Newspaper articles and physics teaching

We describe here a physics teaching method which can motivate students and stimulate their creative thinking. Many sources of information from everyday life (for instance newspaper articles) contain facts which can be evaluated from a physical point of view, and the analysis of this information can be used to teach physics. It is a spontaneous and interesting way to show students that physics is not only a theoretical abstraction (a set of formal relations), but that it is primarily a useful tool, making critical evaluation possible of often passively accepted news from everyday life.