Michael Faraday's book "The Forces of Matter" is my latest read. It is a transcript, with illustrations, of the series of six lectures for young people which Faraday gave at the Royal Institution during the 1859-60 Christmas holidays. Quite some time ago I read Faraday's "The Chemical History of a Candle", another series of juvenile Christmas ( Read more... )

Last week, my electromagnetics instructor used an absolutely brilliant teaching method. It was the middle of 2nd week of classes, and the students were starting to feel fairly draggy - the room was only half-full at the opening, and the last people arrived at 6 minutes past ( Read more... )