Archive for January, 2011

The Physics of Speed (and the value of multiple Ortizes)

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

Thanks to this book, Neil and I watched the 1994 movie Speed for his physics lesson today. As a physics lesson, the movie is absurdly amusing. If you don’t know the movie, the general premise is that a madman, unhappy with his pension plan, has placed a bomb on a public transit bus, and once [...]

by Carolyn Bickford