Web watch

To suggest topics or sites for Web Watch, please visit http://www.physicstoday.org/suggestwebwatch.html . Compiled and edited by Charles Day

http://www.hivegroup.com/stimulus

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, otherwise known as the Stimulus, provides nearly $800 billion to revive the US economy. At 407 pages, the act itself is huge. To get a visual overview of where all the money will go, visit Stimulus Spending Programs, an interactive graphic created by the Hive Group, an information technology consulting firm.

http://tinyurl.com/bp7xof

Milton Abramowitz and Irene Stegun’s Handbook of Mathematical Functions made its debut in 1964 and has been serving physicists and other scientists ever since. As a US government publication, the book has always been in the public domain. Google has scanned the text and made it freely available. In case you’re wondering, the image shows Γ(z).

http://www.occca.org/2009-02.html

The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Ana, California, recently put on The Art of Imaging , an exhibition of works that use medical images as main components. MRI, ultrasound, and other imaging modalities were represented at the show, which you can still sample at the exhibition’s website.