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Industrial Physicist Sina Kniseley |
Societies The American Association of Physics Teachers' mission is to enhance the appreciation and understanding of physics through teaching, and its members want to help others understand physics and the benefits that a physics background offers. |
Wired January 2005 Duff McDonald |
The BlackBerry Brain Trust First Mike Lazaridis reinvented the way we get email. Now he's rounded up a bunch of radical thinkers to reinvent physics itself at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. |
Popular Mechanics February 14, 2008 Erin McCarthy |
Jumper's Tricked-Out Teleportation: Hollywood Sci-Fi vs. Reality Director Doug Liman talks about his new film Jumper, featuring Star Wars vet Hayden Christensen as a kid with a genetic anomaly that allows him to skip through wormholes across the world. |
AskMen.com February 23, 2003 Bernie Alexander |
Comic Book Movies: Phenomenon Or Fad? Hollywood studios have realized that there's a lot of money to be made from adapting comic books to the big screen, especially after the huge success of the Superman, Batman and Spider-Man franchises. Let's take a look at some of the upcoming superhero movies. |
Reason March 2007 Kenneth Silber |
No Small Matter Is theoretical physics stuck? And should you worry? Book Review: The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next, by Lee Smolin. |
Salon.com August 17, 1999 Frank Houston |
Stan Lee The father of Spider-Man and the Silver Surfer invented the modern superhero, revived a dying industry and created a mythology. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Stephen Cass |
Thread-Bare Theories An interview with string-theory critic Lee Smolin about the challenges facing physics. |
Popular Mechanics April 21, 2008 Erik Sofge |
Hollywood Sci-Fi's Bronze Age: Are Comics to Blame? The big-screen iterations of Bruce Banner and Tony Stark are in mortal combat with smart science fiction. In a post-ComicCon, pre-summer blockbuster analysis, this article traces the decline of our favorite genre and looks for a future fix. |
Information Today April 9, 2015 |
CERN and Elsevier Further Their OA Goals New open access articles cover fields such as nuclear physics, instrumentation, astroparticle physics, and scientific computing. |
Industrial Physicist Feb/Mar 2003 Patrick Young |
Industry/Academia Training physicists for industry: For physicists, jobs in industry outnumber those in academia. As a consequence, and frequently as a preference, those with bachelor's degrees often seek an alternative to the physics Ph.D., some in a different discipline. |
Wired Adam Rogers |
Artist Dave Gibbons' Gut Feelings on the Watchmen Movie Long-time collaborator with Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons is best known for his illustrations of Superman, Green Lantern, The Originals, and Watchmen. |
Salon.com July 5, 2000 Janelle Brown |
Aliens: The sequel A tale of off-world visitation gave USWeb founder Joe Firmage no end of trouble -- but he's still alive, kicking and raising gobs of venture capital for his latest crusade. |
Wired June 2006 Gaiman & Rogers |
The Myth of Superman In An Unlikely Prophet, soon to be reissued in paperback this Spring, Alvin Schwartz describes that Superman is a real man, not just a comic book hero. |
Teacher Magazine May 2000 Jeffrey Weld |
Fly Guys New science teachers face the Herculean task of teaching the right way without drawing fire for transgressing an often faulty traditional model |
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Cori Vanchieri. |
Susan Singer: A Magical Moment The time to entice students to be STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teachers is during the first years of college, says Susan Singer, a professor of natural sciences at Carleton College. |
Science News July 18, 2009 Paul Fendley |
Five Problems In Physics Without The Definite Article Most physicists don't consider a phenomenon to be understood until there are both repeatable experiments displaying it and a quantitative theoretical description. |
Wired June 2006 Thomas Goetz |
Bryan Singer & the Man of Steel The mild-mannered director behind the X-Men movies is on a mission to save Superman from the Hollywood hacks. |
Science News September 26, 2008 Heather Benjamin |
Physics For Future Presidents: The Science Behind The Headlines In this election year, Richard A. Muller has put together a guide for the country's incoming leader that shares statistics and corrects misunderstandings relating to terrorism, energy, nuclear weapons, space and global warming. |
Scientific American August 2008 |
Readers Respond on Doping in Sports--And more... Letters to the editor on environmental economics, the color of alien plants, and nuclear smuggling. |