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Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--20
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 22--32
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--40
Robert R. Wilson The Next Generation of Particle
Accelerators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--57
Leonard Hayflick The Cell Biology of Human Aging . . . . 58--65
Kenneth S. Deffeyes and
Ian D. MacGregor World Uranium Resources . . . . . . . . 66--76
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 78--86
Laurence A. Soderblom The Galilean moons of Jupiter . . . . . 88--100
Barbara Gillam Geometrical Illusions . . . . . . . . . 102--111
George W. Beadle The Ancestry of Corn . . . . . . . . . . 112--119
Martin M. Kaplan and
Hilary Koprowski Rabies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--134
Norman Smith The Origins of the Water Turbine . . . . 138--148
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 150--160
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 14--21
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--32
Charles Lee Jackson The Allocation of the Radio Spectrum . . 34--39
Stanley N. Cohen and
James A. Shapiro Transposable Genetic Elements . . . . . 40--49
Joyce Marcus Zapotec Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--64
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 68--78
Riccardo Giacconi The Einstein X-Ray Observatory . . . . . 80--102
Robert B. Smith and
Robert L. Christiansen Yellowstone Park as a window on the
Earth's interior . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--117
J. J. Reilly and
Gary D. Sandrock Hydrogen Storage in Metal Hydrides . . . 118--129
James T. Todd and
Leonard S. Mark and
Robert E. Shaw and
John B. Pittenger The Perception of Human Growth . . . . . 132--144
Mary K. Wicksten Decorator Crabs . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--154
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 158--170
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--172
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 24--38
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--50
Harold W. Lewis The Safety of Fission Reactors . . . . . 53--65
Maurice Jacob and
Peter Landshoff The Inner Structure of the Proton . . . 66--75
Peter V. Addyman Eburacum, Jorvik, York . . . . . . . . . 76--86
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 88--96
Edward Rubenstein Diseases Caused by Impaired
Communication Among Cells . . . . . . . 102--121
Fred L. Whipple The Spin of Comets . . . . . . . . . . . 124--134
Richard E. Dickerson Cytochrome c and the Evolution of Energy
Metabolism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--153
Cliff Frohlich The Physics of Somersaulting and
Twisting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--164
William G. Eberhard Horned Beetles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--182
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 184--192
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 19--27
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--37
Matthew Meselson and
Julian Perry Robinson Chemical Warfare and Chemical
Disarmament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--47
Francis Van Noten and
Daniel Cahen and
Lawrence Keeley A Paleolithic Campsite in Belgium . . . 48--55
Richard L. Naeye Sudden Infant Death . . . . . . . . . . 56--62
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 64--72
Walter Gilbert and
Lydia Villa-Komaroff Useful Proteins from Recombinant
Bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--96
Praveen Chaudhari and
Bill C. Giessen and
David Turnbull Metallic Glasses . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--117
John D. Barrow and
Joseph Silk The Structure of the Early Universe . . 118--128
Marc Bekoff and
Michael C. Wells The Social Ecology of Coyotes . . . . . 130--148
James H. Schwartz The Transport of Substances in Nerve
Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--171
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 172--176
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 16--24
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--40
Eli Ginzberg Youth Unemployment . . . . . . . . . . . 43--49
Juri Matisoo The Superconducting Computer . . . . . . 50--65
Daniel M. Greenberger and
Albert W. Overhauser The Role of Gravity in Quantum Theory 66--76
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 78--87
Pierre Morell and
William T. Norton Myelin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--114
R. K. O'Nions and
P. J. Hamilton and
Norman M. Evensen The Chemical Evolution of the Earth's
Mantle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--133
I. M. Klotz The N-ray affair . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--124, 126, 129--131
Ralph O. Erickson and
Wendy Kuhn Silk The Kinematics of Plant Growth . . . . . 134--151
Borislav Jovanovi\'c The Origins of Copper Mining in Europe 152--167
Irving M. Klotz The N-Ray Affair . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--175
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 176--184
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 20--32
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--42
Fritz Fuchs Genetic Amniocentesis . . . . . . . . . 47--53
Harry Y. McSween, Jr. and
Edward M. Stolper Basaltic Meteorites . . . . . . . . . . 54--63
Hans Berliner Computer Backgammon . . . . . . . . . . 64--72
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 74--85
Marjorie B. Zucker The Functioning of Blood Platelets . . . 86--103
Gerard 't Hooft Gauge Theories of the Forces between
Elementary Particles . . . . . . . . . . 104--138
T. Gold and
S. Soter The deep-Earth-gas hypothesis . . . . . 130--137
Lawrence Guy Straus and
Geoffrey A. Clark and
Jesus Altuna and
Jesus A. Ortea Ice-Age Subsistence in Northern Spain 142--152
Thomas Gold and
Steven Soter The Deep-Earth-Gas Hypothesis . . . . . 154--161
Randy Thornhill Sexual Selection in the Black-tipped
Hangingfly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--172
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 174--184
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 18--31
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--41
William Epstein A Ban on the Production of Fissionable
Material for Weapons . . . . . . . . . . 43--51
M. Leventhal and
C. J. MacCallum Gamma-ray-line astronomy . . . . . . . . 50--58
David Koffler Systemic \em Lupus Erythematosus . . . . 52--61
Marvin Leventhal and
Crawford J. MacCallum Gamma-Ray-Line Astronomy . . . . . . . . 62--70
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 72--77
Glyn Daniel Megalithic Monuments . . . . . . . . . . 78--90
Manuel G. Velarde and
Christiane Normand Convection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--108
Robert Degabriele The Physiology of the Koala . . . . . . 110--116
William R. Bauer and
F. H. C. Crick and
James H. White Supercoiled DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--133
E. Eugene Larrabee The Screw Propeller . . . . . . . . . . 134--148
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 150--161
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 14--18
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--45
George Sternlieb and
James W. Hughes The Changing Demography of the Central
City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--53
Gordon H. Pettengill and
Donald B. Campbell and
Harold Masursky The Surface of Venus . . . . . . . . . . 54--65 (Intl. ed. 46--57)
Pierre Dustin Microtubules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--76
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 80--90
Peter Beaconsfield and
George Birdwood and
Rebecca Beaconsfield The Placenta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--102
Philip Ekstrom and
David Wineland The Isolated Electron . . . . . . . . . 104--121
R. M. White Disk-storage technology . . . . . . . . 112--121
Jean-François Jarrige and
Richard H. Meadow The Antecedents of Civilization in the
Indus Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--133
Robert M. White Disk-Storage Technology . . . . . . . . 138--148
Stillman Drake Newton's Apple and Galileo's Dialogue 150--156 (Intl. ed. 123)
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 158--167
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--168
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 20--24
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--56
K. K. S. Dadzie Economic Development . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
Halfdan Mahler People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--77
Nevin S. Scrimshaw and
Lance Taylor Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--88
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 90--98
Robert P. Ambroggi Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--116
Wolfgang Sassin Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--132
Ding Chen The Economic Development of China . . . 152--165
Raj Krishna The Economic Development of India . . . 166--178
Robert B. Mabele and
William M. Lyakurwa and
Beno J. Ndulu and
Samuel M. Wangwe The Economic Development of Tanzania . . 182--190
Pablo Gonzalez Casanova The Economic Development of Mexico . . . 192--204
Wassily W. Leontief The World Economy of the Year 2000 . . . 206--231
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 232--243
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--246
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 16--26
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--45
Ernest W. Saward and
Scott Fleming Health Maintenance Organizations . . . . 47--53
Bruce Margon The Bizarre Spectrum of SS 433 . . . . . 54--65
Cesar Milstein Monoclonal Antibodies . . . . . . . . . 66--75
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 77--90
Kurt Nassau The Causes of Color . . . . . . . . . . 124--154
M. M. Ter-Pogossian and
M. E. Raichle and
B. E. Sobel Positron-emission tomography . . . . . . 140--142, 44, 46, 49--55
Frederick A. Cook and
Larry D. Brown and
Jack E. Oliver The Southern Appalachians and the growth
of continents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--168
Michel M. Ter-Pogossian and
Marcus E. Raichle and
Burton E. Sobel Positron-Emission Tomography . . . . . . 170--181
Richard A. Dick and
Sheldon P. Wimpfen Oil Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--188
Peter Ward and
Lewis Greenwald and
Olive E. Greenwald The Buoyancy of the Chambered Nautilus 190--203
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 204--209
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--210
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 18--30
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--48
Reuel A. Stallones The Rise and Fall of Ischemic Heart
Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--59
Robert T. Schimke Gene Amplification and Drug Resistance 60--69
Frederic H. Chaffee, Jr. The Discovery of a Gravitational Lens 70--78
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 80--89
Nathan Sharon Carbohydrates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--116
T. H. Geballe and
J. K. Hulm Superconductors in electric-power
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113, 115--116, 118--20, 122, 124, 126, 128, 130, 132, 135--136
Donald E. Parker The Vestibular Apparatus . . . . . . . . 118--135
T. H. Geballe and
J. K. Hulm Superconductors in Electric-Power
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--172
P. S. Bellwood The Peopling of the Pacific . . . . . . 174--185
Robert T. McIver, Jr. Chemical Reactions without Solvation . . 186--196
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 198--208
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--210
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--11
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 18--28
Philip and
Phylis Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--60
Kevin N. Lewis Intermediate-Range Nuclear Weapons . . . 63--73
Stillman Drake and
Charles T. Kowal Galileo's Sighting of Neptune . . . . . 74--81 (Intl. ed. 52)
Frank Wilczek The Cosmic Asymmetry between Matter and
Antimatter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--90
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 92--100
Richard P. Novick Plasmids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--127
Richard S. Davis and
Vadim A. Ranov and
Andrey E. Dodonov Early Man in Soviet Central Asia . . . . 130--137
Vincent P. Dole Addictive Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . 138--154
Jeffrey M. Camhi The Escape System of the Cockroach . . . 158--172
David Emil Thomas Mirror Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--228
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 230--238
Anonymous Annual Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--245
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--12
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--21
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 22--32
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--53
H. William Menard Toward a Rational Strategy for Oil
Exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--65
T. O. Diener Viroids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73
Robert K. Jarvik The Total Artificial Heart . . . . . . . 74--80
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 82--90
Paul W. Hodge The Andromeda Galaxy . . . . . . . . . . 92--101
Moshe Feldman and
Ernest R. Sears The Wild Gene Resources of Wheat . . . . 102--112
Jerry A. Fodor The Mind Body Problem . . . . . . . . . 114--123
Toyoichi Tanaka Gels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--138
David A. Hounshell Two Paths to the Telephone . . . . . . . 156--163
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 164--169
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 17--20
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--28
Joel S. Wit Advances in Antisubmarine Warfare . . . 31--41
J. Neil Rutger and
D. Marlin Brandon California Rice Culture . . . . . . . . 42--51
Roger D. Kornberg and
Aaron Klug The Nucleosome . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--64
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 66--78
Noel R. Rose Autoimmune Diseases . . . . . . . . . . 80--103
J. G. Learned and
D. Eichler A deep-sea neutrino telescope . . . . . 104--106, 107--113
Olin C. Wilson and
Arthur H. Vaughan and
Dimitri Mihalas The Activity Cycles of Stars . . . . . . 104--119
Wann Langston, Jr. Pterosaurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--136
John G. Learned and
David Eichler A Deep-Sea Neutrino Telescope . . . . . 138--152
Thurstan Shaw The Nok Sculptures of Nigeria . . . . . 154--166
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 168--175
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 20--35
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--46
Eli Ginzberg and
George J. Vojta The Service Sector of the U.S. Economy 48--55
Keith R. Porter and
Jonathan B. Tucker The Ground Substance of the Living Cell 56--67
Robert Decker and
Barbara Decker The Eruptions of Mount St. Helens . . . 68--80
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 82--91
Bart J. Bok The Milky Way galaxy . . . . . . . . . . 92--120
John Pettitt and
Sophie Ducker and
Bruce Knox Submarine Pollination . . . . . . . . . 134--143
Irvin Rock Anorthoscopic Perception . . . . . . . . 145--153
Milton J. Friedman and
William Trager The Biochemistry of Resistance to
Malaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--164
I. Bernard Cohen Newton's Discovery of Gravity . . . . . 166--179
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 182--192
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 18--26
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--38
Steven A. Fetter and
Kosta Tsipis Catastrophic Releases of Radioactivity 41--47
Howard Georgi A Unified Theory of Elementary Particles
and Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--63
Stephen E. Levinson and
Mark Y. Liberman Speech Recognition by Computer . . . . . 64--76
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 78--86
Manfred Eigen and
William Gardiner and
Peter Schuster and
Ruthild Winkler-Oswatitsch The Origin of Genetic Information . . . 88--118
Robert E. Williams The Shells of Novas . . . . . . . . . . 120--131
Richard W. Merritt and
J. Bruce Wallace Filter-Feeding Insects . . . . . . . . . 132--147
Vernard Foley and
Werner Soedel Ancient Oared Warships . . . . . . . . . 148--163
Daniel C. Tosteson Lithium and Mania . . . . . . . . . . . 164--174
