Web Watch
DOI: 10.1063/1.1537909
To suggest topics or sites for Web Watch, please phone me at (301) 209–3036.
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/MediaGuide.pdf
Getting your message across in an interview or press conference can be quite challenging, especially on live TV or radio. If your media savvy needs a boost, take a look at You and the Media, a 32-page booklet published by the American Geophysical Union and written by Herbert Funsten, a space physicist from Los Alamos National Laboratory.
http://www.aip.org/history/syllabi
On its Learning History of Physics page, AIP’s Center for History of Physics has collected sample syllabuses from several noted experts. Among the offerings is Science from Aristotle to Newton, a course that Stephen Brush began teaching two years ago at the University of Maryland, College Park.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/webcasts
The Exploratorium in San Francisco produces a series of Webcasts on the science of food and cooking. Appropriately for the holiday season, December’s program takes champagne as its topic.
Sparkling Science: Champagne airs on the Web at 4 PM PST on 28 December. Audio and video recordings of the show will be available if you miss the live action.
More about the authors
Charles Day, American Center for Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, Maryland 20740-3842, US .
