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Education and outreach

Education and outreach

The power of the blackboard

Credit: Alexa Meade/Perimeter Institute
01 Jun 2017
Taken from the June 2017 issue of Physics World

Despite us living in an era of PowerPoint, smartboards and digital projection, the traditional blackboard still retains an aura and usefulness for physicists that more advanced technologies can’t match, as Philip Ball finds

Do an online image search for Richard Feynman. Go on, try it now. What do you notice? He’s a photo

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Philip Ball is a science writer and author. His latest book is The Water Kingdom (Bodley Head), e-mail p.ball@btinternet.com
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