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 176--184
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 15--36
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--47
Charles L. Gray, Jr. and
Frank von Hippel The Fuel Economy of Light Vehicles . . . 48--59
Pierre Chambon Split Genes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--71
Walter H. G. Lewin The Sources of Celestial X-Ray Bursts 72--82
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 86--99
Ken C. Macdonald and
Bruce P. Luyendyk The Crest of the East Pacific Rise . . . 100--116
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Countercurrent Systems in Animals . . . 118--128
Daniel Kleppner and
Michael G. Littman and
Myron L. Zimmerman Highly Excited Atoms . . . . . . . . . . 130--149
Benjamin H. Beard The Sunflower Crop . . . . . . . . . . . 150--161
Else Glahn Chinese Building Standards in the 12th
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--173
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 174--184
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Freeman J. Dyson Letter to the Editor: The Origin of
Genetic Information . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--21
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 22--32
H. M. Agnew Gas-cooled nuclear power reactors . . . 43--51
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--52
Harold M. Agnew Gas-Cooled Nuclear Power Reactors . . . 55--63
Steven Weinberg The Decay of the Proton . . . . . . . . 64--75
E. P. Abraham The Beta-Lactam Antibiotics . . . . . . 76--86
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 88--96
Carl R. Woese Archaebacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--122
Robert G. Bland The Allocation of Resources by Linear
Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--144
Bernd Heinrich The Regulation of Temperature in the
Honeybee Swarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--160
George W. Wetherill The Formation of the Earth from
Planetesimals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--174 (Intl. ed. 130--140)
Noël H. Gale and
Zofia Stos-Gale Lead and Silver in the Ancient Aegean 176--192
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 194--200
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 18--30
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--40
Stefan Nowak Values and Attitudes of the Polish
People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--53
Arthur F. Pillsbury The Salinity of Rivers . . . . . . . . . 54--65
Gerald Schubert and
Curt Covey The Atmosphere of Venus . . . . . . . . 66--74 (Intl. ed. 44--52)
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 76--84
W. French Anderson and
Elaine G. Diacumakos Genetic Engineering in Mammalian Cells 106--121
Herbert J. Bernstein and
Anthony V. Phillips Fiber Bundles and Quantum Theory . . . . 122--137
James E. Lloyd Mimicry in the Sexual Signals of
Fireflies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--145
John I. Yellott, Jr. Binocular Depth Inversion . . . . . . . 148--159
Harold Dorn and
Robert Mark The Architecture of Christopher Wren . . 160--173
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 176--187
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--188
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--11
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 16--26
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--34
Paul F. Walker Precision-Guided Weapons . . . . . . . . 36--45
Gareth Wynn-Williams The Newest Stars in Orion . . . . . . . 46--55
Gary A. Strobel and
Gerald N. Lanier Dutch Elm Disease . . . . . . . . . . . 56--66
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 68--74
James A. Lake The Ribosome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--97
S. L. Semiatin and
G. D. Lahoti The Forging of Metals . . . . . . . . . 98--106
Peter J. Webster Monsoons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--118
P. C. Woodman A Mesolithic Camp in Ireland . . . . . . 120--132
S. S. Wilson Sadi Carnot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--145
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 146--152
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 18--30
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--60
Arnold L. Demain and
Nadine A. Solomon Industrial Microbiology . . . . . . . . 66--75
Herman J. Phaff Industrial Microorganisms . . . . . . . 76--89
David A. Hopwood The Genetic Programming of Industrial
Microorganisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--102
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 106--122
Anthony H. Rose The Microbiological Production of Food
and Drink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--138
Yair Aharonowitz and
Gerald Cohen The Microbiological Production of
Pharmaceuticals . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--152
Douglas E. Eveleigh The Microbiological Production of
Industrial Chemicals . . . . . . . . . . 154--178
Elmer L. Gaden, Jr. Production Methods in Industrial
Microbiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--196
Winston J. Brill Agricultural Microbiology . . . . . . . 198--215
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 216--224
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--14
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 23--34
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--48
Leonard T. Kurland and
Craig A. Molgaard The Patient Record in Epidemiology . . . 54--63
David I. Groves and
John S. R. Dunlop and
Roger Buick An Early Habitat of Life . . . . . . . . 64--73
Joel M. Weisberg and
Joseph H. Taylor and
Lee A. Fowler Gravitational Waves from an Orbiting
Pulsar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--82
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 84--96
Floyd E. Bloom Neuropeptides . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--168
Carleen Maley Hutchins The Acoustics of Violin Plates . . . . . 170--186
André Wegener Sleeswyk Vitruvius' Odometer . . . . . . . . . . 188--200 (Intl. ed. 158)
R. I. G. Hughes Quantum Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--213
T. M. Cannon and
B. R. Hunt Image Processing by Computer . . . . . . 214--225
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 226--236
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--238
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 22--43
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--50
Philip M. Hauser The Census of 1980 . . . . . . . . . . . 53--61
Michael Lampton The Microchannel Image Intensifier . . . 62--71
Paul Howard-Flanders Inducible Repair of DNA . . . . . . . . 72--80
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 85--100
James B. Pollack and
Jeffrey N. Cuzzi Rings in the Solar System . . . . . . . 104--129
J. A. Barker and
Douglas Henderson The Fluid Phases of Matter . . . . . . . 130--138
H. Frederik Nijhout The Color Patterns of Butterflies and
Moths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--151
Florence Moog The Lining of the Small Intestine . . . 154--176
James A. Tuck and
Robert Grenier A 16th-Century Basque Whaling Station in
Labrador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--190 (Intl. ed. 126)
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 192--200
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 18--30
Philip and
Phylis Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--47
Kosta Tsipis Laser Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--57
Richard P. Blakemore and
Richard B. Frankel Magnetic Navigation in Bacteria . . . . 58--65
Aubrey Burl The Recumbent Stone Circles of Scotland 66--72
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 74--86
Andrew P. Ingersoll Jupiter and Saturn . . . . . . . . . . . 90--108 (Intl. ed. 66--80)
R. Pavelle and
M. Rothstein and
J. Fitch Computer Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--113
Eric I. Knudsen The Hearing of the Barn Owl . . . . . . 112--125
Russell F. Doolittle Fibrinogen and Fibrin . . . . . . . . . 126--135
Richard Pavelle and
Michael Rothstein and
John Fitch Computer Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--139, 143, 145--146, 151--152
George Gale The Anthropic Principle . . . . . . . . 154--171
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 172--178
Anonymous Annual Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--185
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 16--28
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--48
Eli Ginzberg The Social Security System . . . . . . . 51--57
Dale A. Russell The Mass Extinctions of the Late
Mesozoic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
Isaac F. Silvera and
Jook Walraven The Stabilization of Atomic Hydrogen . . 66--74
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 77--80
Laurence A. Soderblom and
Torrence V. Johnson The Moons of Saturn . . . . . . . . . . 100--116 (Intl. ed. 72--75, 78--86)
Ronald D. Levine Supercomputers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--135
Gunther S. Stent and
David A. Weisblat The Development of a Simple Nervous
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--146
Paul Bernard An Ancient Greek City in Central Asia 148--159
Daniel Kahneman and
Amos Tversky The Psychology of Preferences . . . . . 160--173
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 174--179
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--180
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 18--26
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--36
Arthur C. Upton The biological effects of low-level
ionizing radiation . . . . . . . . . . . 41--48
Richard L. Hay and
Mary D. Leakey The Fossil Footprints of Laetoli . . . . 50--57
Kai Simons and
Henrik Garoff and
Ari Helenius How an Animal Virus Gets into and out of
its Host Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--66
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 70--78
Tobias Owen Titan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--109
William C. Gardiner, Jr. The Chemistry of Flames . . . . . . . . 110--124
Patrick S. Osmer Quasars as probes of the distant and
early Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--138
Joseph S. Levine and
Edward F. MacNichol, Jr. Color Vision in Fishes . . . . . . . . . 140--149
A. D. Moore Henry A. Rowland . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--161
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 162--169
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 18--29
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--38
Charles B. Keely Illegal Migration . . . . . . . . . . . 41--47
David B. Cline and
Carlo Rubbia and
Simon van der Meer The Search for Intermediate Vector
Bosons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--59
Peter H. Wiebe Rings of the Gulf Stream . . . . . . . . 60--70
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 73--76
J. Michael Bishop Oncogenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--92
Aldo V. La Rocca Laser Applications in Manufacturing . . 94--103
Stephen A. Gregory and
Laird A. Thompson Superclusters and voids in the
distribution of galaxies . . . . . . . . 106--114
Eric A. Newman and
Peter H. Hartline The Infrared ``Vision'' of Snakes . . . 116--127
Craig Van Dyke and
Robert Byck Cocaine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--141
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 142--152
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 16--28
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--36
Fred S. Ellers Advanced Offshore Oil Platforms . . . . 38--49
Richard J. Wurtman Nutrients that Modify Brain Function . . 50--59
Arch C. Johnston A major earthquake zone on the
Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--68
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 70--80
Leo Blitz Giant molecular-cloud complexes in the
Galaxy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--94
Clyde F. E. Roper and
Kenneth J. Boss The Giant Squid . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--105
Richard A. Carrigan, Jr. and
W. Peter Trower Superheavy Magnetic Monopoles . . . . . 106--118
John Wennberg and
Alan Gittelsohn Variations in Medical Care among Small
Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--135
Tony Rothman The Short Life of Évariste Galois . . . . 136--149
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 150--161
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 20--34
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--52
Davidson R. Gwatkin and
Sarah K. Brandel Life Expectancy and Population Growth in
the Third World . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--65
Elliott D. Bloom and
Gary J. Feldman Quarkonium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--77
Ian L. Pykett NMR Imaging in Medicine . . . . . . . . 78--88
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 92--101
Philip Leder The Genetics of Antibody Diversity . . . 102--115
David Policansky The Asymmetry of Flounders . . . . . . . 116--122
Roger D. Blandford and
Mitchell C. Begelman and
Martin J. Rees Cosmic Jets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--143
Gordon Moyer The Gregorian Calendar . . . . . . . . . 144--152
James F. Shepard The Regeneration of Potato Plants from
Leaf-Cell Protoplasts . . . . . . . . . 154--166
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 170--177
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 16--28
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--40
Richard P. Sheldon Phosphate Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--51
Anthony C. S. Readhead Radio Astronomy by Very-Long-Baseline
Interferometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--61
Wai Yiu Cheung Calmodulin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--70
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 73--81
Marvin L. Cohen and
Volker Heine and
James C. Phillips The Quantum Mechanics of Materials . . . 82--102
Arlette Leroi-Gourhan The Archaeology of Lascaux Cave . . . . 104--112
Brian L. Partridge The Structure and Function of Fish
Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--123
Robert H. Wurtz and
Michael E. Goldberg and
David Lee Robinson Brain Mechanisms of Visual Attention . . 124--135
Lord Ritchie-Calder The Lunar Society of Birmingham . . . . 136--145
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 146--153
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 16--31
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--38
John N. Bahcall and
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. The Space Telescope . . . . . . . . . . 40--51
Klaus Bechgaard and
Denis Jérome Organic Superconductors . . . . . . . . 52--61
Michael A. Markowski Ultralight Airplanes . . . . . . . . . . 62--68
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 70--78
Charles J. Lada Energetic Outflows from Young Stars . . 82--93
James C. Wang DNA Topoisomerases . . . . . . . . . . . 94--109
Kaj Johansen Aneurysms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--125
J. David Ligon and
Sandra H. Ligon The Cooperative Breeding Behavior of the
Green Woodhoopoe . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--134
Alan Tormey and
Judith Farr Tormey Renaissance Intarsia: The Art of
Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--143
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 146--153
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 16--24
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--33
Roger Revelle Carbon Dioxide and World Climate . . . . 35--43
Corale L. Brierley Microbiological Mining . . . . . . . . . 44--53
Klaas S. de Boer and
Blair D. Savage The Coronas of Galaxies . . . . . . . . 54--62
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 64--68
Paul D. Buisseret Allergy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--95
Robert Gomer Surface Diffusion . . . . . . . . . . . 98--109
Lawrence E. Gilbert The Coevolution of a Butterfly and a
Vine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--121
Ian G. Gass Ophiolites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--131
Owen Gingerich The Galileo Affair . . . . . . . . . . . 132--143
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 144--148
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--150
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 18--34
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--62
Eli Ginzberg The Mechanization of Work . . . . . . . 66--75
Wayne D. Rasmussen The Mechanization of Agriculture . . . . 76--89
Robert L. Marovelli and
John M. Karhnak The Mechanization of Mining . . . . . . 90--102
