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Compiled and edited by Charles Day

http://www.orau.org/ptp/museumdirectory.htm

Run by Oak Ridge Associated Universities and supported by the Health Physics Society, the Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Museum Collection holds equipment and other artifacts that reflect the changing uses of radioactivity and radiation. Among the items featured on the museum’s website are movie posters, quack cures, and Geiger counters.

http://www.fractalmusiclab.com

The iterative and recursive algorithms behind fractals can be used wholly or in part to generate music. David Strohbeen’s Fractal Music Lab contains a primer on composing fractal music, along with samples of the genre.

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/scenario/physlang.htm

Let’s Clean Up Our Physics Language urges Don Simanek, a physics professor at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania. His webpage offers modest proposals to banish such woolly and misleading phrases as “flow of current” from physicists’ vocabularies.