Web Watch

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http://iwaswondering.org

Last year, the National Academies Press published the 10-book series Women’s Adventures in Science. Aimed at middle-schoolers, the books seek to attract girls to science through the life and work of current women scientists. Now, much of the same material—and more—is available through iWASwondering, an interactive, multimedia website.

http://csee.lbl.gov/asteroid_impact

From the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory comes Frank Asaro Asteroid Impacts: The Inside Story, a detailed online account of chemist Frank Asaro’s contributions to confirming one of the 20th century’s most remarkable hypotheses—that a giant meteorite struck Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs.

http://qwiki.caltech.edu

A wiki is an online encyclopedia whose volunteer contributors cooperate to enhance and expand its entries. Barely a year old, Qwiki is devoted to all aspects of quantum science. Its curators, who work in Hideo Mabuchi’s lab at Caltech, hope their burgeoning resource will prove useful to practicing scientists, “the people,” as they put it, “who post content to the arXiv and quant-ph.”