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[Phys-l] Fwd: AAPT NEWS: October Issue Now Available




The October issue has been published. Read it now at:
<http://www.aapt.org/aboutaapt/updates/October2006.cfm>

Here is a preview of the contents:

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NEWS HEADLINES
-Americans Win Nobel Prize in Physics
-New Ideas for X-Ray Lasers
-Einstein vs. the Nobel Prize
-Mystery of the Megavolcano
-Teaching Evolution and the Nature of Science
-Physics First Is Moving Slowly into Nation's High Schools
-Supersizing Stars
-The Ascent of Wind Power
-Royal Society Archives (1665-2006): Free Access
-Astronomers Spy First Planetary Disk Around Large Star
-NRC Issues Key Report on K-8 Science Education
-Moving Beyond String Theory
-Science-Based Cleanup of Rocky Flats
-Beyond Lecturing
-Almost Certain Escape from a Black Hole
-Video of the Month: Why Cats Land on Their Feet

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NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE

-The Physics Teacher Archive Now Back to 1963
-Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold: AAPT Joins on as National Partner
-Celebrating 75 Years
-Editors Sought for ComPADRE
-2006 Apparatus Competition Winners
-2006 AAPT/Lexmark High School Photo Contest Winners

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UPCOMING MEETINGS & EVENTS

AAPT Strand Day 2006: Save the Date
AAPT 2007 Winter Meeting: Save the Dates

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MEMBER NEWS

-Physics To Go Now Part of ComPADRE
-Research Experience for Teachers and Undergraduates Added to ComPADRE
-International Workshop on Historic Scientific Instrument Collections:
First Announcement
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