Project Tuva, the new interactive video application developed for Microsoft Research, is featuring Richard Feynman’s 1964 Messenger Lecture Series presented at Cornell University.

Project Tuva (for Microsoft Research) from Stimulant on Vimeo.

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/

What can I say? It’s Friday afternoon and these folks always lighten up the day or sends one into a depression to rival the economic one we’re hurling towards.

My question: These papers get published? Who were the peer reviewers?

Check out this year’s winners:

http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2008

Finding the best in physics now becomes easier with the formal launch of Physics,
http://physics.aps.org/
a new, free, online publication from the American Physical Society. Physics will highlight and provide commentary on selected papers from among the extensive publications of Physical Review Letters and the Physical Review series. Optional weekly email updates will keep readers apprised of important new articles as they appear.

Physics aims to meet those needs by means of three features, all with original content.

• Viewpoints discuss and explain a particular paper’s findings in a manner accessible to all physicists, especially to those outside its subspecialty.
• Trends are longer pieces that cover a recent body of work in a specific field, but also look ahead to the challenges and questions that fascinate that field’s top researchers.
• Synopses are staff-written summaries of papers that merit wider attention among physicists in all fields.

They do seem to have fun at CERN!

 
CERN Rap from Will Barras on Vimeo.