Physics

Your Career: Guidance for teens
For many teens and their parents, figuring out a career path early on has become increasingly important. Some are turning to counseling services like CareerVision.

Your Career: Should you admit a mistake?
Accepting blame for our mistakes has become passé. Just look at the financial sector’s collapse. Few have lined up to take the fall for Wall Street’s fall.

Proposed bill would be boon to unions
The Employee Free Choice Act could speed up the process of forming a union by allowing workers to bypass a formal vote and imposing hefty fines on employers that violate employee rights.

Wall Street workers leaving NYC for fresh start
Bankers and brokers looking to escape the financial meltdown are scrambling to relocate their families, possessions and rarified talent far from Wall Street to places such as Florida, Chicago, Milwaukee, Virginia and Asia.

Stressed? Your boss’s gender may be to blame
Bosses in general can be a pain in the ... well, you know, but a new study finds that your boss’s gender can affect just how much pain he or she seems to inflict.

How to survive and thrive after a merger
After a merger, employees don’t know what to expect. But if you survive layoffs, it's a good time to come up with a strategy to survive and thrive in the new company.

Your Career: Job hunting on Wall Street? Join the club
If your work on Wall Street, now is the time to update your resume. No matter how you look at it, the jobs landscape in the financial sector will never look the same.

PhysLINK
Links to physics departments, physical societies, journals, job information, and other physics related information.

Scientific American - Questions That Plague Physics
A conversation with Lawrence M. Krauss, chair of the physics department at Case Western Reserve University. [PDF] (August, 2004)

PhysicsWeb
Physics news, jobs, equipment buyer's guide, and events.

Usenet Physics FAQ
sci.physics frequently asked questions with answers.

Physics News Graphics
Diagrams (with captions) appearing in various AIP publications, sorted by category or by date.

Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Physics
Online encyclopedia of physics terms and formulas. Full searchable, and also browsable alphabetically and by topic. Part of Eric's Treasure Troves of Science.

The Net Advance of Physics
MIT resource providing discussions at various levels of sophistication that cover all areas of physics.

Physics Today
News, feature articles, reviews, obituaries, and other items from the monthly magazine for the physics community. [RSS]

Physics on MathPages
Articles, leaning towards a mathematical description, on a wide range of topics in physics.

The Physical World
Answers to simple physics questions, from New Scientist.

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