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Last year marked the 100th anniversary of Wolfgang Pauli’s birth. To commemorate the occasion, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has created Wolfgang Pauli and Modern Physics, an online exhibition devoted to Pauli’s life and work.
Zoltán Néda, a theoretical physicist at Romania’s Babes-Bolyai University, is interested in how synchronized clapping emerges from audiences’ applause. His Web page, The Sound of Many Hands Clapping, includes audio files of clapping, as well as links to the papers he and his collaborators have written about the topic.
As part of its mission to improve the lot of graduate and professional students, the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students last year surveyed 32 000 current and former students. The results of The 2000 National Doctoral Program Survey are now available online. Most of the...