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 105--113
Thomas G. Gunn The Mechanization of Design and
Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--130
Martin L. Ernst The Mechanization of Commerce . . . . . 132--145
Vincent E. Giuliano The Mechanization of Office Work . . . . 148--164
Joan Wallach Scott The Mechanization of Women's Work . . . 166--187
Wassily W. Leontief The Distribution of Work and Income . . 188--204
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 206--216
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 20--29
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--44
Lynn R. Sykes and
Jack F. Evernden The Verification of a Comprehensive
Nuclear Test Ban . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--55
Rodolfo R. Llinás Calcium in Synaptic Transmission . . . . 56--65
Jerome Kristian and
Morley Blouke Charge-Coupled Devices in Astronomy . . 66--74
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 76--84
David L. Waltz Artificial Intelligence . . . . . . . . 118--135
Ronald E. Rosensweig Magnetic Fluids . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--145
David K. Lynch Tidal Bores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--156
Thomas D. Seeley How Honeybees Find a Home . . . . . . . 158--168
F. Richard Stephenson Historical Eclipses . . . . . . . . . . 170--183
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 184--193
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--17
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 18--36
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--49
Randall Forsberg A Bilateral Nuclear-Weapon Freeze . . . 52--61
John R. Beddington and
Robert M. May The Harvesting of Interacting Species in
a Natural Ecosystem . . . . . . . . . . 62--69
David L. Jones and
Allan Cox and
Peter Coney and
Myrl Beck The Growth of Western North America . . 70--84
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 86--92
Mark Ptashne and
Alexander D. Johnson and
Carl O. Pabo A Genetic Switch in a Bacterial Virus 128--141
Kenzo Ishikawa Glueballs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--156
David Crews and
William R. Garstka The Ecological Physiology of a Garter
Snake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--168
Thomas D. Rossing The Physics of Kettledrums . . . . . . . 172--178
Edward R. Landa The First Nuclear Industry . . . . . . . 180--193
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 194--205
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 18--33
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--42
Daniel R. Vining, Jr. Migration between the Core and the
Periphery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--53
Charles Elachi Radar Images of the Earth from Space . . 54--61
Martha Constantine-Paton and
Margaret I. Law The Development of Maps and Stripes in
the Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--70
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 74--82
Hoo-min D. Toong and
Amar Gupta Personal Computers . . . . . . . . . . . 86--107
Richard A. Mewaldt and
Edward C. Stone and
Mark E. Wiedenbeck Samples of the Milky Way . . . . . . . . 108--121
M. A. R. Koehl The Interaction of Moving Water and
Sessile Organisms . . . . . . . . . . . 124--134
Carl Pomerance The Search for Prime Numbers . . . . . . 136--147 (Intl. ed. 122)
Cleo Rickman Fitch The Lamps of Cosa . . . . . . . . . . . 148--160
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 162--171
Anonymous Annual Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--176
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 14--22
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--34
Joseph Feder and
William R. Tolbert The Large-Scale Cultivation of Mammalian
Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--43
Marc H. Raibert and
Ivan E. Sutherland Machines That Walk . . . . . . . . . . . 44--53
A. J. Hudspeth The Hair Cells of the Inner Ear . . . . 54--64
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 66--73
David J. Mossman and
William A. S. Sarjeant The Footprints of Extinct Animals . . . 74--85
R. G. Shulman NMR Spectroscopy of Living Cells . . . . 86--93
Neville H. Fletcher and
Suszanne Thwaites The Physics of Organ Pipes . . . . . . . 94--103 (Intl. ed. 84--93)
Bruce Margon The Origin of the Cosmic X-Ray
Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--119
Hua Jue-ming The Mass Production of Iron Castings in
Ancient China . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--129
Jue-ming Hua Mass Production of Iron Castings in
Ancient China . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--124
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 130--137
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 14--28
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--43
Sandra S. Batie and
Robert G. Healy The Future of American Agriculture . . . 45--53
Claudio Rebbi The Lattice Theory of Quark Confinement 54--65
Richard A. Lerner Synthetic Vaccines . . . . . . . . . . . 66--74
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 76--83
Eitan Abraham and
Colin T. Seaton and
S. Desmond Smith The Optical Computer . . . . . . . . . . 85--93 (Intl. ed. 63--71)
Jeremy M. Wolfe Hidden Visual Processes . . . . . . . . 94--103
Richard Wolfson The Active Solar Corona . . . . . . . . 104--119
Charles W. Myers and
John W. Daly Dart-Poison Frogs . . . . . . . . . . . 120--133
Walter C. Leedy, Jr. Fan Vaulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--145
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 146--153
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 13--14
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 22--31
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--40
Elisabeth Mann Borgese The Law of the Sea . . . . . . . . . . . 42--49
David A. Patterson Microprogramming . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57 (Intl. ed. 36--43)
Walter A. Fairservis, Jr. The Script of the Indus Valley
Civilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--66
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 68--74
Leslie A. Grivell Mitochondrial DNA . . . . . . . . . . . 78--89
Duane A. Dicus and
John R. Letaw and
Doris C. Teplitz and
Vigdor L. Teplitz The Future of the Universe . . . . . . . 90--101 (Intl. ed. 74--85)
Sara J. Shettleworth Memory in Food-Hoarding Birds . . . . . 102--110
Irving R. Epstein and
Kenneth Kustin and
Patrick De Kepper and
Miklos Orban Oscillating Chemical Reactions . . . . . 112--123
Stephen A. Geller Autopsy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--136
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 138--145
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 14--28
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--34
J. B. Angell and
S. C. Terry and
P. W. Barth Silicon micromechanical devices . . . . 36--47
Barry M. Blechman and
Mark R. Moore A Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Europe . . 37--43
James B. Angell and
Stephen C. Terry and
Phillip W. Barth Silicon Micromechanical Devices . . . . 44--55 (Intl. ed. 36)
James B. Angell and
Stephen C. Terry and
Phillip W. Barth Silicon Micromechanical Devices . . . . 44--55
Haim Harari The Structure of Quarks and Leptons . . 56--68
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 69--76
John M. Edmond and
Karen Von Damm Hot Springs on the Ocean Floor . . . . . 78--93
Adrian R. Morrison A Window on the Sleeping Brain . . . . . 94--102
Peter Bogucki and
Ryszard Grygiel Early Farmers of the North European
Plain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--112
John Tyler Bonner Chemical Signals of Social Amoebae . . . 114--120
Michael McCloskey Intuitive Physics . . . . . . . . . . . 122--130
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 132--137
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--138
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 16--26
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--49
Paul F. Walker Smart Weapons in Naval Warfare . . . . . 53--61
George F. Bertsch Vibrations of the Atomic Nucleus . . . . 62--73 (Intl. ed. 40--51)
Christian de Duve Microbodies in the Living Cell . . . . . 74--84
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 88--95
Wilson G. Pond Modern Pork Production . . . . . . . . . 96--103
J. D. Birchall and
Anthony Kelly New Inorganic Materials . . . . . . . . 104--115
Persi Diaconis and
Bradley Efron Computer-Intensive Methods in Statistics 116--130
Michel Bur The Social Influence of the
Motte-and-Bailey Castle . . . . . . . . 132--140
Arthur T. Winfree Sudden Cardiac Death: a Problem in
Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--161
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 162--169
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 14--28
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--38
Gerben DeJong and
Raymond Lifchez Physical Disability and Public Policy 40--49
Mary-Dell Chilton A Vector for Introducing New Genes into
Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--59
Peter Francis Giant Volcanic Calderas . . . . . . . . 60--70
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 74--84
Wu Rukang and
Lin Shenglong Peking Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--94
Vera C. Rubin Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies . . . . . 96--106, 108
John W. Kanwisher and
Sam H. Ridgway The Physiological Ecology of Whales and
Porpoises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--120
Joseph W. Dauben Georg Cantor and the Origins of
Transfinite Set Theory . . . . . . . . . 122--131 (Intl. ed. 112)
Lewis Weiner The Slide Fastener . . . . . . . . . . . 132--136, 138, 143--144
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 146--153
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas . . . . . . . . . . . 14--20
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--30
Larry Long and
Diana DeAre The Slowing of Urbanization in the U.S. 33--41
Vincent Courtillot and
Gregory E. Vink How Continents Break up . . . . . . . . 42--49
Lauren R. Donaldson and
Timothy Joyner The Salmonid Fishes as a Natural
Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--58
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 60--68
Daniel L. Alkon Learning in a Marine Snail . . . . . . . 70--84
A. J. Blodgett, Jr. Microelectronic packaging . . . . . . . 76--86
Albert J. Blodgett, Jr. Microelectronic Packaging . . . . . . . 86--96 (Intl. ed. 76)
Donald R. Kaplan The Development of Palm Leaves . . . . . 98--105
Nariman B. Mistry and
Ronald A. Poling and
Edward H. Thorndike Particles with Naked Beauty . . . . . . 106--115
Derek Bickerton Creole Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--122
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 124--129
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--10
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 12--21
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--27
Donald D. Trunkey Trauma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--35
Sidney Pestka The Purification and Manufacture of
Human Interferons . . . . . . . . . . . 36--43
E. N. Parker Magnetic Fields in the Cosmos . . . . . 44--54 (Intl. ed. 36--46)
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 58--63
Roy S. Lewis and
Edward Anders Interstellar Matter in Meteorites . . . 66--77 (Intl. ed. 54--66)
Glenn D. Prestwich The Chemical Defenses of Termites . . . 78--87
Douglas H. Blair and
Robert A. Pollak Rational Collective Choice . . . . . . . 88--95
Petter Aune and
Ronald L. Sack and
Arne Selberg The Stave Churches of Norway . . . . . . 96--105
Charles Bigelow and
Donald Day Digital Typography . . . . . . . . . . . 106--119
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 120--127
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 18--28
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--44
Raymond Siever The Dynamic Earth . . . . . . . . . . . 46--55 (Intl. ed. 30--39)
Raymond Jeanloz The Earth's Core . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--65 (Intl. ed. 40--49)
D. P. McKenzie The Earth's Mantle . . . . . . . . . . . 66--78
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 82--92
W. S. Broecker The ocean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--112
Jean Francheteau The Oceanic Crust . . . . . . . . . . . 114--129 (Intl. ed. 68--84)
B. Clark Burchfiel The Continental Crust . . . . . . . . . 130--134, 136--142 (Intl. ed. 86--98)
Wallace S. Broecker The Ocean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--160
Wallace S. Broecker Ocean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Andrew P. Ingersoll The Atmosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--165, 167--174 (Intl. ed. 114--130)
Preston Cloud The Biosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--189
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 190--201
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--18
Brian Hayes Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 22--36
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--60
Philip L. Martin Labor-Intensive Agriculture . . . . . . 54--59
J. Silk and
A. S. Szalay and
Y. B. Zel'dovich The large-scale structure of the
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--64
Robert W. Conn The Engineering of Magnetic Fusion
Reactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--71
Joseph Silk and
Alexander S. Szalay and
Yakov B. Zel'dovich The Large-Scale Structure of the
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--80
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 82--88
James E. Darnell, Jr. The Processing of RNA . . . . . . . . . 90--100
Ilana Steinhorn and
Joel R. Gat The Dead Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--109
B. O. K. Reeves Six Millenniums of Buffalo Kills . . . . 120--135
Peter Ward The Extinction of the Ammonites . . . . 136--147
Herbert F. York Bilateral Negotiations and the Arms Race 149--160
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 162--169
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Brian Hayes Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 18--28
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--37
Matthew Bunn and
Kosta Tsipis The Uncertainties of a Preemptive
Nuclear Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--47
Edward J. Wasp Slurry Pipelines . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
Jack O. Burns and
R. Marcus Price Centaurus A: the Nearest Active Galaxy 56--66 (Intl. ed. 50--60)
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 70--80
G. H. Dohler Solid-state superlattices . . . . . . . 118--126
Robert A. Weinberg A Molecular Basis of Cancer . . . . . . 126--142
Gottfried H. Döhler Solid-State Superlattices . . . . . . . 144--151
Colin Renfrew The Social Archaeology of Megalithic
Monuments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--163
Gerald A. Rosenthal A Seed-Eating Beetle's Adaptations to a
Poisonous Seed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--171
Peter Francis and
Stephen Self The Eruption of Krakatau . . . . . . . . 172--187
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 188--196
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Brian Hayes Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 19--28
Philip and
Phylis Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--47
John D. Harbron Modern Icebreakers . . . . . . . . . . . 49--55
Torrence V. Johnson and
Laurence A. Soderblom Io . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--67
Peter S. Wells An Early Iron Age Farm Community in
Central Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--74
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 76--88
Richard E. Dickerson The DNA Helix and How it is Read . . . . 94--111
Bryce S. DeWitt Quantum Gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--129
Arthur T. Bergerud Prey Switching in a Simple Ecosystem . . 130--141
Albert C. Gross and
Chester R. Kyle and
Douglas J. Malewicki The Aerodynamics of Human-Powered Land
Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--145, 148--152
Donald D. Hoffman The Interpretation of Visual Illusions 154--162
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 164--170
Anonymous Annual Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--177
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Brian Hayes Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 10--16
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--33
John Steinbruner Launch under Attack . . . . . . . . . . 37--47
Michael R. Rampino and
Stephen Self The Atmospheric Effects of El Chichón . . 48--57
Wm. C. McHarris and
John O. Rasmussen High-Energy Collisions Between Atomic
