Last update:
Mon Feb 16 11:20:44 MST 2004
Lawrence H. Ford and
Thomas A. Roman Negative Energy, Wormholes and Warp
Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Ian Tattersall Once We Were Not Alone . . . . . . . . . 56
Yuri Ts. Oganessian and
Vladimir K. Utyonkov and
Kenton J. Moody Voyage to Superheavy Island . . . . . . 63
Paul F. Hoffman and
Daniel P. Schrag Snowball Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Jerome M. Siegel Narcolepsy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Richard F. Post Maglev: A New Approach . . . . . . . . . 82
Malcolm Potts The Unmet Need for Family Planning . . . 88
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Roll Back Malaria . . . . . . . 104, 107
James Burke Connections: On the Ball . . . . . . . . 105--106
Anonymous In Focus: Fast, cheap and out of
control? NASA's strategy shows its
drawbacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Torrence V. Johnson The Galileo Mission to Jupiter and Its
Moons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
John S. Wettlaufer and
J. Greg Dash Melting Below Zero . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Patricia M. Rodier The Early Origins of Autism . . . . . . 56
Julie Dorsey and
Pat Hanrahan Digital Materials and Virtual Weathering 64
Howard Herzog and
Baldur Eliasson and
Olav Kaarstad and
David W. Keith and
Edward A. Parson Capturing Greenhouse Gases . . . . . . . 72
Sönke Johnsen Transparent Animals . . . . . . . . . . 80
W. Ford Doolittle Uprooting the Tree of Life . . . . . . . 90
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Time Travelers in the Field . . 105, 107
James Burke Connections: Steamboats, land deals and
seismographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
John Rennie From the Editors: The Second War of the
Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Glenn Zorpette Why Go to Mars? The main goal will be to
look for life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
George Musser and
Mark Alpert How to Go to Mars . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Robert Zubrin The Mars Direct Plan . . . . . . . . . . 34
S. Fred Singer To Mars by Way of Its Moons . . . . . . 38
James Oberg and
Buzz Aldrin A Bus between the Planets . . . . . . . 40
Sarah Simpson Staying Sane in Space . . . . . . . . . 43
Michael W. Young The Tick-Tock of the Biological Clock 46
Philip Yam Invaders from Hollywood . . . . . . . . 62--63 (Intl. ed. 44)
Eric Bonabeau and
Guy Théraulaz Swarm Smarts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--79
Tim Beardsley Dissecting a Hurricane . . . . . . . . . 80
Gustavo Martinelli and
Ricardo Azoury The Bromeliads of the Atlantic Forest 86
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Sun-Stains . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
James Burke Connections: Evolution and ether . . . . 106--107 (Intl. ed. 86)
Anonymous 50,100 & 150 Years Ago: Einstein, the
H-Bomb and Whale Harpoons . . . . . . . 14
Brian Greene Profile: String theorist and physics
star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Special Report: National Medal of
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anton Zeilinger Quantum Teleportation . . . . . . . . . 50
Joe Z. Tsien Building a Brainier Mouse . . . . . . . 62
Justin A. Zivin Understanding Clinical Trials . . . . . 69
Gibor Basri The Discovery of Brown Dwarfs . . . . . 76
George B. Dyson The Aleutian Kayak . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Michael D. King and
David D. Herring Monitoring Earth's Vital Signs . . . . . 92
Kate Wong Trends In Paleoanthropology: Who Were
the Neandertals? . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: A furnace in a
thermos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Bullish on
mooo-thematics: Counting the Cattle of
the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: The Lion Emperors . . . . . . . 117, 119
James Burke Connections: Water Music . . . . . . . . 118--119
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Mind Reading This? . . . . 120--120
Erik Asphaug The Small Planets . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Jon William Toigo Special Industry Report: Avoiding a Data
Crunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Frans B. M. de Waal and
Filippo Aureli and
Peter G. Judge Coping with Crowding . . . . . . . . . . 76
William J. Nellis Making Metallic Hydrogen . . . . . . . . 84
Carol Ezzell Care for a Dying Continent . . . . . . . 96
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Netting the Deep Sky . . . . . 116, 118
James Burke Connections: What a Nerve . . . . . . . 117--118
Mark Fischetti and
Gary Stix When Life Knows No Bounds . . . . . . . 6
Kathryn Brown How Long Have You Got? To 120 years old
and beyond. Plus: World's Oldest
Creatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Polly Shulman Design for Living: Centenarians can
teach us how to age gracefully . . . . . 18
J. R. Brandstrader From Baby Boom to Geezer Glut . . . . . 22
Robin Marantz Henig Living Longer: What Really Works? . . . 30
Paul C. Sereno Profile: Dinosaur Hunter Paul C. Sereno:
Paleontology's Indiana Jones . . . . . . 36--37
Kathryn Brown A Radical Proposal . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Jeffrey Boutwell and
Michael T. Klare A Scourge of Small Arms . . . . . . . . 48
Richard F. Mollica Invisible Wounds . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Walter C. Clemens, Jr. and
J. David Singer The Human Cost of War . . . . . . . . . 56
Mike May Mother Nature's Menders . . . . . . . . 56
Neil G. Boothby and
Christine M. Knudsen Children of the Gun . . . . . . . . . . 60
Sara C. Beck Dwarf Galaxies and Starbursts . . . . . 66
John D. Scott and
Tony Pawson Cell Communication: The Inside Story . . 72
Ken Howard Stopping Cancer Before It Starts . . . . 80
Clark Spencer Larsen Reading the Bones of La Florida . . . . 80
Mark A. Reed and
James M. Tour Computing with Molecules . . . . . . . . 86
Delia K. Cabe Saving Hearts That Grow Old . . . . . . 87
Catherine Johnson Promised Land or Purgatory? . . . . . . 92
Anonymous Looking for Life Below the Bottom . . . 94
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: A homemade heart
monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Steve Mirsky It Smells of Immortality . . . . . . . . 104
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Not all
paradoxes are created equal . . . . . . 108
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: The Internet as Hardware . . . 113, 115
James Burke Connections: All at Sea . . . . . . . . 114--115
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Great Feets . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: Smoking and
Cancer, Pioneers of Flight (or Fright) 12
Baruch S. Blumberg Profile: Astrobiologist Baruch S.
