Have you ever painted a sunset?

Some of my fondest memories of my youngest daughter are the times we used to paint the sunset. She was probably about three years old, and whenever we spotted a sunset, we’d pull out our imaginary paintbrushes and paint, together. We’d make flourishes with our brushes, in oranges and yellows and reds. And then we would dab […]

Writing it up wraps it up

You make the hypothesis, design the experiment to test the hypothesis, do the experiment, make observations, record them, evaluate your results and draw conclusions. Oh yes. Then you write it up. And if you’re DaVinci, father of experimental design, you write it on any scrap of paper handy, forward or backward, left-handed. Well, I am […]