Learning by Being: A Human-Powered Ping-Pong Ball Nuclear Reactor

Learning can be both fun and effective when a complex concept is distilled to a laughably simple analog. If sufficiently silly, the analog will lend itself to repeated discussion in follow-up conversations, propagating its educational value well beyond the initial presentation. Another effective tool is experiential learning, about which much has been written elsewhere. The combination of these two – i.e., a laughably simple experiential analog – can be potent.