A pair of plastic framed 3D glasses, with one red lens and one blue lens.

Working in a science basement means that when Randall Munroe, Amber, Benjamin Staffin, and Kevin introduce XKCD in 3D…
You are ready.
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I just hosted a spontaneous gathering of students. I am sure that in my sleep-deprived state, some of my explanation for the lightning rod demo was incorrect, but they had a great time, and I can live with mistakes.
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A sugar solution glows in rainbow colors against a black backdrop in this photo. A large (500 ml) graduated cylinder filled with a sugar solution is held sideways. White light passes through a polarizer and then shines into the solution, creating a glowing spiral of colors: white, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, green, and back to yellow at the far end.

My job? Spinning sugar into rainbows
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Some days, I carefully test, calibrate, debug, cross-check, and repair.
Some days, I make bats for the Van de Graaff. Original demo design was published by James Ellingson (The Physics Teacher, v. 26, pg 446, 1988)
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This print-out of old computer code is labeled in pen, “Original Apollo 11 source code running on 20 KB ROM and 2 KB RAM :-)”.

The things I find in the back occasionally surprise me.
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