Web Watch

http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/nonlinear/sweater.html

In 1993, the University of Toronto’s Stephen Morris and his collaborators discovered that chaotic spirals would spontaneously form in a large-aspect-ratio Rayleigh-Bénard convection system. Mary de Bruyn, Morris’s sister, incorporated the spirals in a knitting pattern, which you can find at Spiral Defect Chaos in Knitting.

http://atlaseye-webpub.web.cern.ch/atlaseye-webpub/web-sites/pages/UX15_webcams.htm

Thanks to the UX15 Installation webcams, you can watch workers install the five-story-high ATLAS detector in the UX15 cavern at CERN. When the Large Hadron Collider comes on line next year, ATLAS will explore the physics frontier at 14 TeV.

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history

Columbia University was an early leader in the development of computers and computation. Wallace Eckert (shown here) was among the first scientists to solve complex problems with punch-card machines. You can learn more about Eckert and his fellow pioneers at Columbia University Computing History.

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