Blumberg seeks life's origin . . . . . . 30
Ian Crawford Searching for Extraterrestrials: Where
Are They? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Andrew J. LePage Searching for Extraterrestrials: Where
They Could Hide . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
George W. Swenson, Jr. Intragalactically Speaking . . . . . . . 44
Kathryn Brown The Human Genome Business Today . . . . 50
Ken Howard The Bioinformatics Gold Rush . . . . . . 58
Carol Ezzell Beyond the Human Genome . . . . . . . . 64
Chris Llewellyn Smith The Large Hadron Collider . . . . . . . 70
Ernst Mayr Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought . . 78
David P. Billington The Revolutionary Bridges of Robert
Maillart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Marguerite Holloway The Killing Lakes . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Copying DNA in
your kitchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Knotting
ventured, knotting gained . . . . . . . 104--105
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Time Exposures . . . . . . . . 109, 111
James Burke Connections: Not What It Seems . . . . . 110--111
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Alcohol, Tobacco and Soy
Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous The Los Alamos fire's aftermath . . . . 16
Tillman U. Gerngross and
Steven C. Slater How Green Are Green Plastics? . . . . . 36
Thomas P. Ray Fountains of Youth: Early Days in the
Life of a Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Paul R. Epstein Cover Story: Is Global Warming Harmful
to Health? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Arvind Varma Form from Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Nima Arkani-Hamed and
Savas Dimopoulos and
Georgi Dvali The Universe's Unseen Dimensions . . . . 62
Irwin Goldstein and
the Working Group Male Sexual Circuitry . . . . . . . . . 70
Rachel Laudan Birth of the Modern Diet . . . . . . . . 76
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Raising a
plankton menagerie . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: A fractal
guide to tic-tac-toe . . . . . . . . . . 86
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Laws of Calorie Counting . . . 93, 95
James Burke Connections: The Grand Plan . . . . . . 94--95
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Measure for Measure . . . 96--96
Keay Davidson Our National Passion . . . . . . . . . . 6
Gary Stix and
Mark Fischetti Introduction: Game Theory . . . . . . . 6
Bruce Schechter How Much Higher? How Much Faster? . . . 10
Richard Monastersky Forecasting Is No Picnic . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Mars: not beachfront property, but\ldots 14
Rob Neyer A Matter of Size . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Glenn Zorpette The Chemical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Eugene Raikhel Decoding the Forecast . . . . . . . . . 20
Jeffrey Rosenfeld The Butterfly That Roared . . . . . . . 22
Gary Taubes Toward Molecular Talent Scouting . . . . 26
Jeffrey Rosenfeld Do We Need the National Weather Service? 28
Robert Henson Billion-dollar Twister . . . . . . . . . 32
Marguerite Holloway The Female Hurt . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Michael Shermer Psyched Up, Psyched Out . . . . . . . . 38
Eugene Raikhet Extreme Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Jim Reed Fleeing Floyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Polly Shulman Blowing the Whistle on Concussions . . . 44
Gary Taubes The Famine of Youth . . . . . . . . . . 44
Jesper L. Andersen and
Peter Schjerling and
Bengt Saltin Muscle, Genes and Athletic Performance 48
Karen Wright Big Sky, Hot Nights, Red Sprites . . . . 48
Evelyn Strauss Counting the Lives of a Cell . . . . . . 50
Karen Wright Watching Your Steps . . . . . . . . . . 52
Randy Cerveny It's Raining Eels: A Compendium of Weird
Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Tim Beardsley Tempests from the Sun . . . . . . . . . 56
Laurance R. Doyle and
Hans-Jörg Deeg and
Timothy M. Brown Searching for Shadows of Other Earths 58
Michael Menduno No Way Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
David Pescovitz Spare Parts for Vital Organs . . . . . . 62
Delia K. Cabe Going through the Motions . . . . . . . 64
Daniel Pendick Cloud Dancers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
William H. R. Langridge Edible Vaccines . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Evelyn Strauss Of Hyperaging and Methuselah Genes . . . 68
Pearl Tesler Asphalt Acrobats . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Phil Scott Weatherproofing Air Travel . . . . . . . 70
John-Mark Hopkins and
Wilson Sibbett Ultrashort-Pulse Lasers: Big Payoffs in
a Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Mia Schmiedeskamp Preventing Good Brains from Going Bad 72
Mike May The Athletic Arms Race . . . . . . . . . 74
Laurence Lippseft Beyond El Nino . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Sasha Nemecek Trends In Archaeology: Who Were the
First Americans? . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Bruce Schechter The Unblinking Eye . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Ben Bova Out of This World . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Robert Silman The Plan to Save Fallingwater . . . . . 88
Rita Baron-Faust Under the Weather . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Gary Taubes Deconstructing the Taboo . . . . . . . . 90
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Aerial
Photography: Using a Kite as an
Experimental Platform . . . . . . . . . 98--99
Randy Cerveny Lights, Camera, Weather . . . . . . . . 98
Eugene Raikhel Cults of the Undying . . . . . . . . . . 98
Reinout van Wagtendonk Unlikely Domin-ation . . . . . . . . . . 98
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: The
mind-bending challenge of Hex . . . . . 100
Steve Mirsky Channeling the Weather . . . . . . . . . 104
Steve Mirsky A Sphere and Present Danger . . . . . . 104
Diane Martindale Weather on the Web . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: From Protocols to Language . . 107, 110
James Burke Connections: The Last Word . . . . . . . 108, 110
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Name Recognition . . . . . 112--112
Kathryn S. Brown Warming To Climate Change . . . . . . . 114
Anonymous Worries about an East Coast tidal wave
are all wet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Mark Alpert and
George Musser The Wireless Web . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Fiona Harvey The Internet in Your Hands . . . . . . . 40
Karen J. Bannan The Promise and Perils of WAP . . . . . 46
David Wilson The Future Is Here. Or Is It? . . . . . 50
Leander Kahney The Third-Generation Gap . . . . . . . . 54
Cornelius Borst Operating on a Beating Heart . . . . . . 58
Susan Blackmore and
Lee Alan Dugatkin and
Robert Boyd and
Peter J. Richerson and
Henry Plotkin The Power of Memes, with counterpoints
by Lee Alan Dugatkin, Robert Boyd and
Peter J. Richerson, and Henry Plotkin 64
Joachim Bretschneider Nabada: The Buried City . . . . . . . . 74
John A. Swets and
Robyn M. Dawes and
John Monahan Better Decisions through Science . . . . 82
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: High-precision
scales bring balance to home labs . . . 90
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Be a
Minesweeper millionaire . . . . . . . . 94
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Hybrid Vigor! . . . . . . . . . 99, 102
James Burke Connections: Getting High . . . . . . . 100, 102
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Founding Father of
Invention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Stephen Cole Robots in the sky . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 18
Mark Alpert Radioactive Wrecks . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Michael Menduno Atlas Shrugged . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 22
Carol Ezzell Hooking up Biologists . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Rodger Doyle Voter Turnout . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Naomi Lubick Desert Fridge: Cooling foods when
there's not a socket around . . . . . . 26--26
George Musser Dawn of a New Species? . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Kate Wong Profile: Archaeologist Olga Soffer: The
Caveman's New Clothes . . . . . . . . . 32, 34
W. Wayt Gibbs Technology & Business: Ubiquitous
computing: Homes: As We May Live . . . . 36, 40
Paul Wallich Cyber View: Wholesale Computation:
Companies want to sell your computer's
spare processing time. Are there buyers? 42--42
Mark Fischetti The Future of Digital Entertainment . . 47--49
Peter Forman and
Robert W. Saint John Creating Convergence . . . . . . . . . . 50--56
Ken C. Pohlmann Music Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--60
Peter Broderick Moviemaking in Transition . . . . . . . 61--63, 66--69
Peter D. Lubell Digital Cinema is for Reel . . . . . . . 70--71
Alvy Ray Smith Digital Humans Wait in the Wings . . . . 72--78
Glorianna Davenport Your Own Virtual Storyworld . . . . . . 79--82
Robert P. Lanza and
Betsy L. Dresser and
Philip Damiani Cloning Noah's Ark . . . . . . . . . . . 84--89
Franklin R. Chang Díaz The VASIMR Rocket . . . . . . . . . . . 90--97
Carol Ezzell AIDS Drugs for Africa . . . . . . . . . 98--103
William Lanouette The Odd Couple and the Bomb . . . . . . 104--109
Rebecca Lipsitz Diagnosis At Home: Pregnancy Tests . . . 110--111
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Boids of a
Feather Flock Together . . . . . . . . . 112, 114
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Spiral Slime:
Mathematics in creatures great and small 116, 118
Claire Panosian Dunavan Books: Politics and Plagues: Laurie
Garrett sounds an alarm for the
disastrous state of global public
health; The Editors Recommend . . . . . 120--122
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Anniversary of needles:
celebrating 400 years of magnetic
understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--127
James Burke Connections: Survivals . . . . . . . . . 126--127
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Smart Thinking . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: Color
Television, 1950; Why Good Sausages Go