Nuclei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--66 (Intl. ed. 44--52)
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 70--76
M. S. Swaminathan Rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--93
Charles J. Cole Unisexual Lizards . . . . . . . . . . . 94--100
Masayasu Nomura The Control of Ribosome Synthesis . . . 102--114
N. J. A. Sloane The Packing of Spheres . . . . . . . . . 116--125
Arthur F. Scott The Invention of the Balloon and the
Birth of Modern Chemistry . . . . . . . 126--137
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 138--143
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Brian Hayes Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 14--20
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--37
Nathan Keyfitz The Population of China . . . . . . . . 38--47
Gonzalo Vidal The Oldest Eukaryotic Cells . . . . . . 48--57
Curt Covey The Earth's Orbit and the Ice Ages . . . 58--66
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 68--76
Nigel Unwin and
Richard Henderson The Structure of Proteins in Biological
Membranes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--94 (Intl. ed. 56--66)
Donald H. Levy The Spectroscopy of Supercooled Gases 96--109 (Intl. ed. 68--76)
Jöran Friberg Numbers and Measures in the Earliest
Written Records . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--118
Suzanne W. T. Batra Solitary Bees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--127
Timothy A. Salthouse The Skill of Typing . . . . . . . . . . 128--135
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 136--144
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Brian Hayes Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 12--21
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--31
Kurt Gottfried and
Henry W. Kendall and
John M. Lee ``No First Use'' of Nuclear Weapons . . 33--41
Charles D. Hollister and
Arthur R. M. Nowell and
Peter A. Jumars The Dynamic Abyss . . . . . . . . . . . 42--53
Richard H. Scheller and
Richard Axel How Genes Control an Innate Behavior . . 54--62
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 64--74
David Pilbeam The Descent of Hominoids and Hominids 84--96
James P. Wolfe and
André Mysyrowicz Excitonic Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--107 (Intl. ed. 70--79)
Gerald Oster Muscle Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--114
F. H. Bronson The Adaptability of the House Mouse . . 116--125
I. Bernard Cohen Florence Nightingale . . . . . . . . . . 128--137
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 138--143
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist: What is a Fish's
View of a Fisherman and the Fly He Has
Cast on the Water? . . . . . . . . . . . 138--143
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Fred Gruenberger Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 19--26
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--33
R. V. Short Breast Feeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--41
Nick Scoville and
Judith S. Young Molecular clouds, star formation and
galactic structure . . . . . . . . . . . 42--53
A. Jayaraman The Diamond-Anvil High-Pressure Cell . . 54--62 (Intl. ed. 42--50)
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 66--84
John T. Snow The Tornado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--96
Tomaso Poggio Vision by Man and Machine . . . . . . . 106--116
Gerald M. Edelman Cell-Adhesion Molecules: a Molecular
Basis for Animal Form . . . . . . . . . 118--129
John R. Horner The Nesting Behavior of Dinosaurs . . . 130--137
C. F. W. Higham Prehistoric Rice Cultivation in
Southeast Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--146 (Intl. ed. 100)
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 150--153
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 14--22
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations: In the game called
Core War hostile programs engage in a
battle of bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--22
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--31
Jack Robert Miller Steel Minimills . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--39
Enrico Bonatti and
Kathleen Crane Oceanic Fracture Zones . . . . . . . . . 40--51
Alice Dautry-Varsat and
Harvey F. Lodish How Receptors Bring Proteins and
Particles into Cells . . . . . . . . . . 52--58
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 62--72
John E. Hopcroft Turing Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--92, 94--98 (Intl. ed. 70--80)
Janice Moore Parasites that Change the Behavior of
their Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--115
Alan H. Guth and
Paul J. Steinhardt The Inflationary Universe . . . . . . . 116--128
J. M. Adovasio and
R. C. Carlisle An Indian Hunters' Camp for 20,000 Years 130--136
Andrew Cliff and
Peter Haggett Island Epidemics . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--147
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 148--153
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 19--26
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--43
Richard L. Garwin and
Kurt Gottfried and
Donald L. Hafner Antisatellite Weapons . . . . . . . . . 45--55
Heather Lechtman Pre-Columbian Surface Metallurgy . . . . 56--63
Steven M. Stanley Mass Extinctions in the Ocean . . . . . 64--72
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 74--83
Nina V. Fedoroff Transposable Genetic Elements in Maize 84--99
Marie-Anne Bouchiat and
Lionel Pottier An Atomic Preference between Left and
Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--111
Lee C. Ryker Acoustic and Chemical Signals in the
Life Cycle of a Beetle . . . . . . . . . 112--123
J. Mayo Greenberg The Structure and Evolution of
Interstellar Grains . . . . . . . . . . 124--135
Frederick E. Graves Nuts and Bolts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--138, 140, 142--144
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 146--153
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 14--27
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--38
Ellen L. Bassuk The Homelessness Problem . . . . . . . . 40--45
Roger Hékinian Undersea Volcanoes . . . . . . . . . . . 46--55
R. John Collier and
Donald A. Kaplan Immunotoxins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--64
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 66--68
Paul W. Webb Form and Function in Fish Swimming . . . 72--82
Minas Kafatos and
Andrew G. Michalitsianos Symbiotic Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--94
W. P. Thurston and
J. R. Weeks The mathematics of three-dimensional
manifolds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--106
Joseph D. Becker Multilingual Word Processing . . . . . . 96--107 (Intl. ed. 82--93)
William P. Thurston and
Jeffrey R. Weeks The Mathematics of Three-Dimensional
Manifolds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--120
Terry S. Reynolds Medieval Roots of the Industrial
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--130
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 132--137
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--138
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 19--23
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--31
Richard P. Turco and
Owen B. Toon and
Thomas P. Ackerman and
James B. Pollack and
Carl Sagan The Climatic Effects of Nuclear War . . 33--43
Guy Ourisson and
Pierre Albrecht and
Michel Rohmer The Microbial Origin of Fossil Fuels . . 44--51
John S. Mathis and
Blair D. Savage and
Joseph P. Cassinelli A superluminous object in the Large
Cloud of Magellan . . . . . . . . . . . 52--60
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 62--66
Tony Hunter The Proteins of Oncogenes . . . . . . . 70--79
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma The Great Temple of Tenochtitlán . . . . 80--88
Dina F. Mandoli and
Winslow R. Briggs Fiber Optics in Plants . . . . . . . . . 90--98 (Intl. ed. 80--88)
Berthold K. P. Horn and
Katsushi Ikeuchi The mechanical manipulation of randomly
oriented parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--106, 108, 110--111 (Intl. ed. 90--99)
Peter B. Stacey and
Walter D. Koenig Cooperative Breeding in the Acorn
Woodpecker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--121
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 122--129
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 22--35
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--51
Alan C. Kay Computer Software . . . . . . . . . . . 52--59 (Intl. ed. 40--47)
Niklaus Wirth Data Structures and Algorithms . . . . . 60--69 (Intl. ed. 48--57)
Lawrence G. Tesler Programming Languages . . . . . . . . . 70--78
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 82--91
Peter J. Denning and
Robert L. Brown Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 94--106
Terry Winograd Computer Software for Working With
Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--145 (Intl. ed. 90--101)
Andries van Dam Computer Software for Graphics . . . . . 146--159
Michael Lesk Computer Software for Information
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--172 (Intl. ed. 115--124)
Alfred Z. Spector Computer Software for Process Control 174--186
Stephen Wolfram Computer Software in Science and
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--203
Douglas B. Lenat Computer Software for Intelligent
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--213
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 215--227
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--19
Yank D. Weed Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 20--27
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--37
Hans A. Bethe and
Richard L. Garwin and
Kurt Gottfried and
Henry W. Kendall Space-Based Ballistic-Missile Defense 39--49
Stanley B. Prusiner Prions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--59
Don L. Anderson and
Adam M. Dziewonski Seismic Tomography . . . . . . . . . . . 60--68
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 72--80
Arnold I. Caplan Cartilage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--94
Margherita Hack Epsilon Aurigae . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--105
Tom D. Dillehay A Late Ice-Age Settlement in Southern
Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--117
A. I. Tselikov The Continuous Processing of Metals in
the U.S.S.R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--122, 124--129
Folke T. Kihlstedt The Crystal Palace . . . . . . . . . . . 132--143
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 144--152
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 19--28
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--39
Leon M. Lederman The Value of Fundamental Science . . . . 40--47
Harm J. Habing and
Gerry Neugebauer The Infrared Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--57
Michael S. Brown and
Joseph L. Goldstein How LDL Receptors Influence Cholesterol
and Atherosclerosis . . . . . . . . . . 58--66
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 70--76
Samuel A. Matz Modern Baking Technology . . . . . . . . 122--134
Anonymous The $ {\rm C}^3 $ laser . . . . . . . . 126--135
Donald R. Perry The Canopy of the Tropical Rain Forest 138--147
W. T. Tsang The C 3 Laser . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--161
Mikhail I. Gladkih and
Ninelj L. Kornietz and
Olga Soffer Mammoth-Bone Dwellings on the Russian
Plain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--175
Robert Mark and
William W. Clark Gothic Structural Experimentation . . . 176--185
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 186--193
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--194
J. C. Abegglen and
A. Etori Japanese technology today . . . . . . . J4--23
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 14--22
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations: Sharks and fish
wage an ecological war on the toroidal
planet Wa-Tor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--22
Philip and
Phylis Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--43
Samuel H. Preston Children and the Elderly in the U.S. . . 44--49
Richard G. Brewer and
Erwin L. Hahn Atomic Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
Corey S. Goodman and
Michael J. Bastiani How Embryonic Nerve Cells Recognize One
Another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--66
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 68--74
John Monforte The Digital Reproduction of Sound . . . 78--84
Philip H. Brownell Prey Detection by the Sand Scorpion . . 86--97
Ye. A. Kozlovsky The World's Deepest Well . . . . . . . . 98--104
Lynn A. Cooper and
Roger N. Shepard Turning Something Over in the Mind . . . 106--114
John D. Harbron The Spanish Ship of the Line . . . . . . 116--129
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 130--139
Anonymous Annual Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--145
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 14--20
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--29
Ashton B. Carter The Command and Control of Nuclear War 32--39
Alan P. Boss Collapse and Formation of Stars . . . . 40--45
Peter D. Eimas The Perception of Speech in Early
Infancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--52
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 54--58
Richard J. Wurtman Alzheimer's Disease . . . . . . . . . . 62--74
Walter Greiner and
Horst Stöcker Hot Nuclear Matter . . . . . . . . . . . 76--87
Robert J. McEliece The Reliability of Computer Memories . . 88--92, 94--95
John M. Gosline and
M. Edwin DeMont Jet-Propelled Swimming in Squids . . . . 96--103
Vernard Foley and
George Palmer and
Werner Soedel The Crossbow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--110
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 112--119
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--17
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 18--21
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--33
Robert L. Wesson and
Robert E. Wallace Predicting the Next Great Earthquake in
California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--43
B. E. Schaefer Gamma-ray bursters . . . . . . . . . . . 40--46
John E. Donelson and
Mervyn J. Turner How the Trypanosome Changes its Coat . . 44--51
Bradley E. Schaefer Gamma-Ray Bursters . . . . . . . . . . . 52--58
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 60--69
Bernard H. Lavenda Brownian Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--85 (Intl. ed. 56--67)
T. H. Clutton-Brock Reproductive Success in Red Deer . . . . 86--92
Eli Brookner Phased-Array Radars . . . . . . . . . . 94--102 (Intl. ed. 76--84)
Gerald E. Loeb The Functional Replacement of the Ear 104--111
Oleg D. Sherby and
Jeffrey Wadsworth Damascus Steels . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--120
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 122--127
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 14--23
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations: a Core War
bestiary of viruses, worms and other
threats to computer memories . . . . . . 14--23
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--35
David Hafemeister and
Joseph J. Romm and
Kosta Tsipis The Verification of Compliance with
Arms-Control Agreements . . . . . . . . 38--45
Ronald G. Prinn The Volcanoes and Clouds of Venus . . . 46--53 (Intl. ed. 36--43)
Carlo M. Croce and
George Klein Chromosome Translocations and Human
Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--60
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 62--72
Daniel Z. Freedman and
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen The Hidden Dimensions of Spacetime . . . 74--81
Hal Whitehead Why Whales Leap . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--93
R. J. Mercer A Neolithic Fortress and Funeral Center 94--101
S. Thomas Picraux and
Paul S. Peercy Ion Implantation of Surfaces . . . . . . 102--113
Eric Block The Chemistry of Garlic and Onions . . . 114--118
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 122--127
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--18
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 20--30
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--41
Daniel R. Vining, Jr. The Growth of Core Regions in the Third
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--49
Gregory E. Vink and
W. Jason Morgan and
Peter R. Vogt The Earth's Hot Spots . . . . . . . . . 50--57
Yves Dunant and
Maurice Israël The Release of Acetylcholine . . . . . . 58--66
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 70--83
