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From the American Meteorological Society comes The AMS Video Journal, a series about the weather, climate, and their impact on society. In a recent video, Max Mayfield, the former director of the National Hurricane Center, examines how well forecasters predicted the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina.
The prolific inventor Jacob Rabinow is the subject of an exhibit at NIST’s Virtual Museum. Rabinow, who was born in 1910 in Kharkov, Ukraine, spent much of his career at NIST’s precursor, the National Bureau of Standards. There, he in vented, among other things, the first magnetic disk memory.
In Magnetic Movie, filmmakers Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt superpose animations of solar magnetic fields on filmed scenes from the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. The movie’s soundtrack is provided by...