Bad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Sasha Nemecek The Second Abortion Pill . . . . . . . . 16, 18
Kate Wong Paleolithic Pit Stop: A French site
suggests Neandertals and early modern
humans behaved similarly . . . . . . . . 18, 20
W. Wayt Gibbs Red Team versus the Agents . . . . . . . 20, 24
Graham P. Collins The Amazing Acenes . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 28
Naomi Lubick A Trace of the Corona . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: Taxes: No Major Change
in Sight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Diane Martindale Gotcha!: Wanted for arboricide: Asian
longhorned beetle . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Diane Martindale Muscling DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Diane Martindale A One-Way Ticket to Nunavut . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous The Nobel Prizes for 2000 . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous The (Somewhat) Scientific American . . . 36--36
Paul Wallich Profile: Computer Scientist Lynn Conway:
Completing the Circuit . . . . . . . . . 38, 40, 42--43
David Pescovitz In the Waiting Room: Robodocs may be
here, but remote surgery remains remote 44, 46
David Pescovitz William E. Kelley: Paging Dr. Robot . . 46--46
Wendy M. Grossman Bits of Radio: receiving digital
broadcasts becomes cheaper and easier
--- except in the U.S. . . . . . . . . . 50--50
Ryosuke Motani Rulers of the Jurassic Seas . . . . . . 52--59
Philip G. Collins and
Phaedon Avouris Nanotubes for Electronics . . . . . . . 62--69
J. Mayo Greenberg The Secrets of Stardust . . . . . . . . 70--75
Peter H. St. George-Hyslop Piecing Together Alzheimer's . . . . . . 76--83
Donald D. T. Chen The Science of Smart Growth . . . . . . 84--91
Graham P. Collins Trends in Physics: The Coolest Gas in
the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--99
Madhusree Mukerjee Working Knowledge: Diapers: Disposable
Superabsorbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Calibrating with
Cold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102, 104
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Jumping
Champions: leaping over the gaps between
prime numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
Frans B. M. De Waal Books: Laugh and the World Laughs With
You; The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . 108--111
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Gleaning Nuggets: on the
enduring nobility of native metals . . . 113, 116
James Burke Connections: Not Nelson's Obelisk . . . 114, 116
Anonymous Annual Index 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Final Frontier Exam . . . 120--120
David Appell Policy: Risk Management: The New
Uncertainty Principle . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Diane Martindale Pink Slip in Your Genes . . . . . . . . 19--20
George Musser Lost Worlds: Evidence for the maverick
view that extrasolar planets are really
small stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Sarah Simpson Aquatic Homebodies: New evidence that
baby fish and shrimp stick close to home
may be the key to saving coral reef
biodiversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Graham P. Collins A Gas of Steel Balls: Marbles are more
difficult to understand than atoms or
molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
W. Wayt Gibbs Neuroscience: Optical Illusions: Side
Splitting: Jokes, ice water and
magnetism can changer your view of the
world --- literally . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: Coke, Crack, Pot, Speed
et al. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Diane Martindale Economics: Jobless in the U.S. . . . . . 28--28
Steve Mirsky Dynamics: That Ball Is Gone . . . . . . 28--28
Philip M. Yam Medicine: Cholesterol 1, Aspirin 0 . . . 28--28
Carrol Ezzell Profile: Biologist Thomas R. Cech: The
\$13-Billion Man: Why the head of the
{Howard Hughes Medical Institute} could
be the most powerful individual in
biomedicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
Julie Wakefield Technology & Business: Complexity theory
software: Complexity's Business Model:
Part physics, part poetry --- the
fledgling un-discipline finds commercial
opportunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31, 34
Gary Stix Cyber View: 2001: A Scorecard: How close
are we to building HAL? I'm Sorry, Dave,
I'm afraid we can't do that . . . . . . 36--36
George Musser and
Mark Alpert Brave New Cosmos . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Robert R. Caldwell and
Marc Kamionkowski Echoes from the Big Bang . . . . . . . . 38--43
Charles L. Bennett and
Gary F. Hinshaw and
Lyman Page A Cosmic Cartographer . . . . . . . . . 44--45
Jeremiah P. Ostriker and
Paul J Steinhardt The Quintessential Universe . . . . . . 46--53
P. James and
E. Peebles Making Sense of Modern Cosmology . . . . 54--55
Joao Magueijo Plan B for the Cosmos . . . . . . . . . 58--59
Andrew Whiten and
Christophe Boesch The Cultures of Chimpanzees . . . . . . 60--67
Alfred L. Goldberg and
Stephen J. Elledge and
J. Wade Harper The Cellular Chamber of Doom . . . . . . 68--73
John D. Verhoeven The Mystery of Damascus Blades . . . . . 74--79
Gary Stix The Ultimate Optical Networks: The
Triumph of the Light . . . . . . . . . . 80--86
David J. Bishop and
C. Randy Giles and
Saswato R. Das The Ultimate Optical Networks: The Rise
of Optical Switching . . . . . . . . . . 88--94
Daniel J. Blumenthal The Ultimate Optical Networks: Routing
Packets with Light . . . . . . . . . . . 96--99
Naomi Lubick Working Knowledge: The rounded tones of
flat-panel speakers . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Game Theory:
Strategies: Dots-and-Boxes for Experts 102--103
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Particle Physics:
A Canteen Cloud Chamber . . . . . . . . 104--105
Anonymous Books: \em The Sibley Guide to Birds is
a new classic in both ornithology and
good design. Also, The Editors Recommend 106--108
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Information technology, 2500
B.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109, 111
James Burke Connections: Class Acts . . . . . . . . 110--111
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Open-Heart Open . . . 112--112
John Rennie From the Editors: When Physics Goes Pop 8--8
W. Wayt Gibbs Neuroscience: Stem Cells: Biological
Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Graham P. Collins Physics: Elementary Particles: Higgs
Won't Fly: CERN declines a massive
opportunity to find the Higgs particle 17--18
Gary Stix Optoelectronics: Lasers: Cheap Light:
Microlasers go deeper into the infrared
to boost optical networking . . . . . . 18, 20
Phil Scott Aviation: Safety: Collision Decision:
New radar systems may prevent deadly
accidents on congested runways . . . . . 24--24
Sarah Simpson Climate Change: Kyoto Protocol: Debit or
Credit? Whether CO$_2$-consuming trees
can offset global warming is far from
certain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
The Editors Special Report: Safeguarding Our Water 38--39
Peter H. Gleick Safeguarding Our Water: Making Every
Drop Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--45
Sandra Postel Safeguarding Our Water: Growing More
Food With Less Water . . . . . . . . . . 46--47, 50--51
Diane Martindale and
Peter H. Gleick Safeguarding Our Water: How We Can Do It 52--55
Karin Jegalian and
Bruce T. Lahn Why the Y is So Weird . . . . . . . . . 56--61
M. George Craford and
Nick Holonyak, Jr. and
Frederick A. Kish, Jr. In Pursuit of the Ultimate Lamp . . . . 62--67
Max Tegmark and
John Archibald Wheeler 100 Years of Quantum Mysteries . . . . . 68--75
Robert B. Cialdini The Science of Persuasion . . . . . . . 76--81
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Flue Vaccine:
Preparing for Battle . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Cosmic Rays:
Counting Particles from Space: How to
build a cosmic-ray telescope . . . . . . 84--85, 87
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Geometry:
Opaque Fences: Pursuing Polygonal
Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: The Big Bang: Wit or Wisdom? 93, 95
James Burke Connections: Home From Home . . . . . . 94--95
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Life Savers . . . . . . . 96--96
John Rennie From the Editors: The Future of Human
Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Martian
Canals, 1901, The Crystal Palace, 1851 14--14
W. Wayt Gibbs Glaciology: Out in the Cold: Ambitious
plans to penetrate icebound Lake Vostok
have slowed to a crawl . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Rebecca Renner Scotchgard Scotched: Following the
fabric protector's slippery trail to a
new class of pollutant . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Naomi Lubick Volcanic Accomplice: Deadly impacts may
have exacerbated massive eruptions . . . 19--19
Gay Stix Pour Me Another: A novel way of
embedding chips in polymers may let you
have your computer and sit on it, too 20--20
Julia Karow Skin So Fixed: A topical lotion with
DNA-repair enzymes cuts down skin
carcinomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Graham P. Collins Trapped over a Chip: Microchips that
control hovering atoms may lead to new
quantum computers . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Kate Wong Paleontology: Extinction: Mammoth Kill 22--22
Rodger Doyle Economics: Wealth: The Rich and Other
Americans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Kate Wong Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon:
Fighting the Darkness in El Dorado: The
embattled researcher answers a book's
charges that he incited and exaggerated
the violence of the Yanomamö . . . . . . 26--28
Diane Martindale Oncology: Copycaps . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Steve Mirsky Chemistry: Carbon Original . . . . . . . 27--27
Matt Collins Data Points: Death Defying . . . . . . . 28--28
Philip M. Yam Ancient Astronomy: Stellar Work . . . . 28--28
Philip M. Yam Planetary Science: Mars Water . . . . . 28--28
Eric Niiler Paleontology: Bad Breathosaur . . . . . 29--29
Mia Schmiedeskamp Plenty to Sniff At: Smaller and more
sensitive electronic noses open up new
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
Daniel Grossman Profile: Astrophysicist Richard A.
