A bike tyre is like an air conditioner
Pumping up your bike tyre is the same as an air-conditioner , and your fridge…
The latest from my Phil Up On Science YouTube channel
Pumping up your bike tyre is the same as an air-conditioner , and your fridge…
The latest from my Phil Up On Science YouTube channel
Excited to be in Adelaide in 2019 for my first Fringe! Doing seven shows in six days, all at the Rob Roy Hotel, 106 Halifax St South Adelaide.
Tuesday 12th March: Physics in the Pub (booked out)
Wednesday 13 March – Solo Show
The Most Amazing Planet in the Universe – an Astronomer’s Ode to Earth
Thursday 14th March – Sunday 17th March
The Poet’s Guide to Science – a hilarious play of modern dilemmas, featuring working scientists
Tickets on sale now for shows in Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide Fringe. Melbourne earlybird tickets on sale until the Friday 11 January – snap them up!
We like to think we are special and we live on the only planet. But astronomers have recently discovered thousands of weird and wonderful planets orbiting other stars – there may be billions more.
But Earth is still the most amazing planet – the reasons why will surprise you.
If an alien were to visit, they would be astounded. Earth is shrouded in a corrosive and unstable gas, oxygen. Water regularly falls from the sky in liquid and even solid form (rocks falling from the sky?!).
And there are bizarre organisms covering the land that are green: logically, plants should be purple!
Dr Phil’s songs and stories will take you on a trip around the cosmos and reveal the surprising things that make our world special.
An uplifting show that will thrill you, entertain you and wow you.
Dr Phil is a physicist, entertainer, pianist and singer. He’s performed shows in Science shows and festivals around the world including Glasgow, Sydney, and London. By day he’s a science writer for Cosmos Magazine, New Scientist, Australian Geographic and more, and was selected for the 2018 Anthology of Best Australian Science Writing.
Catch the show in
Canberra: 29 January 2019, Smiths Alternative
Melbourne: 4 – 9 February 2019, The Butterfly Club
Adelaide Fringe: 13 March 2019, Rob Roy Hotel
It’s all about microfarts, angled pours and French women’s breasts. Have a happy new year!
Y’all have a great christmas and a very merry perihelion!
Hurrah – 1000 views on my Phil Up On Science YouTube channel for the Plastic Spaghetti video.
Professor Rod Boswell from ANU shows off a nanosatellite and explains how they are revolutionising the space industry.
There’s been a lot of news about the electrician who got busted hiding his phone/PDA in a foil Twisties packet to prevent his company from tracking him… so he could go play golf.
So I decided to give it a whirl, in some chocolate wrapper. And then try out the microwave. but that wasn’t so successful!
From Physics in the Pub 2016, a great set from Leon Twardy about sound waves, how microphones work, and how an acoustic guitar steals energy from the future.
The Rubens Tube is a really complicated demo that seems simple. Once you start thinking about it you realise that sound antinodes are points of oscillating pressure, so the flames shouldn’t be stable peaks – they should be going up and down at the frequency of the wave!
And if you change the gas pressure a lot the nodes and antinodes reverse position! Wish I’d thought these points through before Derek asked me to film this!