Monthly Archives: June 2015

BWISER and summer outreach

Susan Lehman June 29, 2015 10:14 PM

One of the Wooster summer traditions is the BWISER science camp for 7th and 8th grade girls.  The physics department has been responsible for an evening of demos for the campers since before I came to the College in 2003, … Continue reading →

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Criticality in Sandpiles and in the Brain

Susan Lehman June 29, 2015 9:18 PM

I’ve started following various science sites on Twitter as a way to keep up on the latest research, and last week an interesting article popped up on Phys.org with the title “Functioning brain follows famous sand pile model”.  Since my … Continue reading →

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Chaos in the Clockwork

John F. Lindner June 9, 2015 4:29 AM

The work of Newton and Laplace suggested to many that the solar system was like a giant clockwork, which was illustrated by beautiful mechanical models called orreries. The controversial Molchanov hypothesis avers that every oscillatory system evolves to a resonance … Continue reading →

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