Web Watch

Carl Mungan, United States Naval Academy
mungan@usna.edu

A pictorial gallery of impactful scientific instruments of the twentieth century is at https://instruments.sciencehistory.org/.

A collection of science articles written and edited by kids can be enjoyed at https://kids.frontiersin.org/.

A network for K–12 STEM education researchers has been started with NSF support at http://cadrek12.org/.

A visualization of the most frequently assigned college textbooks (including for physics) can be explored starting at http://galaxy.opensyllabus.org/.

The process of evaporation is determined more by changes in pressure than temperature according to http://news.mit.edu/2019/physics-how-evaporation-works-0610.

Statistics pertaining to women studying STEM in college can be perused at https://www.bestcolleges.com/resources/where-women-study-stem/.

My attention was recently drawn to the list of the Back of the Envelope Problems that AJP published in the past. It is compiled at http://web.mit.edu/rhprice/www/Readers/backEnv.html.

A free open-source cross-platform video editor is available at https://www.shotcut.org/.

Award-winning science journalism is presented at http://showcase.casw.org/.

Finally, just for fun, an interactive map of the United States showing the most often searched for resident (using Wikipedia) from that city is online at https://pudding.cool/2019/05/people-map/.

Disclaimer – The articles and opinion pieces found in this issue of the APS Forum on Education Newsletter are not peer refereed and represent solely the views of the authors and not necessarily the views of the APS.