Muller: One Disaster After Another . . . 30, 32
Wendy Grossman Cyber View: To Protect and Self-Serve:
Will we see hard disks with
copy-preventing codes . . . . . . . . . 31--31
David V. Smith and
Robert F. Margolskee Making Sense of Taste . . . . . . . . . 32--39
W. Wayt Gibbs Biotechnology: Gene Chips: Shrinking to
Enormity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--34
W. Wayt Gibbs Patently Inefficient: A new industry is
thrashed by waves of litigation . . . . 34--34
Wendy M. Grossman Cyber View: No E(asy) Cure . . . . . . . 36--36
Michael Gurnis Sculpting the Earth from Inside Out . . 40--47
S. Jay Olshansky and
Bruce A. Carnes and
Robert N. Butler If Humans Were Built to Last . . . . . . 50--55
Arsen R. Hajian and
J. Thomas Armstrong A Sharper View of the Stars . . . . . . 56--63
Jonathan B. Losos Evolution: A Lizard's Tale . . . . . . . 64--69
Jeffrey D. Sachs and
Andrew D. Mellinger and
John L. Gallup The Geography of Poverty and Wealth . . 70--71
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Radar Guns: Gotcha! 76--77
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Micro Gravity:
Geotropism, One Last Time: How plants
grow in reduced gravity . . . . . . . . 78--79
Shawn Carlson Microgravity: Geotropism, One Last Time 78--79
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Algorithms:
Calendar Calculations: Easter Is a
Quasicrystal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80, 82--83
Rick Weiss Who Owns Your Body? Lori Andrews and
Dorothy Nelkin uncover some disturbing
answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84, 86
Rick Weiss Books: Who Owns Your Body?; The Editors
Recommend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84, 86--88
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 86--88
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: The Needy Porcupine . . . . . . 89, 91
James Burke Connections: French Leave . . . . . . . 90--91
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Sound Proof . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Roger Doyle By the Numbers: Sprawling into the Third
Millennium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Gary Stix Getting More from Moore's: Marshaling
financial clout and technical
astuteness, Intel has pushed its choice
for the key technology that will extend
silicon chips to their limits . . . . . 32, 34--36
Ronald M. Kline Whose Blood Is It, Anyway? . . . . . . . 42--49
Kathryn Brown Seeds of Concern . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
Karen Hopkin The Risks on the Table . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Sasha Nemecek and
Robert B. Horsch Does the World Need GM Foods? Yes . . . 62--63
Sasha Nemecek and
Margaret Mellon Does the World Need GM Foods? No . . . . 64--65
Jaron Lanier Virtually There . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--75
Robert M. Hazen Life's Rocky Start . . . . . . . . . . . 76--85
James L. Burch The Fury of Space Storms . . . . . . . . 86--84
Roy F. Baumeister Violent Pride . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--101
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Touch Screens: At
Your Fingertips . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Meredith F. Small Reviews: Do Animals Have Culture? An
eminent primatologist challenges
long-held convictions about what makes
humans distinct . . . . . . . . . . . . 104, 106
Mark Alpert Look, Ma, No Wires! The Richochet
Wireless Modem is like a Ferrari ---
Fast but Pricey . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109, 111
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: No Tipping . . . . 112--112
Steve Mirsky Antigravity: Charmed, I'm Sure: For the
scientifically bright but socially
befuddled, a day of etiquette
instruction might be just what the Ph.D.
ordered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
The Editors Save Embryonic Stem Cell Research . . . 6--6
Owen W. Dykema and
Tom Moore and
Paul J. Steinhardt and
Nathan Smith and
Fred W. van Leeuwen Letters to the Editors: January's
Special Report; Getting to Omega;
Marketable Results vs. Good Science?;
Alzheimer's Aberrant Proteins;
Clarifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Ill-Fated
Viruses; Accepted Electronics; As the
World Turns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Philip Yam Mad Cow's Human Toll: The Unfolding
Mystery of Prion Disease and its
Ultimate Casualties . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Luis Miguel Ariza Troubles at the Edge: At their Borders,
Reserves May Increase Animal Deaths . . 16--16
Sarah Simpson Deeper Impact: Was Yet Another Mass
Extinction the Work of an Asteroid? . . 18--19
Stephen Cole Bright Sky, Dirty City?: Houston, We
Have Ground Strikes, Lots of Them . . . 19--19
Julia Karow Taken to Heart: Brushing Your Teeth May
be Good for your Ticker . . . . . . . . 20--20
Steven Ashley Shape Shifters: Shape-Memory Polymers
Find Use in Medicine and Clothing . . . 20--21
Alison McCook and
Philip Yam and
Graham P. Collins News Scan: The Not So Sheltering Sky;
Computer: Hack Job; Tissue Engineering:
Fat into Cartilage; Psychology: Holier
Than Thou; Astronomy: Otherworldly
Ocean; Physics: Microscopic Maelstrom;
Medicine: Fetal Cell Setback . . . . . . 24--25
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: Rewriting History: How
Statistical Revisions Color Our View of
the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Gary Stix Project Skyhook: A ``smart'' material
that transforms from a liquid to a solid
state on cue is beginning to show up in
prosthetics, automobiles, and other
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Gary Stix Antimicrobe Marinade: A protein from
cow's milk may become a weapon in the
fight against the killer hamburger . . . 30--30
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Erotic-Fierce People: The
latest skirmish in the ``anthropology
wars'' reveals a fundamental flaw in how
science is understood and communicated 31--31
Steve Mirsky A Host with Infectious Ideas: Paul W.
Ewald argues that most cancers, heart
disease and chronic ills stem from
infection. If correct, his theory will
change the course of medicine . . . . . 32--33
Tim Berners-Lee and
James Hendler and
Ora Lassila The Semantic Web . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--43
Brian C. Chaboyer Rip Van Twinkle: The Oldest Stars Have
Been Growing Younger . . . . . . . . . . 44--49, 51--53
K. C. Nicolaou and
Christopher N. C. Boddy Behind Enemy Lines: A close look at the
inner workings of microbes in this era
of escalating antibiotic resistance is
offering new strategies for designing
drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
W. Wayt Gibbs The Arctic Oil and Wildlife Refuge . . . 62--69
Steven Ashley Warp Drive Underwater: Traveling inside
drag-cutting bubbles, secret torpedoes
and other subsea naval systems can move
hundreds of miles per hour . . . . . . . 70--79
Scott O. Lilienfeld and
James M. Wood and
Howard N. Garb What's wrong with this picture? . . . . 80--87
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Bar-Code Readers:
Quick Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Keay Davidson Reviews: A Case Study for Global
Warming: The Little Ice Age Offers Clues
to How our Society Might Handle a Major
Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Marguerite Holloway War and Peace among the Pinnipeds:
Visiting the Wildlife of Año Nuevo . . . 92, 94--95
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Something Fishy . . 96--96
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Drink and Be Merry: Mumm's
Might Have Been the Word If This Story
Had Remained Solely About Wines. But
When Life Hands You Lemons, You Don't
Need Sour Grapes . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
The Editors Faith-Based Reasoning . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Robin G. Saunders and
John Lomax and
Robert B. Cialdini and
Albert S. Kirsch and
Sandra Brown and
Laurie A. Wayburn Letters to the Editors: (What you didn't
think you wanted to know about) recycle
wastewater; Unpersuaded; Pythagoras,
Plato and everything; In forests, the
older the better . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Hormones,
Howitzers, Horsepower . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Mark Alpert A Touch of Poison . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
George Musser Galactic Archaeology . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Steven Ashley Robotic Bombers . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Graham P. Collins New Trick from Old Dog: A magnesium
compound is a startling superconductor 24B-24B
Josephine Hearn Unfair Game: The bushmeat trade is
wiping out large African animals . . . . 24, 26
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: The American Terrorist 28--28
Alison McCook Engineering: The Little Engine that
Might . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Philip Yam Astronomy: Not So Watery . . . . . . . . 30--30
Meet Ken Anthropology: Lucy Kate Wong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Alison McCook AIDS: Locating the Latent Enemy . . . . 32--32
Alison McCook Biology: Boning up . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Marguerite Holloway Sociology: Aborted Crime Wave, Part 2 32--32
Alison McCook Computers: Copy Unprotected . . . . . . 32--32
Gary Stix The Mice That Warred: Natural selection
picks the best antibodies to fight
invading microbes --- and it also
determines who survives to sell these
molecules as drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Gary Stix A License for Copycats? A court decision
may clarify what is patentable while
giving a free ride to knockoffs . . . . 36--36
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Fox's Flapdoodle . . . . . . . 37--37
John Adam Piloting through Uncharted Seas: The
privately funded Monterey Bay Aquarium
Research Institute enables scientists
