If you refer to arXiv very often and need to download citations, you might want to consider Zotero, a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.

go to:  http://www.zotero.org/

For those who must stay up with ArXive, there is ArXiview, a new iPhone application billed as “a very easy way to surf the last few weeks of arXiv postings.”   Developed by Paul Gingsparg then of the Los Alamos Nattional Laboratory and now of Cornell University, arXiv.org provides “Open Access to 534,588 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.” [04-24-09].

ArXiview was designed by Dave Bacon, a theoretical physicist at the University of Washington, http://dabacon.org/arxiview/

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Ok folks 100 Hours of Astronomy starts today!  Around the World in 80 Telescopes, a 24 hour observing run.  Check it out!

Free video streaming by Ustream

For the schedule go to: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/100-hours-of-astronomy

 Later this week starts 100 Hours of Astronomy

<http://www.100hoursofastronomy.org/>, running April 2–5. The focus is a worldwide marathon of amateur astronomers watching the sky, culminating in a star party during the final 24 hours, which coincides with the 3rd annual International Sidewalk Astronomy night. If you have a telescope and know how to use it, get out there! And if you don’t, now’s your chance to find one! Astronomical observatories will be participating via Around the World in 80 Telescopes

<http://100hoursofastronomy.org/program/75-live-24-hour-research-observatory-webcast>,

which will be a live webcast starting on Mauna Kea (with Gemini, Subaru, UKIRT, Keck, CFHT, SMA, CSO all participating) and then heading west until it gets back around to Lick and Palomar 24 hours later.

Keep up with the latest news by following the team on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/telescopecast

Local activities (as far as I know):

Blue Bell   

Downingtown   

Philadelphia 

Titisville  

Valley Forge 

Villanova   

Warminster 

West Chester  

For other locations go to:  http://www.100hoursofastronomy.org/find-events