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http://www.youtube.com/thenobelprize

The Nobel Foundation has recently launched a YouTube channel called Ask a Nobel Laureate. Viewers can upload videos of themselves posing a question to a Nobel laureate. After a few weeks, the laureate-currently Albert Fert, who shared the 2007 physics prize-can be viewed answering the questions.

http://www.langorigami.com/science/4osme/abstracts/077%20You2.pdf

Expandable Tubes with Negative Poisson’s Ration and Their Application in Medicine is a short description of a novel idea: folding a flat piece of material into a tube in such a way that the tube will fatten when stretched. Zhong You and Kaori Kuribayashi’s summary not only explains how such tubes could be used as medical stents, it also shows how to make the tubes out of a sheet of paper.

http://anianet.com

Named after a fabled northern passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Anianet aims to promote contacts between Chinese and Western scholars. The online resource center alerts its Chinese membership about research opportunities in the West and provides a forum for exchanging advice. Currently, membership is restricted to Chinese researchers, both in China and abroad, but anyone can search and browse the profiles.