Web Watch

http://www.bbso.njit.edu/arm/latest

From the Big Bear Solar Observatory in Big Bear Lake, California, comes the BBSO Active Region Monitor. The online service provides the most recent images of the Sun taken by a host of terrestrial and orbiting observatories. Images include magnetograms from the Global Oscillation Network Group.

http://www.comdig.org

Every week, Pennsylvania State University’s Gottfried Mayer compiles the Complexity Digest, an online list of journal articles and news stories that concern, or merely touch on, the science of complexity. Linguistics, chaos, and pathology are just a few of the subjects that appear in the digest.

http://www.jal.cc.il.us/~mikolajsawicki/bad_physics.htm

If you spot an example of faulty physics in the popular press, inform Mikolaj “Mik” Sawicki, a physics professor at John A. Logan College in Carterville, Illinois. Sawicki edits Bad Physics, a compendium of misunderstood physics found in newspapers, magazines, and literature.

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