Chris Quigg Elementary Particles and Forces . . . . 84--95
Alex L. Shigo Compartmentalization of Decay in Trees 96--103
Don Mathewson The clouds of Magellan . . . . . . . . . 106--114
Peter M. Winter and
John N. Miller Anesthesiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--131
W. Garrett Scaife The Parsons Steam Turbine . . . . . . . 132--139
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 140--144
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 18--30
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--43
Edward E. David, Jr. The Federal Support of Mathematics . . . 45--51
G. Nigel Godson Molecular Approaches to Malaria Vaccines 52--59
Hans A. Bethe and
Gerald Brown How a Supernova Explodes . . . . . . . . 60--68
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 70--87
R. M. Hazen and
L. W. Finger Crystals at high pressure . . . . . . . 84--91
Frank V. Kosikowski Cheese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--92
James N. Cameron Molting in the Blue Crab . . . . . . . . 102--109
Robert M. Hazen and
Larry W. Finger Crystals at High Pressure . . . . . . . 110--117
Hans Wallach Perceiving a Stable Environment . . . . 118--124
Gottfried Frenzel The Restoration of Medieval Stained
Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--135
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 138--143
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 18--29
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--34
Wassily Leontief The Choice of Technology . . . . . . . . 37--45
Richard L. Edelson and
Joseph M. Fink The Immunologic Function of Skin . . . . 46--53
J. M. LoSecco and
Frederick Reines and
Daniel Sinclair The Search for Proton Decay . . . . . . 54--62
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 64--76
Ivan R. King Globular Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . 78--88
A. G. Cairns-Smith The First Organisms . . . . . . . . . . 90--100
Michael P. Ghiglieri The Social Ecology of Chimpanzees . . . 102--113
A. Trevor Hodge Siphons in Roman Aqueducts . . . . . . . 114--119
Walter Tape The Topology of Mirages . . . . . . . . 120--129
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 130--134
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 14--19
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations: a circuitous
odyssey from Robotropolis to the
electronic gates of Silicon Valley . . . 14--19
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--29
C. Arden Miller Infant Mortality in the U.S. . . . . . . 31--37
Robert Hamilton Brown and
Dale P. Cruikshank The Moons of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto 38--47 (Intl. ed. 28--37)
Charles H. Bennett and
Rolf Landauer The Fundamental Physical Limits of
Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--56 (Intl. ed. 38--46)
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 58--69
G. Ledyard Stebbins and
Francisco J. Ayala The Evolution of Darwinism . . . . . . . 72--82
Gary K. Beauchamp and
Kunio Yamazaki and
Edward A. Boyse The Chemosensory Recognition of Genetic
Individuality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--92
Peter M. Warren Minoan Palaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--103
Arie Issar Fossil Water Under the Sinai-Negev
Peninsula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--110 (Intl. ed. 82--88)
Douglass H. Morse Milkweeds and their Visitors . . . . . . 112--119
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 122--126
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 16--24
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations: a computer
microscope zooms in for a look at the
most complex object in mathematics . . . 17--21, 24
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--31
William Epstein A Critical Time for Nuclear
Nonproliferation . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--39
Stephen W. Carmichael and
Hans Winkler The Adrenal Chromaffin Cell . . . . . . 40--49
Gerd Binnig and
Heinrich Rohrer The Scanning Tunneling Microscope . . . 50--56 (Intl. ed. 40--46)
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 59--69
Timothy H. Boyer The Classical Vacuum . . . . . . . . . . 70--78
Eric Buffetaut and
Rucha Ingavat The Mesozoic Vertebrates of Thailand . . 80--87
Frederick D. Seward and
Paul Gorenstein and
Wallace H. Tucker Young Supernova Remnants . . . . . . . . 88--96
Uwe Radok The Antarctic Ice . . . . . . . . . . . 98--105
Joel G. Kingsolver Butterfly Engineering . . . . . . . . . 106--113
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 114--118
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--15
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 18--24
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--38
Frank von Hippel and
David H. Albright and
Barbara G. Levi Stopping the Production of Fissile
Materials for Weapons . . . . . . . . . 40--47
John W. Leibacher and
Robert W. Noyes and
Juri Toomre and
Roger K. Ulrich Helioseismology . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--57
Peter Albersheim and
Alan G. Darvill Oligosaccharins . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--64
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 66--72
James E. Rothman The Compartmental Organization of the
Golgi Apparatus . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--89
John H. Sinfelt Bimetallic Catalysts . . . . . . . . . . 90--96, 98
Robert R. Jackson A Web-Building Jumping Spider . . . . . 102--115
Michael T. Motley Slips of the Tongue . . . . . . . . . . 116--127
Thomas D. Seeley and
Joan W. Nowicke and
Matthew Meselson and
Jeanne Guillemin and
Pongthep Akratanakul Yellow Rain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--137
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 138--143
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 16--27
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--47
Robert A. Weinberg The Molecules of Life . . . . . . . . . 48--57
Gary Felsenfeld Dna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--67
James E. Darnell, Jr. Rna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--78
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 80--86
Russell F. Doolittle Proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--99
Mark S. Bretscher The Molecules of the Cell Membrane . . . 100--108
Klaus Weber and
Mary Osborn The Molecules of the Cell Matrix . . . . 110--120
Susumu Tonegawa The Molecules of the Immune System . . . 122--131
Solomon H. Snyder The Molecular Basis of Communication
between Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--141
Michael J. Berridge The Molecular Basis of Communication
within the Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--152
Walter J. Gehring The Molecular Basis of Development . . . 152--162
Allan C. Wilson The Molecular Basis of Evolution . . . . 164--173
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 176--180
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--184
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 21--32
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations: Exploring the
field of genetic algorithms in a
primordial computer sea full of flibs 21--32
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--47
John Cairns The Treatment of Diseases and the War
against Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--59
P. Kevin MacKeown and
Trevor C. Weekes Cosmic Rays from Cygnus X-3 . . . . . . 60--69
Ernesto Carafoli and
John T. Penniston The Calcium Signal . . . . . . . . . . . 70--78
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 103--115
David G. Howell Terranes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--125
Martin E. Feder and
Warren W. Burggren Skin Breathing in Vertebrates . . . . . 126--142
Mark Drela and
John S. Langford Human-Powered Flight . . . . . . . . . . 144--151
Robert McIvor Smart Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--159
Jean S. Aigner Early Arctic Settlements in North
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--169
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 170--177
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 16--26
Philip and
Phylis Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--43
Herbert Lin The development of software for
ballistic-missile defense . . . . . . . 46--53
Vladimir V. Shkunov and
Boris Ya. Zel'dovich Optical Phase Conjugation . . . . . . . 54--59
Franz Huber and
John Thorson Cricket Auditory Communication . . . . . 60--68
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 74--83
Jeffrey Laurence The Immune System in AIDS . . . . . . . 84--93
Peter H. Schultz Polar Wandering on Mars . . . . . . . . 94--102
Daniel Gorenstein The Enormous Theorem . . . . . . . . . . 104--115
Vaclav Smil China's Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--124
Lothar Haselberger The Construction Plans for the Temple of
Apollo at Didyma . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--132
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 134--145
Anonymous Annual Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--149
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--150
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Anonymous How Close Encounters with Star Clusters
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Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 16--25
Diane B. Paul Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--31
James A. Van Allen Space Science, Space Technology and the
Space Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--39
Leo Sachs Growth, Differentiation and the Reversal
of Malignancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
John C. Brandt and
Malcolm B. Niedner, Jr. The Structure of Comet Tails . . . . . . 48--56
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 60--71
David M. Pepper Applications of Optical Phase
Conjugation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--83 (Intl. ed. 56--65)
Peter A. Rona Mineral Deposits from Sea-Floor Hot
Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--92 (Intl. ed. 66--74)
Gerald A. Rosenthal The Chemical Defenses of Higher Plants 94--99
Anonymous An Inexpensive Homemade Polarimeter Can
Analyze Optically Active Compounds . . . 98
Robert E. M. Hedges and
John A. J. Gowlett Radiocarbon Dating by Accelerator Mass
Spectrometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--107 (Intl. ed. 82--89)
Andrew R. Blaustein and
Richard K. O'Hara Kin Recognition in Tadpoles . . . . . . 108--116
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 120--125
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The King (a Chess Program) is Dead, Long
Live the King (a Chess Machine) . . . . 12
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 13--21
Leon J. Kamin Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--27
Fred H. Tschirley Dioxin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--35 (Intl. ed. 21)
Philippa Marrack and
John Kappler The T Cell and its Receptor . . . . . . 36--45
Vitalii I. Goldanskii Quantum Chemical Reactions in the Deep
Cold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--52
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 54--64
John C. Mutter Seismic Images of Plate Boundaries . . . 66--75
Marc Cantin and
Jacques Genest The Heart as an Endocrine Gland . . . . 76--81
Charles G. Sibley and
Jon E. Ahlquist Reconstructing Bird Phylogeny by
Comparing DNA's . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--92
Jean-Pierre Protzen Inca Stonemasonry . . . . . . . . . . . 94--105
Anonymous A Homemade Device for Testing Particle
Scattering; Experiments in Zero Gravity 98
Michael Hoskin William Herschel and the Making of
Modern Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--112
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 114--118
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Anonymous How a Pair of Dull-Witted Programs Can
Look Like Geniuses on IQ Tests . . . . . 10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 14--21
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--29
Richard K. Lester Rethinking Nuclear Power . . . . . . . . 31--39 (Intl. ed. 23--31)
Edward W. Hones, Jr. The Earth's Magnetotail . . . . . . . . 40--47
Richard M. Lawn and
Gordon A. Vehar The Molecular Genetics of Hemophilia . . 48--54
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 58--65
J. David Jackson and
Maury Tigner and
Stanley Wojcicki Letters: The Superconducting
Supercollider . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--77
J. David Jackson and
Maury Tigner and
Stanley Wojcicki The Superconducting Supercollider . . . 66--77 (Intl. ed. 56--67)
K. J. Niklas Computer-Simulated Plant Evolution . . . 78--86
Karl J. Niklas Computer-Simulated Plant Evolution . . . 78--86
Ronald A. Finke Mental Imagery and the Visual System . . 88--95
Glynis Jones and
Kenneth Wardle and
Paul Halstead and
Diana Wardle Crop Storage at Assiros . . . . . . . . 96--103
Anonymous Methods and Optics of Perceiving Color
in a Black-and-White Grating . . . . . . 100
Chester R. Kyle Athletic Clothing . . . . . . . . . . . 104--110 (Intl. ed. 92)
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 112--118
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--6
Anonymous A Program for Rotating Hypercubes
Induces Four-Dimensional Dementia . . . 8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 14--23
Salvador E. Luria Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--31
Miroslav Nincic Can the U.S. Trust the U.S.S.R.? . . . . 33--41
Martin Karplus and
J. Andrew McCammon The Dynamics of Proteins . . . . . . . . 42--51 (Intl. ed. 30)
Bertrand I. Halperin The Quantized Hall Effect . . . . . . . 52--60
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 62--73
Owen Gingerich Islamic Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . 74--83
Eberhard Gwinner Internal Rhythms in Bird Migration . . . 84--92
Dana Z. Anderson Optical Gyroscopes . . . . . . . . . . . 94--99 (Intl. ed. 86)
Dana Z. Anderson Optical Gyroscopes . . . . . . . . . . . 94--99
Hugo Lagercrantz and
Theodore A. Slotkin The ``Stress'' of Being Born . . . . . . 100--107
Don Smithers and
Klaus Wogram and
John Bowsher Playing the Baroque Trumpet . . . . . . 108--115
Anonymous Wonders with the Retroreflector, a
Mirror that Removes Distortion from a
Light Beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 118--123
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--7
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Branching Phylogenies of the Paleozoic
and the Fortunes of English Family Names 12
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--14
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 16--27
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--35
Mickey S. Eisenberg and
Lawrence Bergner and
Alfred P. Hallstrom and
Richard O. Cummins Sudden Cardiac Death . . . . . . . . . . 37--43
Sen-itiroh Hakomori Glycosphingolipids . . . . . . . . . . . 44--53
Robert M. Haberle The Climate of Mars . . . . . . . . . . 54--62 (Intl. ed. 42--50)
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 66--73
James H. Aubert and
Andrew M. Kraynik and
Peter B. Rand Aqueous Foams . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--82
T. G. Philips and
D. B. Rutledge Superconducting tunnel detectors in
radio astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--84
Stephen J. O'Brien and
David E. Wildt and
Mitchell Bush The Cheetah in Genetic Peril . . . . . . 84--92
Thomas G. Phillips and
David B. Rutledge Superconducting Tunnel Detectors in
Radio Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--102
Anonymous Wire that ``Remembers'' its Shape is Put
to Work Running an Engine . . . . . . . 102
Marek Zvelebil Postglacial Foraging in the Forests of
Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--115
Sandra Herbert Darwin as a Geologist . . . . . . . . . 116--123
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 124--127
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Casting a Net on a Checkerboard and
Other Puzzles of the Forest . . . . . . 14
Martin Gardner Mathematical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 16--23
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--31
Eric D. Larson and
Marc H. Ross and
Robert H. Williams Beyond the Era of Materials . . . . . . 34--41
Richard O. Hynes Fibronectins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--51
Howard E. Haber and
Gordon L. Kane Is Nature Supersymmetric? . . . . . . . 52--60
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 62--72
Colin S. Ramage El Niño . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--83
Thomas F. Robinson and
