Web Watch

http://www.bluesci.org

BlueSci is a print and online magazine devoted making science accessible to a broad readership. Now entering its second year, the magazine is produced once a term by students and postdocs at the University of Cambridge in England.

http://www.genealogy.ams.org

David Hilbert (1862-1 943) had 73 students. Some of those students, like Hermann Weyl (1885-1955), also had students—who had students, and so on. Hilbert’s academic descendants now total 11 407. To investigate the academic family trees of Hilbert, Weyl, and other mathematicians, visit the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

http://www.pnas.org/contents-by-date.0.shtml

For some time, research papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have been available free of charge six months after publication. Now, free access to the journal’s contents extends all the way back to volume 1, issue 1, which appeared on 15 January 1915.

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