and engineers to engage in radical
pursuits. As long as Marcia K. McNutt
likes their ideas . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
Bhola N. Dwivedi and
Kenneth J. H. Phillips The Paradox of the Sun's Hot Corona . . 40--47
Michael Dickinson Solving the Mystery of Insect Flight . . 48--50, 54--57
Gregory Hickok and
Ursula Bellugi and
Edward S. Klima Sign Language in the Brain . . . . . . . 58--65
Robert Zubrin North to Mars! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--69
Ricki L. Rusting Hair: Why It Grows, Why It Stops . . . . 70--79
Carol Ezzell The Himba and the Dam . . . . . . . . . 80--89
Steven Ashley A Low-Pollution Engine Solution . . . . 90--95
Mark Fischetti Flight Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--97
Carl Zimmer Dinos and Darwin: Just how important
were the discoveries of dinosaur
fossils? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99, 101
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 101--101
Mark Alpert Kibbles and Bytes: How much is that
robotic doggy in the window? . . . . . . 102--104
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Alternating Liars 105--105
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Nostrildamus . . . . . . . 106--106
Mark Ford Endpoints: How is tempered glass made? 107--107
Mark A. Garlick Save the Earth: Delaying our planet's
ultimate demise --- by shifting its
orbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240
The Editors SA Perspectives: Air Traffic Out of
Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Don Saroff and
S. Jay Olshansky and
Bruce A. Carnes and
Robert N. Butler and
Felix Godwin and
Jeffrey D. Sachs and
Andrew D. Mellinger and
John L. Gallup and
Harold A. McAlister and
John Levings and
Michael Gurnis Letters to the Editors: You, Only with a
Better Brain; Institutional Poverty,
Institutional Wealth?; Starring CHARA;
Africa Rising . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 12
Anonymous Errata: ``A Sharper View of the Stars'' 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Comets; State
Security; The Pharaoh's Emeralds . . . . 16--16
Sarah Simpson News Scan: Shrinking the Dead Zone . . . 18, 20
Mark Alpert Sailing on Sunlight . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Gary Stix \`A Votre Santé: Should Physicians Tell
Some Nondrinkers to Drink? . . . . . . . 24--24
Steven Ashley Fuel Cell Phones: Portable Power from
Fuel Cells Inches Along . . . . . . . . 25--25
Meredith F. Small Sigma Chi Chimpy: Forget the Ladies ---
For Chimps, Hunting is about Fraternity 26--26
Alison McCook Napoleon's Revenge: In the U.S., Height
Hits Its Head on the Genetic Ceiling . . 27--27
Alison McCook Genomics: Bigger Snips of DNA . . . . . 28--28
Philip Yam Electronics: Going Ballistic . . . . . . 28--28
Philip Yam Physics: A Crush on Nitrogen . . . . . . 28--28
Alison McCook Geoscience; Dwindling Albedo . . . . . . 29--29
Alison McCook Neurobiology: Born Again . . . . . . . . 29--29
Philip Yam Behavior: The Flipper Effect . . . . . . 29--29
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: In a Dry Land: The
Southwest Faces a Dry Future, But There
Are Ways to Cope . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Gary Stix Builders of Light Pipes: Structured
teamwork propels Corning beyond
commodity fiber . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
Gary Stix Sounding Out Snipers: Drawing a bead on
urban warriors who take potshots at
regular troops . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Starbucks in the Forbidden City 34--35
Julie Wakefield A Mind for Consciousness: Somewhere in
the brain, Christof Koch believes, there
are certain clusters of neurons that
will explain why you're you and not
someone else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Thomas Sterling How to Build a Hypercomputer . . . . . . 38--45
Michael R. Nash The Truth and the Hype of Hypnosis . . . 46--49, 52--55
R. Dean Astumian Making Molecules into Motors . . . . . . 56--64
Lene Vestergaard Hau Frozen Light: Slowing a beam of light to
a halt may pave the way for new optical
communications technology, tabletop
black holes and quantum computers . . . 66--73
J. W. Costerton and
Philip S. Stewart Battling Biofilms: The war is against
bacterial colonies that cause some of
the most tenacious infections known. The
weapon is knowledge of the enemy's
communication system . . . . . . . . . . 74--81
Sarah Simpson Fishy Business: Cyanide fishing
threatens many of the last pristine
coral reefs in Southeast Asia. Will an
ambitious program to clean up the matine
aquarium be enough to save them? . . . . 82--89
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Sunscreen: Tan or
Burn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Marguerite Holloway The Universe Atop a Mountain: Gazing at
the Cosmos from Kitt Peak National
Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--94
Richard Milner Our Evolving View of the Galápagos: The
Famous Islands Before and After Charles
Darwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Dennis E. Shash Puzzling Adventures: Seeing Red, Feeling
Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Out of This World: One UFO
expert says that aliens don't get around
much anymore. But what if that's just
what they want you to think? . . . . . . 98--98
Robert Kenney Endpoints: How can sea mammals drink
saltwater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous From the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . ??
The Editors SA Perspectives: Another Cup of CAFE,
Please . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
David T. Harris and
Ronald M. Kline and
Peter Rose and
Robert M. Hazen and
Scott C. Carvajal and
Andrea J. Romero and
Jeff Ficek and
Veronica Collin and
Elliott Manley and
Philip Yam and
Tobias S. Haller and
Alan P. Burke Letters to the Editors: Cord Blood:
Stat; Amino Acids Through the Looking
Glass; Pride and Praise; What Price
``Purer'' Agriculture; No GM Risks? Hmm,
Sounds Familiar; Restricted Abortion,
Deadly Consequences; Ursula LeGuin,
Where Are You?; Not a Lifestyle Disease 8--10
Anonymous Errata: \em At Your Fingertips, \em I,
Robonaut, \em Seeds of Concern . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Warped
Perception; Hostile Continent; Mad
Scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Steven Ashley Concorde's Comeback: Fixing the
supersonic transport to avoid another
accident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Diane Martindale Road Map for the Mind: Old Mathematical
Theorems Unfold the Human Brain . . . . 13--14
George Musser The Peak of Success: The Big Bang Clicks
Together Better Than Ever . . . . . . . 14--15
Karen Hopkin The Post-Genome Project: Whether the
Human Proteome Will Be Successfully
Mapped in Three Years Depends on How You
Define ``Proteome'' . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Graham P. Collins Computing with Light: Classical Waves
for Pseudo Quantum Computing . . . . . . 18--18
Rebecca Renner An Environmental Solution: Ionic Liquids
May Replace Hazardous Solvents . . . . . 19--19
Wendy M. Grossman Wireless Wonder: A Dark-Horse Standard
Could Win the Broadband Race . . . . . . 20--20
Steve Mirsky Hematology: Sticky Situation . . . . . . 22--22
Steve Mirsky Neurology: Wrist Watch . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Philip Yam Health: Fat Kills . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Alison McCook Toxicology: When Fish is Not Brain Food 23--23
Sarah Simpson Evolution: Faster Than a Snail's Pace 23--23
Philip Yam Physics: Crystallizing Sound . . . . . . 23--23
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: U.S. Workers and the
Law: Labor Rights of Americans Lag
Behind Those of Other Nations . . . . . 24--24
Daniel G. Dupont The Company's Company: Venture
capitalism becomes a new mission for the
nation's spymasters . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
John J. Doll Talking Gene Patents . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Deconstructing the Dead . . . . 29--29
W. Wayt Gibbs Dissident or Don Quixote?: Challenging
the HIV theory got virologist Peter H.
Duesburg all but excommunicated from the
scientific orthodoxy. Now he claims that
science has got cancer all wrong . . . . 30--32
Moshe Sipper and
James A. Reggia Go Forth and Replicate: Birds do it,
bees do it, but could machines do it?
New computer simulations suggest that
the answer is yes . . . . . . . . . . . 35--39, 42--43
George Musser Robot, Heal Thyself. Computer that fix
themselves are the first application of
artificial self-replication . . . . . . 40--41
David F. Blake and
Peter Jenniskens The Ice of Life: Ice in its earthly
guise is hostile to living things. But
an exotic form of space ice can actually
promote the creation of organic
molecules --- and may have seeded life
on Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--47, 50
W. Wayt Gibbs Cybernetic Cells: The simplest living
cell is so complex that supercomputer
models may never simulate its behavior
perfectly. But even imperfect models
could shake the foundations of biology 52--57
Tim D. White Once Were Cannibals: Clear evidence of
cannibalism in the human fossil record
has been rare, but it is now becoming
apparent that the practice is deeply
rooted in our history . . . . . . . . . 58--65
Daniel Lovering Taming the Killing Fields of Laos: Live
bombs from the Vietnam War continue to
kill people and hamper agricultural
development in Laos. The cleanup project
required deciphering decades-old
computer files . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
William W. Hargrove and
Forrest M. Hoffman and
Thomas Sterling The Do-It-Yourself Supercomputer:
Scientists have found a cheaper way to
solve tremendously difficult
computational problems: connect ordinary
PCs so that they can work together . . . 72--79
Eric Niiler The Trouble With Turtles . . . . . . . . 80--85
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Crank It Up!
