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://inisdb.iaea.org

The International Nuclear Information System is the online archive of the International Atomic Energy Agency. A recent addition to the archive, which is accessible to the public, is a collection of 180 000 documents from the US Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information.

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2003/4/03.04.07.x.html

From the Yale–New Haven Teachers Institute comes The Physics of Cell Phones , a curriculum unit, with lesson plans, for teachers in grades 5 through 8. The unit’s introductory material provides a primer on cell phones that even PhD-holding physicists will find informative.

http://elementsofhumanity.com

In Elements of Humanity, 12 scientists and engineers speak informally in front of a video camera about their research and about what inspired them to choose their careers. The photo shows one of the interviewees, Drexel University’s Andrew Hicks, reflected in a nonreversing mirror that he designed. Make magazine created the website.