How
We Localize Sound
Relying on a variety of cues, including intensity,
timing, and spectrum, our brains recreate a three-dimensional
image of the acoustic landscape from the sounds we hear
-William M. Hartmann
The Virtual
Cook: Modeling Heat Transfer in the Kitchen
With a second-order differential equation and
a computer, the gastrophysicist can challenge much of the conventional
wisdom about how to grill a steak to perfection
-Harold McGee, Jack McInerney, and Alain Harrus
Composite
Materials-Reflections on the First Half Century
Advances made in understanding the properties
and behavior of composite materials are now powering the exploitation
of their immense potential
-Tony Kelly and Bill Clyne
Television
Goes Digital
The new technology is bringing images of unprecedented
clarity into our homes by exploiting the existing bandwidth and
pushing signal-to-noise ratios almost to their theoretical limits
- Louis A. Bloomfield
On Stickiness
The behavior of tacky materials is difficult to
quantify, involving as it does such dynamic phenomena as meniscus
instability, cavitation, and the formation of filaments
- Cyprien Gay and Ludwik Leibler
Physics
Update
Reference
Frame
Mass without
mass I: Most of matter --Frank Wilczek
Letters
Search
and Discovery
Researchers put a new spin on Bose-Einstein condensates..Gravitational
self-energy and the equivalence principle... Atom interferometer
measures g with same accuracy as optical devices
Washington
Reports
Senate
rejects Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, evoking defeat of Versailles
treaty 80 years ago...Krebs
steps down as science chief of DOE, breaking longevity record...
Brown eulogized as 'Mr. Science,' even as widow loses bid for
seat... Washington ins and outs: Meserve joins NRC; new faces
at State and NSF... Washington briefings: CIA's indebtedness to
James Bond; More visas for skilled foreigners put off
Physics
Community
Scientists view Kansas board's decision as a wake-up
call... South Africa is set to build large telescope... Johnson
is OSA vice president for 2000... Fuller becomes president of
SoR Women in science, in words and pictures... Merger of OSA and
SPIE is rejected...Web
Watch
Books
Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms, C. Cercignani
(reviewed by D. Ruelle) ...From Hiroshima to the Iceman:
The Development and Applications of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry,
H. E. Gove (reviewed by D. A. Bromley)... Quantum Field
Theory: From Operators to Path Integrals, K. Huang (reviewed
by M. E. Peskin)...An Introduction to Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics:
Oscillations, Waves, Patterns, and Chaos, I. R. Epstein and
J. A. Pojman (reviewed by G. Nicolis)... Acoustics: Basic Physics,
Theory, and Methods, P. Filippi, D. Habault, J.-P. Lefebvre,
and A. Bergassoli (reviewed by V. W. Sparrow)
New Products
Focus on spectroscopy
We Hear
That
Obituaries
Myron Lindsay Good... Melissa Charalambous.
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