Posts:

• Soap Bubble Recipe

  2020-11-25 | 2 min read | #bubbles, #sciencedemo

  When Dawn changed their proprietary soap recipe in 1996, making great bubble soap at home became less straightforward.

• DIY Super Soaker Prototype

  2020-06-07 | 5 min read | #supersoaker, #DIY

  They don’t make Super Soakers like they used to when I was a kid. I read the original patents and built my own.

• The SciPy Ecosystem Should Use Custom Entrypoints More

  2019-07-25 | 4 min read | #SciPy, #entrypoints

  Python library developers can declare custom entry_points in their packages. This language feature is a good fit for “plugin discovery”, and it should be more widely used.

• Sharing Jupyter Notebooks

  2019-07-03 | 5 min read | #SciPy, #Jupyter

  A survey of approaches for sharing Jupyter notebooks

• Bootstrap a Scientific Python Library

  2019-06-30 | 1 min read | #SciPy

  A guide and template for scientific Python libraries

• Beats-per-Minute Measurement Tool

  2014-12-19 | 1 min read | #music

  An simple web app for counting beats per minute, with measurement error

• Winter is Coming

  2013-04-04 | 1 min read | #GOT, #astrophysics

  I coauthored an April Fools’ Day arXiv paper on planetary orbits that could result in unpredictable winter length.

• Remembering Zlatko Tesanovic's Classroom Wit

  2012-11-16 | 2 min read | #JHU

  A tribute to Professor Tesanovic’s way of making quantum mechanics memorable with dry humor

• Photomosaics

  2012-10-27 | 2 min read | #photomosaic, #Python

  Demonstrating open source software for generating irregular photomosaics

• Illusion Songs

  2012-10-15 | 1 min read | #music

  A new blog collects aural illusions, and I share some favorites that I know

• Tug of War with Pulleys

  2010-10-27 | 1 min read | #sciencedemo

  Giving Baltimore City high school students hands-on experience with mechanical advantage

• Exploding Popsicle Sticks

  2008-09-13 | 1 min read | #sciencedemo

  Four Popsicle sticks can be bent together to form a spring-loaded projectile, perfect for entertaining bored children.

• The Horn of Jericho: An Acoustical Cannon

  2008-08-12 | 1 min read | #thermoacoustics

  Building a thermoacoustic device using toaster wire, a catalytic converter, and a giant glass pipe