Stephen M. Factor and
Edmund H. Sonnenblick The Heart as a Suction Pump . . . . . . 84--91
Gerald Borgia Sexual Selection in Bowerbirds . . . . . 92--100
Anonymous Mirrors Make a Maze so Bewildering that
the Explorer Must Rely on a Map . . . . 98
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and
Stuart M. Anstis The Perception of Apparent Motion . . . 102--109
Peter M. Moretti and
Louis V. Divone Modern Windmills . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--116, 118 (Intl. ed. 88)
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 120--126
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--15
Anonymous A Sublime Flight of Fancy over a
Deserted Data Base . . . . . . . . . . . 12
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 16--24
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--31
C. Wiley Hinman Potential New Crops . . . . . . . . . . 32--37
Jack O. Burns Very large structures in the Universe 38--47
Ronald C. Kennedy and
Joseph L. Melnick and
Gordon R. Dreesman Anti-Idiotypes and Immunity . . . . . . 48--56
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 58--68
Peter Molnar The Structure of Mountain Ranges . . . . 70--79
J. H. Hamilton and
J. A. Maruhn Exotic Atomic Nuclei . . . . . . . . . . 80--89
Frank A. Geldard and
Carl E. Sherrick Space, Time and Touch . . . . . . . . . 90--95
Ralph Norman Haber Flight Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . 96--103
Neil F. Hadley The Arthropod Cuticle . . . . . . . . . 104--112
Anonymous Exotic Patterns Appear in Water When it
is Freezing or Melting . . . . . . . . . 108
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 114--119
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Digital Prestidigitation: The Fine Art
of Magic and Illusion by Computer . . . 10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 17--25
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--31
John Prados and
Joel S. Wit and
Michael J. Zagurek, Jr. The Strategic Nuclear Forces of Britain
and France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--41
David R. Nelson Quasicrystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--51
Alan Fine Transplantation in the Central Nervous
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--58B
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 62--67
R. Stephen Craxton and
Robert L. McCrory and
John M. Soures Progress in Laser Fusion . . . . . . . . 68--79
Paul C. Mangelsdorf The Origin of Corn . . . . . . . . . . . 80--86
George E. Williams The Solar Cycle in Precambrian Time . . 88--96
Charles C. Coutant Thermal Niches of Striped Bass . . . . . 98--104
Norman Hammond The Emergence of Maya Civilization . . . 106--115
Anonymous Retracing the Steps by which Aluminum
Metal was Initially Purified back in
1886 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 116--119
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 14--23
Anonymous Wallpaper for the Mind: Computer Images
That Are Almost, But Not Quite,
Repetitive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Lester C. Thurow Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--31
Kenneth R. Foster and
Arthur W. Guy The Microwave Problem . . . . . . . . . 32--39 (Intl. ed. 28--35)
Dennis H. Rouvray Predicting Chemistry from Topology . . . 40--47
Michael B. Green Superstrings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--56
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 64--71
Gary W. Goldstein and
A. Lorris Betz The Blood-Brain Barrier . . . . . . . . 74--83
Philippe Brou and
Thomas R. Sciascia and
Lynette Linden and
Jerome Y. Lettvin The Colors of Things . . . . . . . . . . 84--91
Francesco Paresce and
Stuart Bowyer The Sun and the Interstellar Medium . . 92--99
Joyce R. Richardson Brachiopods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--106
Vernard Foley and
Werner Soedel Leonardo's Contributions To Theoretical
Mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--113 (Intl. ed. 104)
Anonymous Rainbow Holograms, Unlike Conventional
Ones, Can be Observed in Ordinary Light 110
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 114--119
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 11--19
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--19
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 20--28
Anonymous The Compleat Computer Caricaturist and a
Whimsical Tour of Face Space . . . . . . 20
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--49
Joel P. Clark and
Merton C. Flemings Advanced Materials and the Economy . . . 50--57
John S. Mayo Materials for Information and
Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
Morris A. Steinberg Materials for Aerospace . . . . . . . . 66--72
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 74--91
W. Dale Compton and
Norman A. Gjostein Materials for Ground Transportation . . 92--100
Robert A. Fuller and
Jonathan J. Rosen Materials for Medicine . . . . . . . . . 96--103
Richard S. Claassen and
Louis A. Girifalco Materials for Energy Utilization . . . . 102--117
Robert A. Fuller and
Jonathan J. Rosen Materials for Medicine . . . . . . . . . 118--125 (Intl. ed. 96)
Robert A. Fuller and
Jonathan J. Rosen Materials for Medicine . . . . . . . . . 119--125
Gerald L. Liedl The Science of Materials . . . . . . . . 126--134
Praveen Chaudhari Electronic and Magnetic Materials . . . 136--144
J. M. Rowell Photonic Materials . . . . . . . . . . . 146--157
Bernard H. Kear Advanced Metals . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--167
Kent H. Bowen Advanced Ceramics . . . . . . . . . . . 168--176
Eric Baer Advanced Polymers . . . . . . . . . . . 178--190
Anonymous Cracks in a Surface Look Intricately
Random But Actually Develop Rather
Systematically . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Tsu-Wei Chou and
Roy L. McCullough and
R. Byron Pipes Composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--203
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 204--209
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--212
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Star Trek Emerges from the Underground
to a Place in the Home-Computer Arcade 12
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 14--18
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--26
William C. Baer The Shadow Market in Housing . . . . . . 29--35
Richard P. Laeser and
William I. McLaughlin and
Donna M. Wolff Engineering Voyager 2's Encounter with
Uranus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--45 (Intl. ed. 34--43)
William E. Carter and
Douglas S. Robertson Studying the Earth by Very-Long-Baseline
Interferometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--54 (Intl. ed. 44--52)
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 54--63
Thomas R. Cech RNA as an Enzyme . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--75
Martinus J. G. Veltman The Higgs Boson . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--84
Joseph T. Eastman and
Arthur L. DeVries Antarctic Fishes . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--114
Anne Treisman Features and Objects in Visual
Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--125
Anonymous The Hyperscope and the Pseudoscope Aid
Experiments on Three-Dimensional Vision 124
Lawrence S. Lerner and
Edward A. Gosselin Galileo and the Specter of Bruno . . . . 126--133
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 134--138
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 14--20
Anonymous Computer Graphics at Pixar, of Fractal
Mountains, Graftal Plants and Other
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--37
Donald W. Light Corporate Medicine for Profit . . . . . 38--45
James P. Crutchfield and
J. Doyne Farmer and
Norman H. Packard and
Robert S. Shaw Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--57 (Intl. ed. 38--49)
Lawrence M. Krauss Dark matter in the Universe . . . . . . 58--68
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 72--86
Robert C. Gallo The First Human Retrovirus . . . . . . . 88--98
Richard H. Masland The Functional Architecture of the
Retina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--111
Michael L. Evans and
Randy Moore and
Karl-Heinz Hasenstein How Roots Respond to Gravity . . . . . . 112--119
Alec N. Brooks and
Allan V. Abbott and
David Gordon Wilson Human-Powered Watercraft . . . . . . . . 120--130
Anonymous Methods for Going Through a Maze Without
Becoming Lost or Confused . . . . . . . 124
Donald J. Watts and
Carol Martin Watts A Roman Apartment Complex . . . . . . . 132--138
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 140--151
Anonymous Annual Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--151
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--152
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 14--20
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations: a program called
MICE nibbles its way to victory at the
first Core War tournament . . . . . . . 14--20 (Intl. ed. 8)
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--27
Lynn R. Sykes and
Dan M. Davis The Yields of Soviet Strategic Weapons 29--37
Andrew P. Ingersoll Uranus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--45 (Intl. ed. 30--37)
Robert C. Gallo The AIDS Virus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--56 (Intl. ed. 38)
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 58--59
James L. Gould and
Peter Marler Learning by Instinct . . . . . . . . . . 74--85
Terry R. Penney and
Desikan Bharathan Power from the Sea . . . . . . . . . . . 86--92 (Intl. ed. 74--80)
Leonard M. Sander Fractal Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--100
Michael L. Ryder The Solution of the Fleece . . . . . . . 100
Marc J. Ostro Liposomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--110
Anonymous Reflections from a Water Surface Display
Some Curious Properties . . . . . . . . 108
Michael L. Ryder The Evolution of the Fleece . . . . . . 112--119
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 120--126
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Anonymous The Game Life Acquires Some Successors
in Three Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations: The Game of Life
Acquires some Successors in Three
Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17, 20--22, 24
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--34
Robert Day Allen The Microtubule as an Intracellular
Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
J. Larry Brown Hunger in the U.S. . . . . . . . . . . . 36--41
Robert Day Allen The Microtubule as an Intracellular
Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--49
Jacob Shaham The oldest pulsars in the Universe . . . 50--56
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 58--89
Franklin W. Stahl Genetic Recombination . . . . . . . . . 90--101
Anonymous The Secret of a Microwave Oven's Rapid
Cooking Action is Disclosed . . . . . . 98
Mordehai Heiblum and
Lester F. Eastman Ballistic Electrons in Semiconductors 102--111
C. Hans Nelson and
Kirk R. Johnson Whales and Walruses as Tillers of the
Sea Floor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--117
Jonathan R. Cole and
Harriet Zuckerman Marriage, Motherhood and Research
Performance in Science . . . . . . . . . 119--125
Max V. Mathews and
John R. Pierce The Computer as a Musical Instrument . . 126--133 (Intl. ed. 90--97)
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 134--138
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Braitenberg Memoirs: Vehicles for
Probing Behavior Roam a Dark Plain
Marked by Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 16--24
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations: Braitenberg
Memoirs --- Vehicles for probing
behavior roam a dark plain marked by
lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--24
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--33
Frank R. Vellutino Dyslexia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--41
James M. Hogle and
Marie Chow and
David J. Filman The Structure of Poliovirus . . . . . . 42--49
William D. Phillips and
Harold J. Metcalf Cooling and Trapping Atoms . . . . . . . 50--56
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 58--75
J. F. Power and
R. F. Follett Monoculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--86
Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa and
Demetri Psaltis Optical Neural Computers . . . . . . . . 88--95 (Intl. ed. 66--73)
Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa and
Demetri Psaltis Optical Neural Computers . . . . . . . . 88--95
Enrico Bonatti The Rifting of Continents . . . . . . . 96--103
Anonymous Calculating the Distance to the Sun by
Observing the Trail of a Meteor . . . . 100
Bernd Heinrich Thermoregulation in Winter Moths . . . . 104--111
T. Douglas Price and
Erik Brinch Petersen A Mesolithic Camp in Denmark . . . . . . 112--121
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 122--126
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Sound of Computing is Music to the
Ears of Some . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 14--21
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--29
Theodore B. Taylor Third-Generation Nuclear Weapons . . . . 30--39
Theodore B. Taylor Third-Generation Nuclear Weapons . . . . 30--39
Julie L. Schnapf and
Denis A. Baylor How Photoreceptor Cells Respond to Light 40--47 (Intl. ed. 32--39)
Torrence V. Johnson and
Robert Hamilton Brown and
Laurence A. Soderblom The Moons of Uranus . . . . . . . . . . 48--60 (Intl. ed. 40--52)
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 62--74
Martin S. Hirsch and
Joan C. Kaplan Antiviral Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . 76--85
Yoshihiro Hamakawa Photovoltaic Power . . . . . . . . . . . 86--92
Mark A. S. McMenamin The Emergence of Animals . . . . . . . . 94--102
Sinyan Shen Acoustics of Ancient Chinese Bells . . . 104--110
Nicholas Toth The First Technology . . . . . . . . . . 112--121
Anonymous Making a Barometer That Works with Water
in Place of Mercury . . . . . . . . . . 114
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 122--127
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Of Bulls, Bears and Programs in the Pit 14
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 16--21
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--28
Lester C. Thurow A Surge in Inequality . . . . . . . . . 30--37
Victor E. Viola and
Grant J. Mathews The Cosmic Synthesis of Lithium,
Beryllium and Boron . . . . . . . . . . 38--45
Tomaso Poggio and
Christof Koch Synapses that Compute Motion . . . . . . 46--52
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 54--68
Stephen H. Schneider Climate Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--80
Anthony Cerami and
Helen Vlassara and
Michael Brownlee Glucose and Aging . . . . . . . . . . . 90--96 (Intl. ed. 82)
James S. Walker and
Chester A. Vause Reappearing Phases . . . . . . . . . . . 98--105 (Intl. ed. 90)
William C. Davis The Detonation of Explosives . . . . . . 106--112 (Intl. ed. 98--105)
Anonymous Concerning Disappearances, Including the
Cheshire Cat's Odd Vanishing Act . . . . 114
James J. Childress and
Horst Felbeck and
George N. Somero Symbiosis in the Deep Sea . . . . . . . 115--120
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 122--126
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 18--33
Michael H. Glantz Drought in Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 34--40
Douglas C. Youvan and
Barry L. Marrs Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis 42--48
Andrew D. Jeffries and
Peter R. Saulson and
Robert E. Spero and
Michael E. Zucker Gravitational Wave Observatories . . . . 50--57, 60
Mortimer Mishkin and
Tim Appenzeller The Anatomy of Memory . . . . . . . . . 80--89
W. D. Hillis The Connection Machine . . . . . . . . . 86--93
Peter Francis and
Stephen Self Collapsing Volcanoes . . . . . . . . . . 90--97
Warren M. Zapol Diving Adaptations of the Weddell Seal 100--105
Anonymous Puzzles in Two and Three Dimensions, and
Ways to Simplify Their Solution . . . . 100
Anonymous Algopuzzles: Wherein Trains of Thought
Follow Algorithmic Tracks to Solutions 106
W. Daniel Hillis The Connection Machine . . . . . . . . . 108--115 (Intl. ed. 86)
Barton J. Bernstein The Birth of the U.S. Biological-Warfare
Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--121
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 122--126
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 128--131
Brian M. Fagan Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--135
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 16--32
Julian Szekeley Can Advanced Technology Save the U.S.
