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April 2010 Newsletter

Volume 39, Number 2

Cameron Reed, Editor

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In This Issue

Articles

  • Communicating Science to the Media, Kathryn Grim
  • Isotopes for the Nation’s Future, Donald F. Geesaman and Ani Aprahamian

Forum News

  • Report on Forum Executive Committee Meeting
  • FPS-Hosted Sessions at the APS April Meeting
  • AAPM Statement on Radiation Exposure
  • AIP FYI on Nuclear Waste

Commentary

  • Magnetic Fields, Health Care, Alternative Medicine and Physics, Eugenie Mielczarek
  • Lost in Translation: Jobs (Hint: We need an ARPA for Commerce), Tom Katsouleas
  • Grow Up and Emulate China on Energy, Robert Ehrlich

Letters

  • Letters, Carl G. Ribbing

Reviews

  • Beyond Sputnik: U.S. Science Policy in the 21st Century, Reviewed by Martin Epstein
  • Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb, Reviewed by Alvin M. Saperstein


Physics and Society is the non-peer-reviewed quarterly newsletter of the Forum on Physics and Society, a division of the American Physical Society. It presents letters, commentary, book reviews and articles on the relations of physics and the physics community to government and society. It also carries news of the Forum and provides a medium for Forum members to exchange ideas. Opinions expressed are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of the APS or of the Forum. Contributed articles (up to 2500 words, technicalities are encouraged), letters (500 words), commentary (1000 words), reviews (1000 words) and brief news articles are welcome. Send them to the relevant editor by e-mail (preferred) or regular mail.

Editor: Cameron Reed, Alma College, Alma, MI 48801, reed@alma.edu. Assistant Editor: Jonathan Wurtele, UC-Berkeley, wurtele@berkeley.edu. Reviews Editor: Art Hobson, ahobson@uark.edu. Electronic Media Editor: Andrew Post-Zwicker, azwicker@pppl.gov. Editorial Board: Ruth Howes, rhowes@bsu.edu; Barbara Levi, bglevi@msn.com; David Harris, david.harris@slac.stanford.edu. Layout at APS: Leanne Poteet, poteet@aps.org. Website for APS: webmaster@aps.orgPhysics and Society can be found on the Web.