Astronomy Blogging Betelgeuse Drama 22 Jan 202022 Jan 2020 Image credit: NPS photo by Michael Quinn Further discussion has erupted in the last few days regarding the potential fate of a Ori, the elderly star known to us as…
Teaching tips The Pinhole Camera and the Telescope 15 Jan 202022 Jan 2020 One of the most memorable experiences in a physics lab was from a graduate level module of Geometrical Optics. The tutor, Prof. Papathanasoglou -perhaps one of the most sweet and…
Astronomy Blogging Is Betelgeuse about to go Supernova? 2 Jan 20202 Feb 2020 Is Betelgeuse about to go Supernova? You might have seen pieces on various media claiming that Betelgeuse, an elderly star in the constellation of Orion is about to provide…
Teaching tips Teaching the Big Bang 28 Mar 201928 Mar 2019 Teaching the topic of the Big Bang theory poses a number of conceptual difficulties that can be challenging for secondary school students (not to mention their teachers!). Misconceptions are not…
Classroom Activities Spectres in the Dark 28 Feb 20184 Mar 2019 I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself…
Classroom Activities Chasing the Red Planet 27 Feb 20184 Mar 2019 Planets. Restless wanderers of the sky. Worshipped as Gods. The motion of the planet Mars, also known as the “Red Planet”(due to its distinctive orange-red colour on the night…
Introduction The Journey Begins 25 Feb 20184 Mar 2019 Thanks for joining me! This website was created with one purpose: to share resources that I've made over the years for teaching Astronomy. The resources were made having the GCSE…
Political Economy Political Economy 14: The Rich and the Poor 13 Jul 201913 Jul 2019 1. Recently, Pope Francis gave a speech to the UN assembly, highlighting the gap between the rich and the poor and the need to take care of the latter. The…
Political Economy Political Economy 13: Capital – Part II – Distortion 6 Jul 201913 Jul 2019 1. As mentioned on previous posts, Political Economy saw a distortion of its teaching by the academics that taught it: they dubbed land as capital! This post will examine this…
Political Economy Political Economy 12: Capital – Part I 24 Jun 201913 Jul 2019 1. Capital is any form of wealth which is used to produce additional wealth. Many wrongful ideas have been spread about capital. A serious mistake is the general belief that…
Political Economy Tax Reform – Part II 16 Jun 201913 Jul 2019 1. It is not hard to see that the same confusion that holds in Economicsholds true in taxation also. At the time of writing (Feb 2012), the Greek finance…
Political Economy Tax Reform – Part III 16 Jun 201913 Jul 2019 1. On November 27th, 1993, the Financial Times published an important article by John Plender, where all the major problems of the modern taxation system were raised, highlighting the need for…
Political Economy Tax Reform – Part I 16 Jun 201913 Jul 2019 1. A subject frequently talked about in our country (Greece) is tax reform, which is not surprising since the taxes here change faster than seasonal fashions. At the time of…
Political Economy Capitalism and Rent-Seeking, Part II 16 Jun 201913 Jul 2019 1.Let us continue dismantling the bad reputation that “capital” has by examining another aspect of “capitalist profit” which is economic rent. Economic rent is, as has been mentioned before, the…
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