Human-Powered Electronics . . . . . . . 86--87
Steve Ditlea Touchy-Feely Computing: A new mouse
picks up good vibrations . . . . . . . . 88--90
Chet Raymo A Spin on Spin Foam: In which the author
takes us to the cutting edge of the
search for the ultimate theory of
reality [Book review: \em Three Roads to
Quantum Gravity, by Lee Smolin] . . . . 91--92
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: The Delphi Flip . . 94--94
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: And the Winner Really Is
\ldots The best years of their lives may
be Oscar winners' extra ones, as they
slow down the journey from here to
eternity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Michael L. Free Endpoints: Why doesn't stainless steel
rust? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
The Editors Megabucks for Nanotech . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Jimmy Carter and
Ted Stevens and
Frank Murkowski and
Don Young and
Amory B. Lovins and
Robert Redford and
Lisa Merlo and
Douglas Barnett and
Scott O. Lilienfeld and
Rob Lewis and
Tim Berners-Lee and
Winkler G. Weinberg and
Jon Tobey Letters to the Editors: Writes Former
President Jimmy Carter; Your Oil or Your
Wildlife?; All About Inkblots; Semantic
Web: Not Fuzzy; \em E. Coli-Free
Cookouts; Supercavitation, Swimmingly 12--13
Anonymous Erratum: ``Rip Van Twinkle: The Oldest
Stars Have Been Growing Younger'' . . . 13--13
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Salmon Sense;
Okapi Surprise; Yankee Ingenuity . . . . 16--16
Graham P. Collins SNO Nus Is Good News . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Diane Martindale Cancer in the Crosshairs . . . . . . . . 19--20
Sarah Simpson Triggering a Snowball: Did Methane
Addiction Set Off Earth's Greatest Ice
Ages? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 22
Eric Niiler Into the Jaguar's Den . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Wendy M. Grossman Surveillance by Design: Will a New
Cyberlaw Bypass the U.S. Constitution? 24--25
Phil Scott Eye Spy: Forget Monitors --- Nomad Puts
Text and Graphics Right Onto the Retina 25--25
Anonymous Data Points: A Demon-Haunted World . . . 26--26
Mariama Orange Communications: Built for Speed . . . . 26--26
Philip Yam Astronomy: Moons over Saturn . . . . . . 26--26
Philip Yam Psychology: You Forgot to Remember . . . 26--26
Alison McCook Evolution: Infectious Selection . . . . 27--27
Mariama Orange Medicine: Pease in the Nonobese . . . . 27--27
Sarah Simpson Geochemistry: More Than Shade . . . . . 27--27
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: Measuring Bad Behavior:
FBI Crime Statistics: Use With Caution 28--28
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Nano Nonsense and Cryonics . . 29--29
Marguerite Holloway Young Cells in Old Brains . . . . . . . 30--31
Gary Stix Little Big Science . . . . . . . . . . . 32--37
George M. Whitesides and
J. Christopher Love The Art of Building Small . . . . . . . 38--47
Michael Roukes Plenty of Room, Indeed . . . . . . . . . 48--51, 54--57
Charles M. Lieber The Incredible Shrinking Circuit . . . . 58--64
A. Paul Alivisatos Less Is More in Medicine . . . . . . . . 66--73
K. Eric Drexler Machine-Phase Nanotechnology: A
molecular nanotechnology pioneer
predicts that the tiniest robots will
revolutionize manufacturing and
transform society . . . . . . . . . . . 74--75
Richard E. Smalley Of Chemistry, Love and Nanobots . . . . 76--77
George M. Whitesides The Once and Future Nanomachine . . . . 78--83
Steven Ashley Nanobot Construction Crews . . . . . . . 84--85
Graham P. Collins Shamans of Small . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--91
Mark Fischetti Killer Drops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
Marguerite Holloway Seeing the Earth for Its Faults . . . . 94--96
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Keay Davidson Bloated, Whiny and Self-Important: Is
the Scientific Bureaucracy the
Quintessential Special-Interest Group? 98--99, 101
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Square Dancing . . 102--102
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Enter the Dragon Exhibit 103--103
The Editors SA Perspectives: The Uncloned States of
America? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . 10--10
George Musser Policy: Climate of Uncertainty: The
unknowns in global warming research
don't have to be showstoppers . . . . . 14--15
W. Wayt Gibbs Medicine: All in the Mind: Fact or
artifact? The placebo effect may be a
little of both . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Paul Wallich Software: Symmetry Breaking: A legal job
in one country is grounds for arrest in
another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Wendy Williams Conservation: Sound Judgments: Will a
powerful new Navy sonar harm whales? . . 18--18
Steven Ashley Astronomy: Catching Some Sun: The
Genesis spacecraft will return with a
piece of soil . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Graham P. Collins Neuroscience: Magnetic Revelations:
Functional MRI highlights neurons \em
receiving signals . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Diane Martindale Biology: A Bad Raft for HIV . . . . . . 22--22
Diane Martindale Genetics: Genes Are Not Enough . . . . . 22--22
Alison McCook Physics: A Warmer Superconductor? . . . 22--22
Mariette DiChristina Cosmology: Burning the Fog . . . . . . . 23--23
Alison McCook Civil Engineering: Road Rage . . . . . . 23--23
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: Can't Read, Can't Count 24--24
Tabitha M. Powledge Tobacco Pharming: A quest to turn the
killer crop into a treatment for cancer 25--26
Gary Stix Patently Bizarre: Eccentric inventions
may not make their owners rich. But the
Gallery of Obscure Patents ensures that
the best of the weird will not be
forgotten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Michael Shermer Skeptic: I Was Wrong: Those three words
often separate the scientific pros from
the posers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Kate Wong Profile: Finding Homo Sapiens' Lost
Relatives: Continuing a family
tradition, Maeve G. Leakey uncovers the
skeletons in your closet . . . . . . . . 32--33
Carol Ezzell Magic Bullets Fly Again . . . . . . . . 34--41
Carolyn Meinel Code Red for the Web . . . . . . . . . . 42--47, 50--51
Steven Ashley Driving the Info Highway . . . . . . . . 52--58
Guillermo Gonzalez and
Donald Brownlee and
Peter D. Ward Refuges for Life in a Hostile Universe 60--67
Hui Sun and
Jeremy Nathans The Challenge of Macular Degeneration 68--75
Mark Fischetti Drowning New Orleans . . . . . . . . . . 76--85
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Mice and Men:
Evolution of the desktop mouse . . . . . 86--87
W. Wayt ``Nemesis'' Gibbs A Wide Web of Worlds: How Internet
browsers add an extra dimension --- but
little depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--90
Paul Raeburn The End of Oil: Will gas lines in the
coming decade make those of 1973 look
short? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Crowns of the
Minotaur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Farm Report: A new way
to study farm life makes one wonder:
What if animal behavior were taken
literally? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous From the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous From the Editors: Invisible Terrorism 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8, 10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Poor Baby,
Sick Baby; Purple Bacteria; Aviation
Milestone, Maybe; The First Nautical
Periscope?; Singer's Sewing Machine;
Colt Revolvers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Gary Stix News scan: Facing a new menace . . . . . 14--14
Graham P. Collins News scan: Plus Ça Change: Has a
Fundamental Constant Varied Over the
Aeons? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 18
George Musser News scan: Earth-Shattering Theory:
Finally, the Details for Forming the
Moon Work Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 20
Mariama Orange News scan: No Power to the People: Does
Low-Power FM Radio Cause Unacceptable
Interference? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Brenda Goodman News scan: Acronym Acrimony: Do
Whimsical Names Encourages Sales Over
Science? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Christine Kenneally News scan: Taking the Plunge: Two
Daredevils Plan to Skydive from the
Stratosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Rodger Doyle News scan: Cleaner Living: A Welcome
Drop in the Hazards of Being an American
Teen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Julie Wakefield Catching a Buzz: New Internet traffic
watchers aim to elevate marketing to a
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 32
Gary Stix Saying Yes to NO: The Patent Office is
issuing a wealth of patents related to
one of the most celebrated molecules
[nitrous oxide] of the past decade . . . 34--34
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Baloney Detection: How to Draw
Boundaries Between Science and
Pseudoscience, Part I . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Daniel Grossman Profile: Dissent in the Maelstrom:
Maverick meteorologist Richard S.
