Visible in parts of northern Africa and most of Europe. See also NASA’s solar eclipses for 2011-2020.

To be held at the University of Massachussetts in Amherst. See also: http://www.uml.edu/college/arts_sciences/physics/APS-AAPT/

This is the closest approach of the Earth to the Sun.

To be held at Creighton University in Omaha, NE.

Winter meeting in Jacksonville, FL. See also: 2011 AAPT Winter Meeting Home.

Today is the day when Earth makes its closest approach to the Sun, around 2pm EST (New York time). If you live in the northern hemisphere, you might find it surprising that the Earth is closer to the Sun during winter than during summer, but it is. The difference in distance is “small,” astronomically speaking, …

Perihelion Day!Read More

Troop 13 Camping at Pouch

Pack 313 Den 4 will be visiting the Tenafly Nature Center to complete their Naturalist pin work.

Every month I get the APS News (the dead-tree version, which I can carry on the subway), and the two parts I always read first are the Members in the Media (link is to Oct 2010 issue) and This Month in Physics History. Both of these sections help in putting a personal face on physics, …

This Month in Physics History: Louie de BroglieRead More

I was going to make this just a comment on my previous blog entry, but after spending a couple of hours trying various tools and making notes, the "comment" was getting longer than the original post. So it gets it’s own entry. I’ve kept poking at various tools to try to recover some of my …

ZIP Recovery Tools – Not *Exactly* an EndorsementRead More