NOVA has a Physics Blog

NOVA’s Physics Blog

·http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/blog/

NOVA’s Physics Blog is billed as “the physics of noth­ing, every­thing, and all the things in between.” This “Nature of Real­ity” blog promises “a space that wel­comes big ideas about space, time, and the uni­verse.” The posts here include graph­ics, ani­ma­tions, and other visu­ally com­pelling mate­ri­als. Vis­i­tors can scroll down on the right side of the page to look over Recent Posts, Recent Com­ments, and the con­trib­u­tors to the blog. It’s a diverse group, includ­ing math­e­mati­cian James Stein and physi­cist Frank Wilczek. Recent posts include “Why is the Higgs So Light?” and “Sci­en­tific Approaches to the Fine-Tuning Prob­lem.” Each entry con­cludes with the Go Deeper area, which fea­tures the editor’s picks for fur­ther read­ing. [KMG]

Source:  Today’s Scout Report from the Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin

Cambridge University puts Isaac Newton papers online [BBC News]

The note­books in which Sir Isaac New­ton worked out the the­o­ries on which much clas­si­cal sci­ence is based have been put online by Cam­bridge University.

More than 4,000 pages have been scanned, includ­ing his anno­tated copy of Prin­cipia Math­e­mat­ica, con­tain­ing Newton’s laws of motion and gravity.”

To read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-16141723

Source: Library Link of the Day, Dec. 15, 2011

 

History of the Earth, timeline of evolution of the Universe

http://www.johnkyrk.com/evolution.html

This is by far the best inter­ac­tive dis­play for the evo­lu­tion of the earth that I have found on the inter­net. It cre­ates awe and won­der along with hold­ing a real value to link­ing con­cepts in so many areas.”

From Delicious,  Nejedj71 posted  Sept. 14, 2011

Google Earth News

Among the updates to Google Earth are the following:

New and updated imagery from Mars

UNESCO World Her­itage Sites

3D build­ing facades for 5 cities in CA, and now Philadel­phia, Port­land, Austin &  Chicago

From the UN Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence (COP15) is Cli­mate Change Tours

Source: The Sight­seer Newslet­ter | Decem­ber 2009

Google Earth Sight­seer Newslet­ter [googlearth@google.com]

 

Science — the “Moon Issue” — January 30, 1970

In com­mem­o­ra­tion of the 40th anniver­sary of the “moon walk”, AAAS and Sci­ence has made this issue avail­able to every­one.  Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity has had access via JSTOR for some time:  http://www.jstor.org/stable/i299517

At the AAAS link, you’ll see the link to the spe­cial “Moon issue”