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From the food science department of the Pennsylvania State University comes the informative and entertaining blog The Science of Food. The blog has a food physics category, where you can find posts about freezer burn, an aggregation phenomenon known as the Cheerio Effect, and other topics. The blog is noteworthy for providing links to the scientific papers it mentions.
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research is sponsoring a series of public debates and discussions designed to engage the public in setting the nation’s research priorities. Under the title the Next Big Question, the debates tackle problems such as Can we build a brain? and Where can quantum computing carry us? and What is the fate of the universe? Besides summarizing the debates, the series website also provides a means to vote...