Lindzen keeps right on arguing that
human-induced global warning isn't a
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
W. Wayt Gibbs On the Termination of Species . . . . . 40--49
Steve Ditlea The Electronic Paper Chase . . . . . . . 50--55
William A. Haseltine Beyond Chicken Soup . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
Joachim Wambsganss Gravity's Kaleidoscope . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Karen R. Rosenberg and
Wenda R. Trevathan The Evolution of Human Birth . . . . . . 72--77
Ronald G. Ehrenberg and
Dominic J. Brewer and
Adam Gamoran and
J. Douglas Willms Does Class Size Matter? . . . . . . . . 78--85
Mark Fischetti Current Safety: Ground fault circuit
interrupters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
W. Wayt Gibbs A short stroll through the solar system:
Tour the brain stem of planetary science
--- and see what kind of robot \$1.5
billion buys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures:Truck Stop . . . . . 91--91
Rick Weiss Reviews: The World of Ag Biotech: They
shall beat their petunias into pork
chops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Dumb, Dumb, Duh Dumb: A
brief collection of anecdotal evidence
to support the notion that ``a little
knowledge'' would in actuality represent
major progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
The Editors SA Perspectives: Here's Looking at You 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12, 14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Fun with
Kids; Cool Stuff; Battlefield Nukes;
Nova Persei; Shelled Meat; Warship
Design; Bear Hunt . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
George Musser News scan: Better Killing Through
Chemistry: Buying chemical weapons
through the mail is quick and easy . . . 20--21
Ed Regis Bioterrorism: Evaluating the threat:
Does Mass Biopaic Portend Mass
Destruction? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--23
Steven Ashley News scan: Reseizing the controls:
Remote Piloted Hijack Rescues May Be a
Bad Idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Gary Stix News scan: Inside Attacks; Cure or
Poison?; Plague Redux; Defusing Anthrax 25--25
Graham P. Collins News scan: Trillions entwined: Clouds of
atoms are linked by a weird quantum tube 26--26
Carol Ezzel News scan: Stem Cell Showstopper?
Without Cloning, They Aren't Likely to
Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Rodger Doyle News scan: By the Numbers: Why Do
Prisons Grow? For the Answers, Ask the
Governors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Alison McCook News scan: The Nobel Prizes for 2001 . . 29--29
Gary Stix Innovations: The Undying Pulse:
Fiber-optic technology nurtured at Bell
Labs from before divestiture is ready to
go commercial. But will the patience of
its creators yield any competitive
advantage? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Anonymous Staking Claims: Patent Pamphleteer:
Gregory Aharonian's e-mail newsletter
decries the issuance of a flood of bad
patents while dishing dirt about the
goings-on inside the Patent Office . . . 33--33
Michael Shermer Skeptic: More Baloney Detection: How to
Draw Boundaries Between Science and
Pseudoscience, Part II . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Sarah Simpson Profile: Thawing Scott's Legacy: A
Pioneer in atmospheric ozone studies,
Susan Solomon rewrites the history of a
fatal polar expedition . . . . . . . . . 35--36
Rakesh K. Jain and
Peter F. Carmeliet Vessels of Death or Life . . . . . . . . 38--45
Eli Yablonovitch Photonic Crystals: Semiconductors of
Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--51, 54--55
Ian Tattersall How We Came to Be Human: book excerpt 56--63
Richard B. Larson and
Volker Bromm The First Stars in the Universe . . . . 64--71
M. V. Ramana and
A. H. Nayyar India, Pakistan and the Bomb . . . . . . 72--83
M. Mitchell Waldrop The Origins of Personal Computing . . . 84--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Electronic Toll
Collection: In the Fast Lane . . . . . . 92--93
Mark Alpert Technicalities: Long-Distance Robots . . 94--95
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anne Eisenberg Reviews: Spontaneous, Unedited, Naked: A
Linguist Looks at Discourse on the
Planet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Fashion Gang . . . 99--99
Steve Mirsky Antigravity: The Importance of Being
Ernst [Mayr]: Thoughts on an evolution
expert who has taken seriously the
warning ``publish or perish'' . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Annual Index 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . 101--103
The Editors SA Perspectives: Is Nuclear Power Ready? 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8, 10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: An Unhappy
Reader; Ridenour Replies; Poisonous
Poultry?; Panama Canal; Feeding a
Python; Medicines and Nostrums . . . . . 12--12
W. Wayt Gibbs News scan: Innocence Lost: Is Enough
Being Done to Keep Biotechnology Out of
the Wrong Hands? . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
David McMullin News scan: Lockerbie Insurance: Hardened
Luggage Containers Can Neutralize
Explosives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Kate Wong News scan: Taking Wing: A New View of
the Origin of Bird Flight Emerges . . . 16, 18
Lamont Wood News scan: The World in a Box: Little
Fanfare Greets the Coming Out of a
Pivotal AI Project . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Tabitha M. Powledge News scan: Beating Abuse: Glutamate May
Hold a Key to Drug Addiction . . . . . . 20--20
Graham P. Collins News scan: Fractional Success: A New
Theory of Everything? Probably Not . . . 21--21
Rodger Doyle News scan: By the Numbers: Going Solo:
Unwed Motherhood in Industrial Nations
Rises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Julie Wakefield Innovations: Mimicking Mother Nature:
Marrying Art and Science, Nekton
Research Has Developed an Underwater
Robot Inspired by a One-Celled Organism 26--27
Marco Cattaneo and
Sergio Pistoi News scan: Profile: Extreme Medicine: In
a hospital northeast of Kabul, surgeon
Gino Strada is redefining what it means
to provide quality medical care in a
combat zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Diane Martindale Staking Claims: Seeing the invisible:
Liquid Crystals May Be Enlisted to
Create Pocket Bioweapons Detectors . . . 32--32
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Advanced extraterrestrial
aliens would be indistinguishable from
God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Ronald J. Reynolds The Gas between the Stars . . . . . . . 34--43
Jose B. Cibelli and
Robert P. Lanza and
Michael D. West and
Carol Ezzell The First Human Cloned Embryo . . . . . 44--51
Thomas H. Lee A Vertical Leap for Microchips . . . . . 52--59
John Rennie and
Stephen Schneider and
John P. Holdren and
John Bongaarts and
Thomas Lovejoy Misleading Math about the Earth . . . . 61--71
James A. Lake and
Ralph G. Bennett and
John F. Kotek Next-Generation Nuclear Power . . . . . 72--81
Karl Sigmund and
Ernst Fehr and
Martin A. Nowak The Economics of Fair Play . . . . . . . 82--87
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Gas Masks: Breathing
Easier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: The Glass House in the Desert:
Biosphere 2 Courts Scientists and
Tourists Alike . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--92
Richard Milner Reviews: The First Evolutionary
Psychologist: Charles Darwin Sought
Clues to Human Nature by Studying the
Behavior of His Own Children . . . . . . 94--95
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Pinpointing a Polar
Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Steve Mirsky Antigravity: Torre Adoring: Part of His
Success Can Be Attributed to the
Manager's Use of Yankee Ingenuity in
Applying Some Simple Rules . . . . . . . 97--97
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
The Editors SA Perspectives: A Ready-Made
Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12, 14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Toward Space;
Eugenics; Stonehenge; The Wright Stuff;
Evolution ``Nonsense'' . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Gary Stix News scan: What Clones? Widespread
Scientific Doubts Greet Word of the
First Human Embryo Clones . . . . . . . 18--19
Sarah Simpson News scan: Coal Control; Tackling the
Health Dangers of China's ``Dirty'' Coal 20, 22
Linda Wang News scan: Paving Out Pollution: A
Common Whitener Helps to Clean the Air 20--20
Lisa Melton News scan: Count to 10: Frog Eggs May
Crack the Mystery of How Anesthesia
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 24
Steve Ashley News scan: Quieting Killer Wakes: Aiming
to Beat Hazardous Turbulence Behind
Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Graham P. Collins News scan: Setback for Super-K: Disaster
Blinds the World's Leading Neutrino
Detector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Rodger Doyle News scan: By the Numbers: Assembling
the Future: How International Migrants
Are Shaping the 21st Century . . . . . . 30--30
Thomas Maeder Innovations: Down with the Bad, Up with
the Good: A biotech firm develops a
vaccine to raise good cholesterol levels 32--33
Steve Ditlea Staking Claims: Intellectual
Improprieties: A leading gadfly picks
some of the worst patents of all time 34--34
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Gradual Illumination of the
Mind: The advance of science, not the
demotion of religion, will best counter
the influence of creationism . . . . . . 35--35
Julie Wakefield Profile: Telecom's Man of the Moment:
Heir to a famed military and political
legacy, Michael K. Powell tries to make
his mark on the federal agency that
regulates cell phones, television, and
the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
W. Wayt Gibbs The Network in Every Room . . . . . . . 38--43
Stephen H. Friend and
Roland B. Stoughton The Magic of Microarrays . . . . . . . . 44--49, 52--53
John J. Flynn and
André R. Wyss Madagascar's Mesozoic Secrets . . . . . 54--63
Joseph A. Burns and
Douglas P. Hamilton and
Mark R. Showalter Bejeweled Worlds: What an impoverished
universe it would be if Saturn and the
other giant planets lacked rings.
