Web watch
DOI: 10.1063/1.2774095
To suggest topics or sites for Web Watch, please visit http://www.physicstoday.org/suggestwebwatch.html . Compiled and edited by Charles Day
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/blackboard
In 1931 Albert Einstein gave several lectures at Oxford University. One of the blackboards he wrote on has never been erased since his visit. To celebrate the centenary of the special theory of relativity, the university invited Martin Rees, Robert May, Brian Eno, and other notable inhabitants or Britain to write on blackboards like Einstein’s. You can see the results, along with the 1931 original, at the exhibition Bye Bye Blackboard.
http://www.langorigami.com
Former physicist Robert Lang devotes his life to the art and science of origami. His website Robert J. Lang Origami exhibits his creations, which start off as uncut squares of paper. It also covers mathematics of origami and its applications to such problems as optimizing the performance of automobile airbags.
http://www.scitalks.com
A videotaped interview with Nobel laureate Walter Kohn is one of the clips available at SciTalks, a new online clearinghouse for science videos. Like its inspiration, the popular YouTube, SciTalks lets you upload and rank videos.
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