PhysOrg

One website I rather like is called PhysOrg. It’s a news aggregator website which nowadays puts up about two hundred science stories a day. I’ve referred to a fair number of them in my Physics Detective articles. PhysOrg was around when I started digging into physics twenty years ago. Back then the website was PhysOrg.com, now it’s Phys.org. See the Phys.org entry on Grokipedia for some background. It was founded in 2004 by two anonymous PhD students “in response to the scarcity of accessible, high-quality science journalism…

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YouTube Physics

Merry Christmas to one and all. It’s been another day in paradise here on the South coast of England. The sky was blue, the beach was beautiful, and I even saw a lizard basking in the sun. It was a wall lizard, also known as Podarcis muralis: Poole, UK, December 20th 2025, clockwise: 1) looking towards Bournemouth, 2) looking towards Sandbanks, 3) a wall lizard It was another day in paradise last Sunday in Bondi beach when our daughter was walking past the pavilion. Fortunately she…

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