Web Watch

http://insideout.rigb.org

Since its foundation in 1800, Britain’s Royal Institution has been telling the general public about science. Among the institution’s latest endeavors is InsideOut, a Web site aimed at schoolchildren and their teachers.

http://www.norc.org/issues/docdata.htm

Every year, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago publishes its Survey of Earned Doctorates. The survey for 2002 is now available online and contains a wealth of statistical information, including the median age at graduation. Males who earned PhDs in physics and astronomy in 2002 were 30.6 years old on average when they graduated. Their female counterparts were almost a whole year younger.

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu

CODATA, the Committee on Data for Science and Technology, promotes the accuracy and accessibility of data. Its latest set of recommended values of the fundamental physical constants has recently been incorporated into the NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty.

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