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http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/56

To help counter demands that modern cosmology be banished from K–12 science curricula, the Astronomy Education Board of the American Astronomical Society has written an article for teachers entitled “An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time.” The article is available on the education board’s Web site, The Universe in the Classroom.

http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics

Tom Rogers, a high-school science teacher in Greenville, South Carolina, has reviewed the physics that appears in popular movies and found it wanting. On his Web site, Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics , he describes the commonest blunders and reviews and rates movies according to accuracy of their physics content.

http://www.cap.ca/pic.htm

Physics in Canada Online is the Web version of the bimonthly magazine of the Canadian Association of Physicists. At present, most of the content of each print issue is not available online. However, the magazine’s books department is fully accessible. Visitors to the Web site can even volunteer to review any of the recently received books.

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