“The Science of Harry Potter,” is a three-credit honors seminar new this fall at Frostburg State University.
Could antigravity research produce a flying broomstick? Can Fluffy, the three-headed dog, be explained by genetic engineering?
Those are some of the questions physics professor George R. Plitnik is exploring with 15 students, mostly juniors and seniors. He says the class is not all fun and games, despite his penchant for dressing up as Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Via The Washington Times: Metropolitan