Before he was a Physics Today editor, Steve Blau taught physics at a liberal arts college in Wisconsin—and before that, he researched various ramifications of field theory. In “The Path to a Job in Editing, Including Two Roads Not Taken,” Steve looks back at the pros and cons of his three careers.
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a new and effective method for treating cancer with x rays. Physics Today’s online editor, Charles Day, reports on the high-tech advances in beam control, computer modeling, and other areas that underlie SBRT.
In his blog The Dayside, Charles Day writes about climate-change skeptics, manipulating journal impact factors, the molecular underpinnings of color vision, the element palladium, this year’s physics Nobel, and the attractions of working in Singapore.
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