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  1. Demo Highlight: Polarizers and Light Source
  2. STEM News Tip: AIP Oral History Interviews
  3. Demo Highlight: Newton's Cradle
  4. STEM News Tip: Phosphine and Venus Update: The Research Goes On
  5. A Festive Time: Happy Isaac Newton's Birthday
  6. STEM News Tip: Winter Solstice 2020
  7. Demo Highlight: Rolling vs. Sliding
  8. STEM News Tip: Space, Sun, Stones, and Streaming
  9. Demo Highlight: Suspended Slinky
  10. STEM News Tip: Geminids Meteors
  11. STEM News Tip: Physics Today Features Music & Acoustics for International Year of Sound
  12. STEM News Tip: National Math Festival Online
  13. Demo Highlight: Pendulum Length Ratio
  14. STEM News Tip: Arecibo Observatory to be Decomissioned
  15. Demonstration Highlight: Potential Well
  16. STEM News Tip: UMD Data Challenge 2021
  17. STEM News Tip: Space Launch System Tests Resume
  18. STEM News Tip: The Mathematics of a Pandemic
  19. STEM News Tip: Try NASA’s Eyes on for size!
  20. STEM News Tip: AIP Foundation & TEAM-UP Report
  21. Demo Highlight: Free Fall in Vacuum
  22. STEM News Tip: New Comet in the Neighborhood
  23. Demo Highlight: Van de Graaff and Pie Pans
  24. STEM News Tip: Upcoming Virtual Events with UMD Science
  25. Demo Highlight: The Shive Wave Machine with Prof. Peter Shawhan
  26. The Physics of Bats
  27. Demo Highlight: Electromagnet With Bang
  28. STEM News Tip: Webinar Series
  29. STEM News Tip: Sci-Fi Costumes at Air&Space Museum
  30. STEM News Tip: DOE on STEM Careers
  31. Demonstration Highlight: The Egg Crusher
  32. STEM News Tip: Upcoming SPS Virtual Colloquium with Dr. Nicole Gugliucci
  33. STEM News Tip: Physics Comedy at the Maryland STEM Festival
  34. STEM News Tip: Dean Steve Fetter wins APS Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
  35. Demonstration Highlight: Guitar & Oscilloscope
  36. STEM News Tip: 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Announced
  37. Demo Highlight: Racing Balls 2
  38. STEM News Tip: Maryland STEM Festival 2020
  39. Demonstration Highlight: Fourier Analysis
  40. STEM News Tip: Learning Resources for Nuclear Power
  41. Today in Physics History: Neptune
  42. Highlight: Van de Graaff Generator Animation
  43. STEM News Tip: Exoplanet around a White Dwarf Star
  44. Animation Highlight: Pendulum Waves
  45. STEM News Tip: Quantum Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips
  46. Demo Highlight: Laser and Double Slit
  47. STEM News Tip: Phosphine on Venus
  48. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 and the Physics Job Market
  49. Highlight: Radio Waves and Faraday Cage
  50. Remote Teaching Resources
  51. STEM News Tip: New Gravitational Waves Discoveries!
  52. Atwood's Machine: Testing Newton’s Second Law
  53. STEM News Tip: Some new articles in science teaching & information, August 2020
  54. Demonstration Highlight: Masses Dropped and Shot
  55. STEM News Tip: Native American Physics & Astronomy
  56. STEM News Tip: Titan and its Atmosphere on APOD
  57. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 impact on research
  58. The Tablecloth, the Coin, and Other Adventures with Inertia
  59. Quantum Demonstration and Simulation: The Hydrogen Atom
  60. STEM News Tip: New Atmospheric Phenomena Spotted on Venus
  61. STEM News Tip: SPS Virtual Colloquium
  62. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion & Uniform Circular Motion
  63. STEM News Tip: Meteor Showers and Rain Showers
  64. STEM News Tip: Sonic Tourism
  65. Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnet
  66. STEM News Tip: Mars 2020 launches this week!
  67. STEM News Tip: Nova Reticuli 2020
  68. How many demonstrations?
  69. STEM News Tip: Solar Observer webcast this week!
  70. STEM News Tip: Children Learning About Gears
  71. Space News: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
  72. Demo Highlight: Vector Addition
  73. Demonstration Highlight: The Pencil and Plywood Experiment
  74. Demo Highlight: The Ripple Tank and a Ripple Tank Simulator
  75. Demo Highlight: The Racing Balls in Slow Motion
  76. Happy birthday, Alexander Müller
  77. New Demonstration: The Paramagnetism of a Dysprosium Pendulum
  78. Welcome to Spring 2020
  79. Light Up the Night: Neon and "Neon" Lights
  80. A Heated Discussion In Class
  81. The Physics Soda Can Returns: Electrostatic Induction
  82. Physics Teatime 3: Do Not Try This At Home
  83. Introducing Our Newest Center of Mass Demonstration
  84. FLIGHT!
  85. Happy Birthday Carl Sagan
  86. Hot Air Balloon
  87. Upcoming Events at UMD Physics!
  88. Welcome to Fall 2019!
  89. Summer Hiatus
  90. Phun with Electrons: Particle or Wave?
  91. Physics Teatime 2: On The Making Of Tea
  92. On the Choosing of Demonstrations
  93. Teatime in Physics
  94. Happy Birthday to Émilie du Châtelet
  95. Seeing Sound: Vibrations on a Plate
  96. Women Nobel Laureates in Physics
  97. Coming Soon: Physics is Phun presents Induction and Deduction
  98. New Portable Ripple Tank
  99. Irene Joliot-Curie
  100. New Demos: Buoyancy and Electromagnetic Forces
  101. Falling into Free Fall
  102. Happy 100th Birthday Katherine Johnson!
  103. Demonstration Orders for the Fall Semester
  104. Welcome!