Planetary scientists are finally working
out how gravity has sculpted these
elegant forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--73
Robert Kubey and
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Television Addiction Is No Merge
Metaphor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--80
Edward O. Wilson The Bottleneck [book excerpt] . . . . . 82--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Aerial and Satellite
Imaging: Eye in the Sky . . . . . . . . 92--93
Fiona Harvey Technicalities: Surrounded by Sound:
Ingenious Software Makes Ordinary Stereo
Speakers Come Alive . . . . . . . . . . 94--95
Chet Raymo Reviews: Treasonous Idealism: \em Nova's
Intriguing Government Documentary Probes
Misdirected Principles --- And the
Unforseen Dangers of Government Secrecy 96--97
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 97--97
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Shifty witnesses 98--98
Steve Mirsky Antigravity: Kabul Session: A science
primer for any readers who richly
deserve to get taught a lesson . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Past Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
The Editors SA Perspectives: Treat AIDS Globally . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12, 14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Logic
Machines; Turbines Take Over; Mapping
the Simian Brain; Automobile Craze; It's
Not Hogwarts; Smallpox Warning; Nebular
Skepticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Wendy M. Grossman News scan: I Seek You: Are New Security
Technologies Worth the Intrusion and the
Cost? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 20
Michael Bahar News scan: Hears to Your Health: A
Sensor Lets Researchers Listen for Germs 20--21
Daniel Grossman News scan: Throw the Switch? New
Vaccines May Not Be a Reason to Keep
Smallpox Stocks . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Phil Scott News scan: Astronaut Boot Camp: NASA
Finds a New Way to Imbue Recruits With
the Right Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 24
Wendy Williams News scan: Blowing Out to Sea: Offshore
Wind Farms May Finally Reach the U.S. 24--25
George Musser News scan: Been There, Done That: The
Big Bang May Not Have Been a Singular
Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Rodger Doyle News scan: By the Numbers: Down with
Evolution! Creationists are Changing
State Educational Standards . . . . . . 30--30
Michael Behar Innovations: Defying Gravity: A small
Swiss firm develops an innovative G suit
for fighter pilots . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Who Owns You? A mock
trial explores the intersection of
patents and genetic-property rights . . 35--35
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Hermits and Cranks: Fifty years
ago, Martin Gardner launched the modern
skeptical movement. Unfortunately, much
of what he wrote about is still current
today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
David Appell Profile: Aspirations in Science and
Civics: From the carbon-nanotube lab to
the corridors of Washington power,
Mildred S. Dresselhaus has followed a
career that combines scientific research
with public service . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
David P. Anderson and
John Kubiatowicz The Worldwide Computer: An operating
system spanning the Internet would bring
the power of millions of the world's
Internet-connected PCs to everyone's
fingertips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
John A. T. Young and
R. John Collier Attacking Anthrax . . . . . . . . . . . 48--51, 54--59
Günther Hasinger and
Roberto Gilli The Cosmic Reality Check: A celestial
audit suggests that astronomers'
inventory of luminous bodies may soon be
complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--67
Martin H. Teicher Scars That Won't Heal: The Neurobiology
of Child Abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
Luann Becker Repeated Blows: Did extraterrestrial
collisions capable of causing widespread
extinctions pound the Earth not once,
but twice --- or even several times? . . 76--83
Keith Rayner and
Barbara R. Foorman and
Charles A. Perfetti and
David Pesetsky and
Mark S. Seidenberg How Should Reading Be Taught? . . . . . 84--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Combination Locks:
Secret of Spin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: Ancient Rituals on the Atlantic
Coast: Full Moon in May Brings Horseshoe
Crabs Ashore to Mate and Migrating Birds
in to Feast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94, 96--97
Peter G. Brown Reviews: A Good Blue is Hard to Find:
Chemistry and Art Have Advanced Hand in
Hand Through the Ages . . . . . . . . . 98, 100
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Card counting . . . 102--102
Steve Mirsky Antigravity: Divining Comedy: Can
Researchers Dissect Humor Without
Killing the Patient? . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Past Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
The Editors SA Perspectives: The peculiar
institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Clay W. Crites and
R. O. Whitney and
Dudley Miles and
Lloyd Anderson and
Ian Tattersall and
Alexander S. Wegmann Letters to the Editors: Privacy,
Anonymity, and the Difference Between
Them; When SAGE Wasn't; Inventing
Language, Exapting Money . . . . . . . . 10, 11
Anonymous Erratum: India, Pakistan and the Bomb 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Million Years Ago: Feets
Don't Fail Me Now; Danger from Above;
Bug Zapper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Age of
Antibiotics; Hollerith Number Cruncher;
African Missionary . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Mark Alpert News Scan:Has the Space Age Stalled?
Rocket science proves harder than rocket
scientists had thought . . . . . . . . . 18, 20
Tabitha M. Powledge News Scan: Looking at ART [Assisted
Reproductive Technology]: Is it time to
scrutinize assisted reproduction? . . . 20, 23
Phil Scot News Scan: Aviation: Heads on Tails:
Safety investigators try to find out if
composites for aircraft are strong
enough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Sergio Pistoi News Scan: Mind the Gap: Is the U.S
Starting to lose its edge in basic
research? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Brenda Goodman News Scan: Drink Your Shots: Getting rid
of the sticking point in allergy therapy 26--26
Steve Nadis News Scan: Joke Hunter of Science:
Funnyman Marc Abrahams Tackles an
Improbable Role and an Ig Nobel cause 28--28
Rodger Doyle News Scan: Greenhouse Follies:
Prosperity and fertility lie at the root
of global warming, but no one agrees on
the best fix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Philip Yam News Scan: In No Uncertain Terms [letter
of Niels Bohr to Werner Heisenberg] . . 30--30
Alison McCook News Scan: Transgenic Crops: Gene
Fiends? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
J. R. Minkel News Scan: Nanotech: Falling in Line . . 30--30
Alison McCook News Scan: Epidemiology: Early to Rise 31--31
Alison McCook News Scan: Evolution: Score One for
Natural Selection . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Alison McCook News Scan: Virology Breaking and
Entering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Steven Ashley Innovations: It's Not Easy Being Green:
Developing environmentally safe products
is one thing; marketing them is another
matter entirely . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 34
Anonymous Staking claims: Tragedy of the Cyber
Commons: A legal scholar issues a glum
prognosis for the future of innovation
on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Skepticism as a Virtue: An
inquiry into the original meaning of
``skeptic'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Sergio Pistoi Profile: Father of the Impossible
Children: Ignoring nearly universal
opprobrium, Severino Antinori presses
ahead with plans to clone a human being 38--39
Carol Ezzell Proteins Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
Steven K. Feiner Augmented Reality: A New Way of Seeing 48--55
Laurence D. Hurst and
James P. Randerson Parasitic Sex Puppeteers . . . . . . . . 56--61
W. Wayt Gibbs Ripples in Spacetime . . . . . . . . . . 62--71
Mel Rosenberg The Science of Bad Breath . . . . . . . 72--79
Kevin Bales The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery 80--88
Peter Renz Reviews: ``The World is Broad and
Wide'': A modern mathematician annotates
a classic and gives it yet another
dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Anonymous The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: A tale of fairies
and pearls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Lab tests: Grow, then
Kill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
W. Wayt Gibbs Technicalities: Bring the Net to the
Bedroom: Even an amateur can create a
custom-designed Internet appliance . . . 94--96
Steve Mirksy Antigravity: Copy That: Technology is
making it harder for word thieves to
earn outrageous fortunes . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Ask the Experts: What is antimatter? Why
does your stomach growl when you are
hungry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100