Jim Stewart
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Science Education Group
Western Washington University
jstewart@physics.wwu.edu

Stehekin, north end of Lake Chelan in the North Cascades, ca 2000.
  • A personal letter to my students revised 10 Oct 2007
  • Government is Good
  • You're damn right I'm angry. Why isn't everybody? David Michael Green, 28 Dec 2007
  • Informed Comment Thoughts on the Middle East
  • Common Dreams compiles news and commentary from around the U.S. and the world.
  • RealClimate: knowledgeable and up-to-date commentary from climate scientists.
  • Matters of Consequence
    * The War Prayer , Mark Twain
    * First they came for the Jews
    * What powers does the U.S. Constitution grant to the President? the Congress?
    * What is the right to habeus corpus and why is it the only individual right enumerated in the un-amended Constitution?
    * Doesn't the Fourth Amendment require a warrant to search?
    * The BILL OF RIGHTS
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    The Angler An essential piece of immediate history detailing the machinations of Vice President Dick Cheney. Published in the Washington Post the week of June 24, 2007.
    *A Profile in Cowardice July 8, 2007 , New York Times.
    *A letter to Nancy Pelosi
    * The Magna Carta, Habeus Corpus , the Constitution and Alberto Gonzales
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    The Long Emergency
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    9/11 and the Sport of God, Bill Moyers.
    *The power of language - A Nation of Victims
    *A Window Out: Interesting and challenging links to the "liberal media" and beyond.

    Science stuff, mostly
    Nuclear Weapons
    Energy
    Climate Change

    More climate links for AAPT workshop
    Hammer & feather movie
    Sean Tucker's office
    High Potential Job
    Religion and Science
    Pseudosci
    LN2 phase change demo (Abstract: We examine the macroscopic consequences of the change of state of nitrogen from the liquid phase to the gas phase when constrained in a sealed container immersed in a water bath.) Big file. Takes a long time to download.
    Hyperphysics index
    Trebuchet Movie

    Science news links for teachers
    Personal Stuff
    Lung cancer and me: Story | Video
    Patagonia, 1999
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