Steel Industry? . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--41
Lubert Stryer The Molecules of Visual Excitation . . . 42--50
Jeffrey N. Cuzzi and
Larry W. Esposito The Rings of Uranus . . . . . . . . . . 52--66 (Intl. ed. 42--48)
Robert Dolan and
Harry Lins Beaches and Barrier Islands . . . . . . 68--77
Gail S. Habicht and
Gregory Beck and
Jorge L. Benach Lyme Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--83
Johann Rafelski and
Steven E. Jones Cold Nuclear Fusion . . . . . . . . . . 84--89 (Intl. ed. 66--71)
Anonymous Why a Fluid Flows Faster When the Tube
is Pinched . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Karl J. Niklas Aerodynamics of Wind Pollination . . . . 90--95
Anonymous Probing the Strange Attractions of Chaos 90
Gus W. Van Beek Arches and Vaults in the Ancient Near
East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--103
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 104--107
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 108--111
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--115
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 14--31
John S. Letcher, Jr. and
John K. Marshall and
James C. Oliver III and
Nils Salvesen Stars & Stripes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--40 (Intl. ed. 24)
Alan D. Krisch Collisions Between Spinning Protons . . 42--50
David Patterson The Causes of Down Syndrome . . . . . . 52--60
Gordon L. Ada and
Sir Gustav Nossal The Clonal-Selection Theory . . . . . . 62--69
Christopher J. Talbot and
Martin P. A. Jackson Salt Tectonics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--79 (Intl. ed. 58--67)
William R. Frensley Gallium Arsenide Transistors . . . . . . 80--87 (Intl. ed. 68--75)
Anthony J. Legge and
Peter A. Rowley-Conwy Gazelle Killing in Stone Age Syria . . . 88--95
Anonymous Music and Ammonia Vapor Excite the Color
Pattern of a Soap Film . . . . . . . . . 92
Robert W. Shaw Air Pollution by Particles . . . . . . . 96--103 (Intl. ed. 84--91)
Anonymous Word Ladders and a Tower of Babel Lead
to Computational Heights Defying Assault 96
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 104--107
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 108--111
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--115
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Two Steps
Forward ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
T. M. B. Chemical Warfare . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--22
John Horgan Big-Bang Bashers . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Robert Kunzig All is Flux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
J. H. Currents in Plastics . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
J. H. Plain Sense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Gregory Greenwell Butterfly Catcher . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
J. H. High-Tech Horses . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--31
Elizabeth Collins Potato Eaters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
J. H. Beeboppers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
C. Kumar N. Patel and
Nicolaas Bloembergen Strategic Defense and Directed-Energy
Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
E. C. Never a Right Age . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
John Benditt Bespoke Bactericide . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Karen Wright Radical Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Tim Beardsley Electric Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--37
C. Kumar and
N. Patel and
Nicolaas Bloembergen Strategic Defense and Directed-Energy
Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--45
Alan Dressler The Large-Scale Streaming of Galaxies 46--54
Harold Varmus Reverse Transcription . . . . . . . . . 56--64
James L. Dye Electrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--75 (Intl. ed. 58--67)
Spencer C. H. Barrett Mimicry in Plants . . . . . . . . . . . 76--83
Mark Horton The Swahili Corridor . . . . . . . . . . 86--93 (Intl. ed. 76)
George A. Miller and
Patricia M. Gildea How Children Learn Words . . . . . . . . 94--99
Richard E. Balzhiser and
Kurt E. Yeager Coal-Fired Power Plants for the Future 100--107 (Intl. ed. 92--99)
Anonymous Sticky Threadlike Substances That Tend
to Draw Themselves out into Bead Arrays 100
Anonymous Diverse Personalities Search for Social
Equilibrium at a Computer Party . . . . 104
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 108--111
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 112--115
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--119
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--13
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--24
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Back with a
Vengeance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
Tim Beardsley Animal Passions . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
J. H. Hearts of Darkness . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
T. M. B. Getting Warmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Laurie Burnham Threat to the Spotted Owl . . . . . . . 34--36
T. M. B. Sonic Punch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Elizabeth Collins Eyeing Myopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
T. M. B. Skin of Frog ... . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--40
T. M. B. Torn Genes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--42
E. C. Dysaphrodisiacs . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--44
Karen Wright The Bad Seed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
T. M. B. Back to the Future . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Gregory Greenwell It's a Dirty Job . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--48
John Horgan But is it Art? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--52
J. D. Meindl Chips for advanced computing . . . . . . 54--62
Abraham Peled The Next Computer Revolution . . . . . . 56--64 (Intl. ed. 35--42) (Intl. ed. 34)
D. Gelernter Programming for advanced computing . . . 65--71
Geoffrey C. Fox and
Paul C. Messina Advanced Computer Architectures . . . . 66--74 (Intl. ed. 45--52) (Intl. ed. 44)
James D. Meindl Chips for Advanced Computing . . . . . . 78--84, 86, 88 (Intl. ed. 54)
David Gelernter Programming for Advanced Computing . . . 90--96, 98 (Intl. ed. 64)
Mark H. Kryder Data-Storage Technologies for Advanced
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--125 (Intl. ed. 73--81) (Intl. ed. 72)
James D. Foley Interfaces for Advanced Computing . . . 126--130, 132, 134--135 (Intl. ed. 83--90) (Intl. ed. 82)
Robert E. Kahn Networks for Advanced Computing . . . . 136--143 (Intl. ed. 128--135)
Piet Hut and
Gerald Jay Sussman Advanced Computing for Science . . . . . 144--148, 150--153 (Intl. ed. 137--144) (Intl. ed. 136)
G. D. Rennets and
E. H. Shortliffe Advanced computing for medicine . . . . 146--153
Glenn D. Rennels and
Edward H. Shortliffe Advanced Computing for Medicine . . . . 154--161 (Intl. ed. 146)
Albert M. Erisman and
Kenneth W. Neves Advanced Computing for Manufacturing
(aircraft industry) . . . . . . . . . . 162--169 (Intl. ed. 155--161) (Intl. ed. 154)
Anonymous Now There is Rubik's Magic, a New Puzzle
that Provides a Study in Permutation
Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Anonymous ``After Mad'': a Computer Game of
Nuclear Strategy That Ends in a
Prisoner's Dilemma . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 170--173
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 174--177
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--182
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--13
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--39
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Ozone Watch . . 18--18
John Horgan Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--22
J. H. Double-Beta Decay . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
J. H. DNA Unveiled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
J. H. Goethe v. Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
J. H. Pluto's Poles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Elizabeth Collins Unadvertised Receptivity . . . . . . . . 24--26
T. M. B. Hope for Blighted Bays . . . . . . . . . 26--30
E. C. Stressed Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
T. M. B. Stimulating Recovery . . . . . . . . . . 30--34
T. M. B. One-Stop Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
J. H. Faces, Couches, Cats... . . . . . . . . 34--38
T. M. B. Aquatic Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
Leonard A. Cohen Diet and Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--48
J. Craig Wheeler and
Robert P. Harkness Helium-Rich Supernovas . . . . . . . . . 50--58
Andrew W. Murray and
Jack W. Szostak Artificial Chromosomes . . . . . . . . . 62--68
Herman Winick Synchrotron Radiation . . . . . . . . . 88--99
Stephen J. O'Brien The Ancestry of the Giant Panda . . . . 102--107
Charles H. Bennett Demons, Engines and the Second Law . . . 108--116
Anonymous Fluid Interfaces, Including Fractal
Flows, Can be Studied in a Hele--Shaw
Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
John M. Howell Early Farming in Northwestern Europe . . 118--126
Anonymous Beauty and Profundity: The Mandelbrot
Set and a Flock of its Cousins Called
Julia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
David A. Greenberg Modeling Tidal Power . . . . . . . . . . 128--131
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 134--138
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 140--145
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations: Beauty and
profundity: the Mandelbrot set and a
flock of its cousins called Julia . . . 140--145
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--149
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: All Shook up 18--22
Tim Beardsley Computing Cornucopia . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
T. M. B. Scientific Philanthropy . . . . . . . . 22--26
Gregory Greenwell Force of a Different Color . . . . . . . 26--32
T. M. B. Vapor Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
T. M. B. Electronic Taskmasters . . . . . . . . . 32--37
T. M. B. A Mild Alternative? . . . . . . . . . . 37--40
J. H. Flocking Together . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
J. H. A Nervous Disposition . . . . . . . . . 40--44
Elizabeth Collins Smoking Gun? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--45
Karen Wright Physiology or Medicine . . . . . . . . . 45--46
J. H. Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
J. H. Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
James Brian Quinn and
Jordan J. Baruch and
Penny Cushman Paquette Technology in Services . . . . . . . . . 50--58
S. K. Runcorn The Moon's Ancient Magnetism . . . . . . 60--68
Mark S. Bretscher How Animal Cells Move . . . . . . . . . 72--90
Alexander Vilenkin Cosmic Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--102
Anonymous How to Capture on Film the Faint Glow
Emitted When Sticky Tape is Peeled off a
Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Anonymous Simple Special Effects Illustrate the
Art of Converting Algorithms into
Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
David W. Tank and
John J. Hopfield Collective Computation in Neuron-Like
Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--114 (Intl. ed. 62--70)
David Crews Courtship in Unisexual Lizards: a Model
for Brain Evolution . . . . . . . . . . 116--121
Terry A. Michalske and
Bruce C. Bunker The Fracturing of Glass . . . . . . . . 122--129 (Intl. ed. 78--85)
Walter Brownlee H.M.S. Warrior . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--136
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 138--141
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 142--147
Philip and
Phylis Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--157
Anonymous Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Twice Burned 16--16
J. H. The Crash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
June Kinoshita ``Neural Darwinism'' . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
J. H. Phasing In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
J. H. Cosmic Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Tim Beardsley Optimalists Under Fire . . . . . . . . . 21--22
J. H. The Nautilus and the Bomb . . . . . . . 22--23
Ricki Rusting The 57th Variety . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Laurie Burnham Alzheimer's Proteins . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
T. M. B. Heavy Metal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
T. M. B. Flat Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Richard S. Stolarski The Antarctic Ozone Hole . . . . . . . . 30--36
John Ding-E Young and
Zanvil A. Cohn How Killer Cells Kill . . . . . . . . . 38--44
Abner Shimony The Reality of the Quantum World . . . . 46--53
Kenneth I. Kellermann and
A. Richard Thompson The Very-Long-Baseline Array . . . . . . 54--63
Michael H. Horn and
Robin N. Gibson Intertidal Fishes . . . . . . . . . . . 64--70
Gunter K. Muecke and
Peter Möller The Not-So-Rare Earths . . . . . . . . . 72--77
Margaret S. Livingstone Art, Illusion and the Visual System . . 78--85
Anonymous What Explains Subjective-Contour
Illusions, Those Bright Spots That are
not Really There? . . . . . . . . . . . 84
John W. Coltman The Transformer . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--95
Anonymous Nanotechnology: Wherein Molecular
Computers Control Tiny Circulatory
Submarines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 96--99
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 100--103
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--107
Anonymous Annual Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--111
Anonymous Biblography: Bibliography . . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Science at the
Summit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
John Horgan Paleolithic Compassion . . . . . . . . . 17--20
T. M. B. As California Goes ... . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Gregory Greenwell A Light Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
J. H. Cosmic Mirage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Gordon Graff In from the Cold . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Tim Appenzeller Darwin in Miniature . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Laurie Burnham Off and Running . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
J. H. Fractal Shorthand . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Elizabeth Collins Wave Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--31
Robert K. Adair A Flaw in a Universal Mirror . . . . . . 30--36
John Benditt Ritual on Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
E. C. Exonerating Sodium . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
T. M. B. New Genes for Old . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
T. M. B. Supertests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Karen Wright Flying Blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--36
Ray White and
Jean-Marc Lalouel Chromosome Mapping with DNA Markers . . 40--48
Robert K. Adair A Flaw in a Universal Mirror . . . . . . 50--56
Anonymous The Feathery Wake of a Moving Boat is a
Complex Interference Pattern . . . . . . 80
David I. Gottlieb GABAergic Neurons . . . . . . . . . . . 82--89
Anonymous A Blind Watchmaker Surveys the Land of
Biomorphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
James F. Kasting and
Owen B. Toon and
James B. Pollack How Climate Evolved on the Terrestrial
Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--97
Steven N. Austad The Adaptable Opossum . . . . . . . . . 98--104
Richard B. Kaner and
Alan G. MacDiarmid Plastics that Conduct Electricity . . . 106--111 (Intl. ed. 60--65)
Jonathan M. Borwein and
Peter B. Borwein Ramanujan and Pi . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--117
Colin McEvedy The Bubonic Plague . . . . . . . . . . . 118--123
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 124--127
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 128--131
