Larry Weinstein is now the "Fermi Questions" Column Editor for the journal The Physics Teacher.

The title of Weinstein’s new column in The Physics Teacher magazine is "Fermi Questions", a term scientists use for the sort of questions that the renowned physicist Enrico Fermi could accurately estimate with quick applications of physical laws and numerical reasoning. At the first atomic bomb test, for example, Fermi dropped pieces of paper as the shock wave passed, and from the displacement of the paper and the distance to the explosion he accurately calculated the yield of the bomb.
 
The "Fermi Questions" column was accepted on a trial basis by The Physics Teacher magazine this spring (2007). The plan was to publish the column over several issues in order to gauge its popularity. But the response to Weinstein’s first effort in May was such that the column was elevated immediately to a regular feature of the magazine. In each column, the author poses two questions. The answers are also on the magazine’s Web site (visit http://scitation.aip.org/tpt/), then choose "Search" or "Browse" and scroll down to "Fermi Questions".