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.opticsinfobase.org/spotlight

Spotlight on Optics provides accessible summaries of interesting and significant papers that appear in the 13 journals published by the Optical Society of America. The summaries appear about three times a week.

http://www.nv.doe.gov./library/films/testfilms.aspx

From the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Nevada Site office comes an online collection of Histrocal Tests films. The films cover the first US nuclear test, Trinity, in July 1945, through to the last US atmosperic test, Operation Dominic, Which ended in November 1962.

http://underthemicroscope.com

The stories in Under the Microscope are written by and about women in science and encompass a wide range of experience, from being a lab assistant in Princeton in the late 1940s to running a recycling program in Los Angeles today. Originally developed by IBM, the collection is published by the Feminist Press at the City University of New York and supported by NSF.