Re: [Phys-l] Technique diffusion. Was: Re: laser

[Joseph Bellina <jbellina@saintmarys.edu>]

Hardin is exactly right.

A standard part of the pitch I make to teachers about doing science  
is that public science...the papers at meetings... told me very  
little about what really happened.  If I wanted to know, what I call  
the real private science, I would always chat with the person in the  
hall, or wherever.   That is the real purpose of those meetings.   
There are few surprises in the talks, they mostly come in the private  
conversations.

I make that point because for the most part pre-college teachers  
think science is the public stuff, when in reality it is the private  
stuff you only know if you are part of the community.  The reformed  
science curriculum is really private science, not public, or worse  
yet, school science...the encyclopedia...and teachers need to become  
aware of private science if they are really going to engage their  
students.

joe

Joseph J. Bellina, Jr. Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556

On Feb 6, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

> Great!
>
> Garret Hardin told me, long time ago, that more useful info. was
> exchanged in the bar after the formal meeting where the Ph.D.s  
> presented
> their papers than during their meeting.
>
> bc, drinker
>
> X wrote:
>
> > That clever setup with a laser beam and mirror on a needle bearing  
> > you
> > told me about is being used in a paper in the Horological Science
> > Newsletter to demonstrate and quantify wall motion with pendulum
> > clocks. You told me about it and I told him about it and it was just
> > what he needed.
>
>
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