The Curse of Inertia

What’s inertia, you say? An object a rest tends to stay at rest. An object in motion tends to stay in motion. That, more or less, is inertia. I have a hard time with inertia some days. Inertia makes me not want to leave the house. Inertia makes me turn down invitations from friends. Those days, I am an object at rest and I want to stay at rest. Today I fought off inertia to go have lunch with some friends at a pretty park in Portland. I really wanted to stay home. The morning was off to a bad … Continue reading

The HENSE Club: Inertia

If you’re new to this series, let me give you a small explanation of HENSE. HENSE stands for Home Educators who Never do Science Experiments. This growing population of home educators don’t do science experiments for a variety of reasons: they don’t really like science, experiments are messy and take to long and aren‘t worth it, especially if they don‘t work. But actually doing the experiment, is critical to learning the scientific method. In our last HENSE blog, we talked about scientific concoctions. This time we will make the leap from Chemistry to Physical Science. Today we will just talk … Continue reading