This past summer I was fortunate enough to attend the AAPT meeting in Boston; what an invigorating event it was! So many of my favorite people, all talking about one of my favorite subjects (physics teaching), and dozens of other scintillating conversations besides. There were really great plenary speakers, fascinating parallel sessions about physics education, a great demo show, a fun game night, interesting workshops and poster sessions, an effervescent exhibit hall, the AAPT High School Physics Photo Contest, and much more. In one of the invited talks by our past Physics Challenge Editor, Boris Korsunsky, I was reminded of the little puzzle above, a version of which almost always made it into my teaching about gravity, so I thought I would share a bit of the fun from the meeting here in TPT this month. Many of the participants at the 2024 summer AAPT meeting are included below, in...

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