Spring 2024


Splash Biography



JAMES SIMON, ESP Teacher




Major: Physics

College/Employer: UC Berkeley

Year of Graduation: G

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Past Classes

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S846: 5 Absurd Ways to Bake a Cake with Science 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 in Splash Fall 2021 (Oct. 30, 2021)
Want to learn to bake at home? Too bad. In this class two physicists will push human scientific knowledge to its limits in the quest for sweets. Could you bake a cake with a proton beam, make brownies in the corona of the Sun, or fry donuts in an undersea vent? We'll answer these questions and more, giving absurd recipes for familiar treats. Also, have any weird questions of your own you're curious about? At the end of the talk, we'll open the floor to audience questions, working out answers on the fly.