Third Age Physics: what's so special about the Earth?
Channel: Bob Newport
Date: 23/10/2020

This series of videos represents an online version of various physics-inspired sessions put together during recent years for the 1000+ members of my local U3A (University of the Third Age) in Canterbury, UK. This year, being the fun-fest that it isn't, requires a different approach - one that doesn't depend upon face-to-face indoor events. Each session will have been recorded in a single take, and without a script or notes in order to try to reproduce the 'live' experience. Also, it would simply be too dispiriting to deliver a long and stilted monologue ... oh how I miss sharing my love of science face-to-face with a group of people who can provide real-time feedback! The upshot is that viewers will get all my stumbles, throat-clearing, failures in memory and moments of lost track: forbearance is a good quality in such contexts. What I will try to ensure is that I build a 'sanity break' into the videos every 40 minutes or so: a juncture at which it's easily possible to have a rest. I may do this within a given video or by splitting the thing into two or more parts.

Please see my blog for details: https://bobreflected.blogspot.com/2020/10/third-age-physics.html
this will serve as a Contents Page for the video series and as a repository for additional information, links to useful sites etc.

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