The New York Times is reporting that John Archibald Wheeler has died
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/sc...14wheeler.html
Here is an article at Princeton:
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/a...ion=topstories



Here is a video interview of Prof. Wheeler:
<a href="http://www.peoplesarchive.com/browse/movies/2359/en/off/">...

I've come across a really neat site that has some of the most configurable flash animations for physics. Click here

Flash is a great medium for showing physics dynamics!

If you are interested in developing your own animations or physics engines checkout this:
Click here

Back in 2005, we had the "World Year of Physics 2005" (WYP2005).

In 2009, we will have the "International Year of Astronomy 2009" (IYA2009).



From About IYA2009 at www.astronomy2009.org.

<blockquote>The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) will be a global celebration of astronomy and its contributions to society and culture, highlighted...

Some past entries focused on Physics Videos, more Physics Videos, and Physics Video contests.

neutrino's recent PF post reminded me about sciencehack.com, a search engine for science videos. Recently, CNN had a story "Scientists make videos for the Web" that describes new web-based resources for videos with scientific content.

SciVee ("operated in partnership with the Public Library of Science (PLoS), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)"...

Slashdot recently reported on Discover magazine's "Science in Two Minutes or Less" contest on String Theory. Brian Greene was the judge for the contest. The winner is String Ducky by Sandy Chase.

Such contests, which are based on submissions from the public, seem to have gotten more popular... probably partly due to the relative ease of producing video content with modern computers and user-friendly software, as well as the popularity of user-created content sites like YouTube....