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Jefferson Lab’s Science Education Web site provides an extensive collection of resources for teachers and students. Among the offerings are a primer on atomic physics, instructions for building an electromagnet, and an online coloring book about quarks.
JaxoDraw is a freely available Java program for drawing Feynman diagrams. Devised by Daniele Binosi and Lukas Theussl of the University of Valencia in Spain, JaxoDraw has a graphical user interface and the ability to export diagrams in several popular formats, including TeX and LaTeX.
Elena lives in Kiev, Ukraine. For fun, she rides her motorcycle through the empty roads in and around Chernobyl, 18 years ago the site of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident. Kid of Speed is her fascinating photo diary of her excursions.
