ThePhysicsShow
@thephysicsshow
Fun demo show for kids, adult kids enjoy too. Proceeds bring students from underserved schools. 240k+ served. TYC is our day job. Voice of David, not Frank. Trying to bring more AAPI content to this site.
Here I am in a museum with a Helen Levitt. Looking for a first-day Ranking Task introduction? Make a set of images from art in your life, and ask the students to sort the art by age. Introduces students to a tool, and humanizes their teacher. For more, see doi.org/10.1119/5.03...
I got my annual permission letter from my cardiologist to donate blood. Went straight to the blood center.
This month's Physics Teacher has a piece on the Physics Show (doi.org/10.1119/5.02...)! It's great to see our model disseminated. @barnettdreyfuss.bsky.social tells her journey in the American Journal of Physics (doi.org/10.1119/5.03...). We came up in the same ecosystem, it was a joy to read.
We've put away our equipment and cleaned the stage. Over the past two weeks we've done physics outreach shows for 10k+ members of the public and roughly 2500 kids from Title 1 schools.
Today we hosted 800+ kids from Title 1 schools. Let your friends know they can support our science outreach work by buying tickets for our weekend performances. www.thephysicsshow.com
If you are eligible, please donate blood. This is a direct way you can help others. #Give4Life #EverydayBrave
Back in the chair. If you are eligible, please donate. So much of our world is a dumpster fire, but this is a direct way you can help others. #Give4Life #EverydayBrave
It's the #DayOfRemembrance. Over the past month I have thought often of my grandparents' lessons. They taught to resist, even if the odds are overwhelmingly against you. Comply when needed, but only when needed. Nurture and protect your communities. They survived, and so will we.
Back in the chair. If you are eligible, please donate. So much of our world is a dumpster fire, but this is a direct way you can help others. #Give4Life #EverydayBrave
For Fred Korematsu Day, a photo of Japanese-Americans in their Internment camp. They are meeting with the White businessman they hired to oversee their farms. My grandfather (marked) helped them form a collective and write the contract. Unlike most JA, they didn't lose their farms. Organize.
The unicycle on the tightrope is what happens when I lose bets...
I wear a tutu for the conservation of angular momentum part of our show. My first reaction to this photo was "I'd look better if I smiled." I don't recall ever thinking that before when viewing other photos of me. But all it took to trigger that sexism was a change of clothing. :(
Back in the chair. If you are eligible, please donate. Karma for the first day of the term.
Just in case Santa doesn't bring Physics Show tickets, we've still got seats at: www.thephysicsshow.com They make great stocking-stuffers.
Silicon Valley folks, we still have tickets for our Sunday shows: www.thephysicsshow.com
The Vet Tech program is our opening act for our field trip show this morning.
Kids have started to arrive for our outreach show this morning!
SF Bay Area folks, we are getting ready for our December performances. We do fun physics demos for kids! Get your tickets at www.thephysicsshow.com Our proceeds go to supporting science outreach for Title 1 ("free lunch") schools. Tell your friends!
It's Pearl Harbor Day. Every Japanese American of a certain age has their own story. This is my grandfather's. #AAPIhistory
These are some of the 7000 Physics Show shirts we will be giving to kids from Title 1 ("Free lunch") schools this cycle. Help us help them, get tickets for our shows at www.thephysicsshow.com
Sad to learn Mary Mogge has passed. She guided me in AAPT when I moved up to the national level. I discovered she was a year ahead of my dad at Stony Brook, I'm including a photo from her first year there. The last time I saw her was at AAPTSM23, where I was pleased to introduce her to my son.
Have a reflective #FredKorematsuDay. The photo below is a business meeting at the Amache incarceration camp. The Japanese-Americans contracted caretakers to oversee their farms in the absence. They were some of the few JA who returned to their farms after the war. My grandfather helped lead.
We closed out 2023 by hosting 2000+ kids from underserved schools. They learned about science, got a campus tour, and a shirt. We do this w/$ from our public shows. For $6 you can help! SF area folks, get your tickets at www.thephysicsshow.com. (January performances are the same as last Sept.)
Giving myself permission to think about getting a new-for-me car.