Web Watch

http://www.pdksciart.com

The PDK Poster Project portrays women scientists and their work in a series of dramatic yet personal posters. Designed by Pam Davis Kivelson and Inga Dorosz, the posters aim to encourage women and girls to pursue careers in the physical sciences and mathematics.

http://www.sound101.org

The physics and physiology of sound perception is the topic of BadVibes: The Hunt for the Worst Sound in the World. The interactive website, which has been put together by Trevor Cox, accompanies a major acoustics exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, England.

http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/cfs/media_frame.html

Harvard University’s Andrew Biewener and his colleagues study the mechanics of animal locomotion, including how wallabies hop, emus run, and cockatiels fly. To view Biewener’s experimental subjects in action, visit Movies and Media from the Concord Field Station.