Dr Gaz

I teach physics. I used to be a professional physicist. I'm writing textbooks and worksheets for physics teachers.

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@alexfmac I do pretty much that route for my commute on my bike and it takes an hour.

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@but_cyclists That’s not a bicycle…

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@runliftrunlift @pushpullrun You can get rid of the soreness by training more frequently (repeated bout effect) and doing the same exercises each time. It’s not really to do with how close you are to failure. If you do deadlifts 2x per week you will no longer get sore from deadlifts.

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@C_Hendrick I used to go to soft play a lot when the kids were very young. The summer my youngest turned 2 I stopped going and haven’t been back since. This post made me realise I have some sort of soft play PTSD.

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@DrDavidBoyce @Headteacherchat Which question was it? Can you send the link from the relevant BPhO paper?

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@Bikery1966 @jenkszy A woman I caught the other day was shopping for dresses. You can also change addresses in google maps or change song using a hands free holder, which is legal. The excuses never end.

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@but_cyclists There’s a few videos on YouTube that show you how to get it on without levers. Then you need a lot of patience. Usually takes about half an hour of constantly moving the tyre into the middle groove of the wheel to give it enough slack. Easiest if you don’t inflate the tube at all

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@_VN5 @MetCC @roadcc @London_Cycling @HarrowCyclists I don’t see why either. But in the email that they send when they confirm a NIP it says that you should avoid interacting with the driver and avoid swearing. When submitting clips if I swear it rarely gets progressed to a NIP, so if I do I mute the clip when sending in.

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@HammersmithBri1 The progress is glacial. I walk across it twice everyday and most days nothing of note is done. No way it’s opening in two months if they continue the current rate of progress.

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@londonfletsch @London_Cycling @HF_Cycling @hammersmithandy @TfL @HammersmithBID @LBHF @StephenCowan Honestly the picture looks bad but it’s a nice bit of cycle lane. Go on it twice daily. They even clean it 😂

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@Chemistry_IB @Mr_Raichura Is there anything that makes humans unique, perhaps, and not like other animals?

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@theInfraPM I not only don’t use the cycle lane on that road but also ride down the middle of the lane. It’s a flat 20mph road (easily achieved on bike) so anyone overtaking is speeding by default. In addition, it’s narrow so riding secondary encourages drivers to close pass you.

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@ChaponaBike123 No from the Met in this case. When you say offence has to be clear, if you need to pause/slow down the video to see them using the phone do you think that's clear enough? It's quite hard to cycle and get more than a glance at the driver using their phone while moving.

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@ChaponaBike123 I ride a similar route to you (Walton to Putney Bridge) and have reported dozens of close-passes and phone driving to the met/Surrey and never got a response. According to the met this means they haven't been able to take action. Do you have any tips?

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@ChaponaBike123 I actually just got some responses back today where they've given a new unique reference number but it says to expect no further updates. Presumably these are cases that are being progressed? The submissions in question were people phone driving and a v. close pass.

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@peterrhague @34davidparsons I thought the stats were about 1 in 10 regret it, in the sense that if given a time machine they wouldn’t do it again? For me I wish I’d started sooner and had more, too.

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@MrMoss01 I think suggesting that difficult exams damage students’ mental health to justify moving boards is an irresponsible reach.

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Books are an extension of working memory; not a revision guide. 👍

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

During the Great Marking Era, exercise books became disproportionately valued as a record of teacher performance. With that era ending, we must radically evaluate the purpose of exercise books and what we expect to see in them.

In our dept, what we expect to see from books is:

Titles/LO
Basically no notes at all
Lots of work
90%+ of work self assessed in purple
Additions, emendations and corrections, not just ticks or crosses
No teacher marking
No full sentences
Broadly consistency in the quantity of work across a class
Do Nows in the back
Limited doodling
No random bits of paper floating around
Very very limited bits of paper stuck in (we use booklets or textbooks for the questions [not writing answers], to limit the faf of cutting and sticking)

Everything else (like notes) is provided to students separately. Their book is just an extension of their working memory. It's not a revision guide.