We don't want another moment to slip by without highlighting yesterday's Standard-Examiner Guest commentary, in which one eminent Weber State University professor makes a pitch for prospective students to enroll in science and technology courses at Emerald City's WSU. Starting out with praise of the "problem solving" engineers and technologists who are putting the finishing touches on the FrontRunner Transit System, Physics Department Assistant Professor Dr. John Armstrong segues into a discussion of the current shortage of home-grown scientists and engineers, and then invites everybody to attend an upcoming WSU special event: "The WSU 2nd Annual Physics Open House".
We've perused the detailed online Schedule of Events, and found several tantalizing presentations that definitely caught our jaded eye:
LL121 - Circus of Physics - Physics professors Adam Johnston and Colin Inglefield risk their lives for your amusement.Whoa!
LL123 - Ask a Physicist - Think you are smarter than Einstein? A panel of physicists will answer your questions. Stump the Chumps!
LL121 - Spinning Objects, Electricity, and Cats! - Live experiments involving miniature lightning, jumping wires, rotating objects, and the falling, twisting, mechanical cat.
Check out the detailed events list here.
Frankly, we look at this event as one of those important "can't miss" events that crops up on the WSU campus from time to time. Your blogmeister intends to calender and attend this event; and he hopes that many of our WCF readers will do the same. With luck, we might even be able to hook up with gentle reader Dan S. for a brief explanation of the secrets of the universe.
Looks to be even more fun than even an evening of Watch Mr. Wizard reruns, we think.
And who will be the first to comment?
9 comments:
If you want to know the secrets of the universe, you should attend "The Institute".
Physics professors don't have a hotline to God, like we do.
Only we know how the universe works!
Thanks for the plug, Rudi! Yes, I'll be there with my collleagues. Look for me in the Virtual Physics room.
Rudi:
Those physics professors are shameless! Trolling in the public prints for students and public support. Shameless! And pretending things like the Physics Circus are in fact interesting. Ha! But it won't work. The public knows. Pretending that the Physics Circus could be more interesting than a history talk on "Economic Factors Limiting Policy Options Preceding The Ostend Manifesto: A Re-Evaluation" is just so totally lame.... They have no shame.
The SE and SL Trib have posted this as breaking news: Miley Cyrus [aka Hannah Montana] will be headlining at the "Stadium of Fire" show at BYU on the 4th of July. Also on the bill, The Blue Man Group and, as the show's host, TV Right Wing Blithering Idiot Glen Beck.
Be there or be square!
My lord, what a card: Hannah Montana, the Blue Man Group and Glen Beck. And it will sell out. Ah, Utah. No place quite like it....
WSU would be a lot better if it had a gondola.
Losers!
Ah Curmudgeon my friend, you must be getting a little musty around the edges! Actually Miley Cyrus is a very big talent and an incredible personality! She will not doubt become a very big entertainment star.
As for the Blue man group and said idiot Beck, well at least you got that part right.
Ozboy:
From what I've seen of her, she has acquired an impressive stage presence for someone so young. Wasn't dissing her. Just remarking on the fact that her signing to play the "Stadium of Fire" was considered hot breaking news by the SL Trib and SE. And on the fact that it's a very weird card they've arranged for the 4th down there at Zion Central: Hannah, Blue Man Group and Beck. Talk about strange bedfellows....
Are big stadium shows on the 4th particular to Utah? I don't recall people packing themselves into stadiums in Louisiana or Illinois or Wisconsin or New York on the 4th. Personally, I'd have a hard time thinking of something I'd like to do less on the fourth than a stadium show. Particularly an outdoor one. In fact, it seems downright un-American to me. The 4th is for parades, followed by a back yard bbq: hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream and apple pie, frisbies, dogs and suitable libations. Then fire works. Like God intended. No accounting for tastes, I guess.
No accounting for taste indeed! For me a great 4th of July is drinking at least a keg of brew, burning the neighbors garage down with my illegal fireworks I got in Evanston and then sliding down to Northern Exposure with a fist full of dollars for some real fireworks.
Who is Ciley Miley, and is there really a blue guy performer?
There have been unconfirmed sightings of Grifter and Ms. Grifter preparing to host the planetarium shows at the open house...
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