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

The SciCafe channel on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrfcruGtplwG0Dj6cSfmH7RVnIP7CDirG has videos on science talks for the public that are typically 20 to 30 minutes in length.

Another YouTube channel worth browsing is Spangler Science at https://www.youtube.com/user/SpanglerScienceTV. Also see Iron Science Teacher at https://www.exploratorium.edu/video/collections/iron-science-teacher.

GitHub has an excellent student guide to MATLAB (written by textbook authors Nelson and Dodson) available at https://github.com/NelsonUpenn/PMLS-MATLAB-Guide.

Explore activities for teaching optics to children at https://www.optics4kids.org/. More broadly for a similar age group, browse Engineering Everywhere at https://www.eie.org/engineering-everywhere or JPL’s Engineering in the Classroom site at https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/resources/engineering-in-the-classroom.php.

Striking high-resolution microscopic photographs of insects can be viewed at http://microsculpture.net/microsculpture.html.

A technique to map 2D thermal properties of a surface with nanometer resolution is discussed at https://physics.aps.org/articles/v11/12.

A novel method of explaining the Fourier transform visually is presented at https://youtu.be/spUNpyF58BY. Also see the visual introduction to probability and statistics at https://students.brown.edu/seeing-theory/?vt=4.

A variety of educational resources related to seismology are available starting from https://www.iris.edu.

If, like me, you had a chemistry set as a child, you may enjoy browsing http://chemistryset.sciencehistory.org.

A detailed website about the last Apollo mission to the Moon is at http://apollo17.org/.

Academic genealogies (i.e., who was whom’s Ph.D. advisor) can be created and browsed at https://academictree.org/physics/.

National Geographic has richly illustrated maps of bird migrations at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/03/bird-migration-interactive-maps/.

View a home movie filmed at the 1927 Solvay Physics Conference at https://youtu.be/8GZdZUouzBY.

Delft University of Technology has started an online journal called “Superhero Science and Technology” at https://journals.library.tudelft.nl/index.php/superhero/index.

A website devoted to Isaac Newton’s involvement in alchemy is at http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/.

A real-time 3D map of stuff orbiting the Earth can be viewed at http://stuffin.space/.

NIST has a webpage devoted to the history and future of quantum information at
https://www.nist.gov/history-and-future-quantum-information.

NASA has a website devoted to astrobiology at https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/.

Finally, an interactive map of live radio streams around the world is online at http://radio.garden/live/.

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.