Physics Today on the web
Web Watch
transistor
http://www.pbs.org/transistor
The 50-year history of the transistor is the subject of Transistorized!, a TV program and Web page produced jointly by the Public Broadcasting Service and the American Institute of Physics. The TV program airs on your local PBS station at 10pm on 8 November.
The Professor
http://www.frightenstein.com/professor.html
Broadcast in Canada during the 1970s, the children's TV series The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, featured The Professor, a manic figure who demonstrated physics experiments. In fact, the Professor was played by a real-life physics educator, Julius Sumner Miller, whose obituary appeared in Physics Today's November 1987 issue on page 144.
Gallery of Mathematics
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ma/gallery
From the department of mathematical sciences at Loughborough University in England comes The Gallery of Mathematics. Molecular dynamics simulations are among the exhibits on display, as are Lyapunov pictures and so-called self-referential sentences that make true statements about their alphabetical contents.

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Compiled by Charles Day

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