Mark’s Super Accurate Tresbuchet

I’m going to miss  helping the kids work on their physics projects.  Four years ago, Mia set out to set a distance record in the the annual AP Physics Tresbuchet contest and was beat by a modified elastic powered catapult which in my opinion clearly violated the spirit and form of the classic  ‘tresbuchet” .   But that…

What is with the animosity towards buisness owners?

With my daughter covering the Occupy Oakland riots for CALTV, the issues surrounding the discontent of the “99%” have been household discussion. Today in Berkeley, there were 10 people arrested and some beaten for setting up tents on campus in protest of higher tuition. The fact is that about 70 percent of Cal students get…