclusive, so you'd think...
- Physicist's Use Of Ancient Lead Is Not Making Archaeologists Happy
"Lead extracted today is naturally contaminated with the isotope Pb-210, which prevents it from being used as shielding for particle detectors".... Is this true? "Use of ancient lead in modern physics experiments ignites debate" November 29th, 2013...
- Sir William Henry Bragg
Sir William Henry Bragg July 2nd, 1862 to March 12th, 1942 Sir William Henry Bragg was a pioneer British scientist in solid-state physics who was a joint winner (with his son Sir Lawrence Bragg) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 for research on...
Philosophy
Shooting an AK-47 Underwater
But since this is a blog dedicated (for the most part) to sharing education and interesting ideas, why don't we take this obsession with guns to watch someone shoot an AK-47 underwater and, most importantly, to learn some fascinating principles of physics to understand what it is that we have just seen?
Explosions and physics... awesome!
- Jim Jefferies On U.s. Gun Control
Whenever a shooting massacre takes place in the US, and we raise the question of whether there ought to be some kind of regulation on fully automatic assault rifles and machine guns, conservatives lose their shit (about the regulation, of course, not...
- The Real Victims Of Gun Control?
The number of gun-related deaths in America, at least compared to civilized countries, is out of control (as you can tell from the poster to the right), but when it comes to reasonable debate, somehow we just lose it. We are a freedom-loving people, or...
- According To Conservatives, The Aftermath Of A Massive Shooting Spree Is Not The Time To Talk About Guns?
I get that we in America have a constitutional right to bear arms and own weapons, but since we also love our Declaration of Independence, we also believe that we have a right to life. Now, these don't have to be mutually exclusive, so you'd think...
- Physicist's Use Of Ancient Lead Is Not Making Archaeologists Happy
"Lead extracted today is naturally contaminated with the isotope Pb-210, which prevents it from being used as shielding for particle detectors".... Is this true? "Use of ancient lead in modern physics experiments ignites debate" November 29th, 2013...
- Sir William Henry Bragg
Sir William Henry Bragg July 2nd, 1862 to March 12th, 1942 Sir William Henry Bragg was a pioneer British scientist in solid-state physics who was a joint winner (with his son Sir Lawrence Bragg) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 for research on...