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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A clean stage. We served 10k+ at our public shows, 3k at our field trip shows.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

September blood donation. Trying to build good karma as we roll into classes.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Laser fun at day 3 of field trip shows.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Liquid nitrogen at our first field trip show.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We are going to host ~3.5k kids from Title 1 schools Wed/Thurs/Fri/Mon. Each will go home with a physics-themed shirt. You can help us by buying seats to our public shows: www.thephysicsshow.com

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Back in the chair. Trying to get good deeds done while I still have summer.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Here I am in a museum with a Helen Levitt. Looking for a first-day Ranking Task introduction? Make a set of images from art in your life, and ask the students to sort the art by age. Introduces students to a tool, and humanizes their teacher. For more, see doi.org/10.1119/5.03...

Man standing next to black and white photograph of a New York City street scene.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I got my annual permission letter from my cardiologist to donate blood. Went straight to the blood center.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This month's Physics Teacher has a piece on the Physics Show (doi.org/10.1119/5.02...)! It's great to see our model disseminated. @barnettdreyfuss.bsky.social tells her journey in the American Journal of Physics (doi.org/10.1119/5.03...). We came up in the same ecosystem, it was a joy to read.

Three people in community, Bree Barnett Dreyfuss, Pablo Robinson, and David Marasco.

Physicist demonstrating conservation of momentum while wearing a tutu.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

We've put away our equipment and cleaned the stage. Over the past two weeks we've done physics outreach shows for 10k+ members of the public and roughly 2500 kids from Title 1 schools.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Second day of field trip shows for kids from Title 1 schools.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Today we hosted 800+ kids from Title 1 schools. Let your friends know they can support our science outreach work by buying tickets for our weekend performances. www.thephysicsshow.com

Physics performer in front of a large crowd of children.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Rolled past a milestone. If you are able, please donate blood.

Person holding sign that notes 200th blood donation.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Giving blood. Please donate if you are able. #Give4Life

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

If you are eligible, please donate blood. This is a direct way you can help others. #Give4Life #EverydayBrave

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Back in the chair. If you are eligible, please donate. So much of our world is a dumpster fire, but this is a direct way you can help others. #Give4Life #EverydayBrave

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

It's the #DayOfRemembrance. Over the past month I have thought often of my grandparents' lessons. They taught to resist, even if the odds are overwhelmingly against you. Comply when needed, but only when needed. Nurture and protect your communities. They survived, and so will we.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Back in the chair. If you are eligible, please donate. So much of our world is a dumpster fire, but this is a direct way you can help others. #Give4Life #EverydayBrave

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

For Fred Korematsu Day, a photo of Japanese-Americans in their Internment camp. They are meeting with the White businessman they hired to oversee their farms. My grandfather (marked) helped them form a collective and write the contract. Unlike most JA, they didn't lose their farms. Organize.

A large group of mainly Asian men in an old-timey photo.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The unicycle on the tightrope is what happens when I lose bets...

A person on a unicycle far above a stage.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I wear a tutu for the conservation of angular momentum part of our show. My first reaction to this photo was "I'd look better if I smiled." I don't recall ever thinking that before when viewing other photos of me. But all it took to trigger that sexism was a change of clothing. :(

A man wearing a tutu. He is not smiling.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Back in the chair. If you are eligible, please donate. Karma for the first day of the term.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Just in case Santa doesn't bring Physics Show tickets, we've still got seats at: www.thephysicsshow.com They make great stocking-stuffers.

A Lego scene with the Bed of Nails demonstration.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Silicon Valley folks, we still have tickets for our Sunday shows: www.thephysicsshow.com

A room full of people watching science demos.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The Vet Tech program is our opening act for our field trip show this morning.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Kids have started to arrive for our outreach show this morning!

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

SF Bay Area folks, we are getting ready for our December performances. We do fun physics demos for kids! Get your tickets at www.thephysicsshow.com Our proceeds go to supporting science outreach for Title 1 ("free lunch") schools. Tell your friends!

People setting up a prop on a performance stage.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

It's Pearl Harbor Day. Every Japanese American of a certain age has their own story. This is my grandfather's. #AAPIhistory

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

These are some of the 7000 Physics Show shirts we will be giving to kids from Title 1 ("Free lunch") schools this cycle. Help us help them, get tickets for our shows at www.thephysicsshow.com

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Sad to learn Mary Mogge has passed. She guided me in AAPT when I moved up to the national level. I discovered she was a year ahead of my dad at Stony Brook, I'm including a photo from her first year there. The last time I saw her was at AAPTSM23, where I was pleased to introduce her to my son.

A black and white photo of a physics department from the 1960s. It is very male-dominated.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Have a reflective #FredKorematsuDay. The photo below is a business meeting at the Amache incarceration camp. The Japanese-Americans contracted caretakers to oversee their farms in the absence. They were some of the few JA who returned to their farms after the war. My grandfather helped lead.

Group photo of Japanese-American farmers and white businessmen.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

We rolled past 200k in total attendance today.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

We closed out 2023 by hosting 2000+ kids from underserved schools. They learned about science, got a campus tour, and a shirt. We do this w/$ from our public shows. For $6 you can help! SF area folks, get your tickets at www.thephysicsshow.com. (January performances are the same as last Sept.)

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Giving myself permission to think about getting a new-for-me car.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

I got myself an early holiday gift. Every Asian American male my age remembers when they first saw this film. #AAPI

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Going to go old school with a book I picked up at this weekend's @ncnaapt.bsky.social meeting. #ITeachPhysics

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Back in my day, if we wanted to correct the stats of a Hall of Fame baseball player, we sent photocopies of evidence to the author of the Baseball Encyclopedia via USPS. I feel very, very old.

Letter from author of Baseball Encyclopedia, discussing Satchel Paige's 1948 statistics.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

My great-grandfather settling up with a local merchant, just prior to being sent to an internment camp. #AAPI #AAPIHistory

A receipt noting that it was the last payment prior to "evacuation."

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Ben Kuroki was a Japanese American who flew 58 missions with the Army Air Force in WWII. The military also used him as a poster boy for recruiting. At some point my grandfather must have chased him down, as the copy of the biography I inherited is signed. #AAPI #AAPIHistory.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Back in the chair. If you are eligible, please donate. #Give4Life #EverydayBrave

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Our parking lot is filled with school busses because we brought in 1000 guests from Title 1 schools today for Physics Shows.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Today is the day we all post our Bill Nye selfies?

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

TIL about Ben Kuroki, who flew over WWII Europe as part of the US Army's 8th Air Force. I had previously thought that all Japanese Americans had been part of segregated units. #AAPI #AAPIHistory

A japanese american wearing a flight jacket.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

I'm tossing Bohemian Rhapsody into the ring...

Tweet asking what song you would have a room full of white people to sing if one million dollars was on the line.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

From Hosokawa's "Nisei: The Quiet Americans" (1969), a short description of Japanese Americans learning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor while playing golf. My grandfather notes in the margin that he won said tournament.

Text about a golf game with a hand-written note in the margin.

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ThePhysicsShow @thephysicsshow.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

A golf trophy found in my late Uncle's stuff. The Tanabe Cup? Grandpa was a strong golfer, this is either pre-WWII, or was won in a Mitsubishi company tournament in NYC in the 1950s or 60s. #AAPI #AAPIHistory

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