Web watch
DOI: 10.1063/1.3463624
To suggest topics or sites for Web Watch, please visit http://www.physicstoday.org/suggestwebwatch.html . Compiled and edited by Charles Day
psufoodscience.typepad.com/psu_food_science
From the food science department of the Pennsylvania State University comes the informative and entertaining blog The Science of Food. The blog has a food physics category, where you can find posts about freezer burn, an aggregation phenomenon known as the Cheerio Effect, and other topics. The blog is noteworthy for providing links to the scientific papers it mentions.
www.cifarnbq.ca
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research is sponsoring a series of public debates and discussions designed to engage the public in setting the nation’s research priorities. Under the title the Next Big Question, the debates tackle problems such as Can we build a brain? and Where can quantum computing carry us? and What is the fate of the universe? Besides summarizing the debates, the series website also provides a means to vote for your favorite question.
www.nsf.gov/eyesonthesky
At NSF’s website Eyes on the Sky you can find descriptions and images of the ground-based observatories that NSF supports. The site also describes the astrophysical and cosmological questions that the observatories were built to tackle.
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Charles Day, American Center for Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, Maryland 20740-3842, US .