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--135
Anonymous Biblography: Bibliography . . . . . . . 136--136
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Poisoning the
Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
John Benditt Cousins or Brothers? . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
J. H. Civil Defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Elizabeth Collins Where's Rover? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--24
Tim Beardsley Sex Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Steven D. Mirsky Solar Polar Bears . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Tom Stefanik The Nonacoustic Detection of Submarines 25
J. H. Shedding Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Gregory Greenwell Freezing Ions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Tim Appenzeller Seeing Red . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Ari W. Epstein Decoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
T. M. B. Dial-A-Doc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Laurie Burnham Setting the Pace . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--37
J. H. Optrodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
John Horgan Star-Crossed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--39
Tom Stefanick The Nonacoustic Detection of Submarines 41--47
Terry Goldman and
Richard J. Hughes and
Michael Martin Nieto Gravity and Antimatter . . . . . . . . . 48--56
Richard A. Lerner and
Alfonso Tramontano Catalytic Antibodies . . . . . . . . . . 58--70
Lawrence K. Shapiro and
Howard I. Shapiro Construction Cranes . . . . . . . . . . 72--79
James D. Murray How the Leopard Gets its Spots . . . . . 80--87
Rose E. Frisch Fatness and Fertility . . . . . . . . . 88--95
Anonymous Why Sidespin Helps the Bowler to Keep
Scoring Strikes . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Robert T. Bate The Quantum-Effect Device: Tomorrow's
Transistor? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--100
Anonymous A Home Computer Laboratory in Which
Balls Become Gases, Liquids and Critical
Masses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Anna Marguerite McCann The Roman Port of Cosa . . . . . . . . . 102--109
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 110--113
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 114--117
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--121
Anonymous Biblography: Bibliography . . . . . . . 122--123
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Intelligence
Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Tim Beardsley Pie in the Sky? . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
J. H. Cosmic Forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--24
Tim Appenzeller Deeply Moved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Ari W. Epstein Paste and Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Karen Wright New Kinship for Old Cells . . . . . . . 26--28
T. M. B. Creatures of the Quarry . . . . . . . . 28--30
John Benditt The Oldest Glory . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
J. H. Welfare's Worth . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
T. M. B. Damage Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--36
June Kinoshita Virtue in Viruses . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
T. M. B. Now there are Three . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
J. H. Self-Destruct . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Tim Beardsley Star-Struck? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--40
Pierre Boulez and
Andrew Gerzso Computers in Music . . . . . . . . . . . 44--50 (Intl. ed. 26--32)
Irun R. Cohen The Self, the World and Autoimmunity . . 52--60
Richard H. Price and
Kip S. Thorne The Membrane Paradigm for Black Holes 69--77
Arthur H. Rosenfeld and
David Hafemeister Energy-Efficient Buildings . . . . . . . 78--85
Phyllis B. Moses and
Nam-Hai Chua Light Switches for Plant Genes . . . . . 88--93
Anonymous How to Map Electrically Charged Patches
with Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme 92
Franck Laloë and
Jack H. Freed The Effects of Spin in Gases . . . . . . 94--101
Anonymous An Ancient Rope-and-Pulley Computer is
Unearthed in the Jungle of Apraphul . . 96
Bernd Würsig The Behavior of Baleen Whales . . . . . 102--107
Howard M. Lenhoff and
Sylvia G. Lenhoff Trembley's Polyps . . . . . . . . . . . 108--113
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 114--117
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 118--121
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--126
Anonymous Biblography: Bibliography . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous The Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: The Violent
Yanomamö . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
Tim Beardsley Star Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--22
T. M. B. Embarrassment of Riches . . . . . . . . 22--22
J. H. Shear Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
J. H. Dark Solitons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
T. M. B. Ultraviolet Verdict . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
T. M. B. Built for Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
Elizabeth Corcoran Have you Heard DAT? . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
E. C. ISDN: Betting Billions . . . . . . . . . 30--32
John Benditt Patented Remedy . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
J. H. Fetal Fossils . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
June Kinoshita Malaria Vaccines . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
Karen Wright Cause and Affect . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Gregory Greenwell Heartening News . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--40
Anthony V. Nero, Jr. Controlling Indoor Air Pollution . . . . 42--48 (Intl. ed. 24)
Richart E. Slusher and
Bernard Yurke Squeezed Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--56
Lloyd J. Old Tumor Necrosis Factor . . . . . . . . . 59--75
Kenneth A. Hoffman Ancient Magnetic Reversals: Clues to the
Geodynamo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--83
Mervyn Griffiths The Platypus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--91
Anonymous Icicles Ensheathe a Number of Puzzles:
Just How Does the Water Freeze? . . . . 90
Jochen Fricke Aerogels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--97 (Intl. ed. 68)
Anonymous The Invisible Professor Holds a
Chalk-Talk Session on the Display
Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Francis P. McManamon and
James W. Bradley The Indian Neck Ossuary . . . . . . . . 98--104
Larry Abbott The Mystery of the Cosmological Constant 106--113
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 114--117
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 118--121
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--125
Anonymous Biblography: Bibliography . . . . . . . 126--127
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Earning its
Wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
John Horgan Yucca Mountain, Nevada . . . . . . . . . 18--18
J. H. ``Slickums'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
T. M. B. Secret Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--24
T. M. B. Ice Storm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
June Kinoshita Roll Over, Wolfgang? . . . . . . . . . . 25--28
Ralph. U. S. Landau Economic Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Gregory Greenwell Quantum Holonomy . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
John Benditt Earlier Americans . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Tim Appenzeller Compound Compound Eye . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Laurie Burnham Love on the Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
T. M. B. For the Birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Anonymous Vector Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
T. M. B. Bethesda Brain Drain . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Karen Wright Nature, Nurture and Death . . . . . . . 34--38
J. H. Science and the Citizen: Rx Art . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Richard P. Feynman 1918--1988 . . . . . 38--42
Ralph Landau U.S. Economic Growth . . . . . . . . . . 44--52
David N. Schramm and
Gary Steigman Particle Accelerators Test Cosmological
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Joan Argetsinger Steitz ``Snurps'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
David N. Schramm and
Gary Steigman Particle Accelerators Test Cosmological
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--72
Robert M. Hazen Perovskites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--80
James A. Shapiro Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms . . 82--89
Arnold L. Gordon and
Josefino C. Comiso Polynyas in the Southern Ocean . . . . . 90--97
Anonymous Does Convection or the Bernoulli
Principle Make the Shower Curtain
Flutter Inward? . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Charles M. Lent and
Michael H. Dickinson The Neurobiology of Feeding in Leeches 98--103
Anonymous Imagination Meets Geometry in the
Crystalline Realm of Latticeworks . . . 100
Francis Van Noten and
Jan Raymaekers Early Iron Smelting in Central Africa 104--111
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Making Mice . . . 112--114
E. C. TRON Takes Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
E. C. Cold Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
E. C. Bottled Water? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 116--119
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 120--123
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--128
A. K. Dewdney The hodgepodge machine makes waves . . . 104
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Snakebit . . . 31--32
Tim Beardsley Getting Warmer? . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
T. M. B. Ill-starred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
June Kinoshita Sons of STM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--35
J. H. Rotor Rooters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--36
J. H. Superduds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
J. H. Upfreezing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
J. H. Odd Couple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Karen Wright Language of Translation . . . . . . . . 37--40
John Benditt Genetic Skeleton . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
J. H. Skin Saver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
T. M. B. Benevolent Bradykinins . . . . . . . . . 41--41
Tim Beardsley In Vino Scientia . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--42
J. Clark Archer and
Fred M. Shelley and
Peter J. Taylor and
Ellen R. White The Geography of U.S. Presidential
Elections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--51
Edwin L. Turner Gravitational Lenses . . . . . . . . . . 54--60
David W. Golde and
Judith C. Gasson Hormones that Stimulate the Growth of
Blood Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--70
R. Damian Nance and
Thomas R. Worsley and
Judith B. Moody The Supercontinent Cycle . . . . . . . . 72--79
Gregory J. Chaitin Randomness in Arithmetic . . . . . . . . 80--85 (Intl. ed. 52--57)
Donald M. Trotter, Jr. Capacitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--88, 90a-90b (Intl. ed. 58--63)
Anonymous Shadows Cast on the Bottom of a Pool are
not like Other Shadows. Why? . . . . . . 86
Anonymous How to Pan for Primes in Numerical
Gravel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Jane F. Koretz and
George H. Handelman How the Human Eye Focuses . . . . . . . 92--99
Stephen H. Lekson and
Thomas C. Windes and
John R. Stein and
W. James Judge The Chaco Canyon Community . . . . . . . 100--109
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Groupware . . . . 110--112
Tim Beardsley Messages from on High . . . . . . . . . 112--113
E. C. Keeping Cool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
E. C. Laughing Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 116--119
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 120--123
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--127
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: B-2 or Not B-2 13--14
John Benditt Report from Stockholm . . . . . . . . . 14--15
John Horgan K.A.L. 007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
Ari W. Epstein What Price Cost Controls? . . . . . . . 16--16
T. M. B. Complexity Counted? . . . . . . . . . . 16--20
T. M. B. Going for Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
T. M. B. A Match Made in Heaven . . . . . . . . . 21--24
T. M. B. Truth or Consequences? . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Ricki Rusting A Better Crystal Ball . . . . . . . . . 24--26
J. H. So Long, Lefty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Tony Rothman Son of Rubber . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
J. H. Robots Rampant . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Volker A. Mohnen The Challenge of Acid Rain . . . . . . . 30--38 (Intl. ed. 14--22)
Miroslav Radman and
Robert Wagner The High Fidelity of DNA Duplication . . 40--46
Thomas H. Jordan and
J. Bernard Minster Measuring Crustal Deformation in the
American West . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
David B. Cline Beyond truth and beauty: a fourth family
of particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--67
Richard L. Edelson Light-Activated Drugs . . . . . . . . . 68--75
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Perceiving Shape from Shading . . . . . 76--83
V. I. Ramachandran Perceiving Shape From Shading . . . . . 76--83
Anonymous Some Entertaining Lessons in Optics That
May Make Air Travel Easier to Endure . . 82
Gerald K. Skinner X-Ray Imaging with Coded Masks . . . . . 84--89
Anonymous The Hodgepodge Machine Makes Waves . . . 86
Allan R. Mackintosh Dr. Atanasoff's Computer . . . . . . . . 90--96 (Intl. ed. 72--78)
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Picture
Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
E. C. Testing Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
E. C. Sunny Prospects? . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
E. C. Entrepreneurial Spirit . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 100--103
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 104--107
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--112
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: ``Star Wars of
the Seas'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--18
Tim Beardsley Winds of Change . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
T. M. B. Now you See it ... . . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
J. H. The Solar Inconstant . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
J. H. Microwave Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Ari W. Epstein Woody Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Laurie Burnham The Hard Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Karen Wright Thrilled to the Marrow . . . . . . . . . 28--29
T. M. B. Safer Skies? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
Tony Rothman Phase Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Russell Ruthen Pitching Electrons . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
J. H. All Fall Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Tim Beardsley Clouded Crystal Ball . . . . . . . . . . 32--35
Robert A. Weinberg Finding the Antioncogene . . . . . . . . 34
Frank N. von Hippel and
Barbara G. Levi and
Theodore A. Postol and
William H. Daugherty Civilian Casualties from Counterforce
Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--42
Robert A. Weinberg Finding the Anti-Oncogene . . . . . . . 44--51
Vladilen S. Letokhov Detecting Individual Atoms and Molecules
with Lasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--59
M. Glickstein The discovery of the visual cortex . . . 84--91
Lelio Orci and
Jean-Dominique Vassalli and
Alain Perrelet The Insulin Factory . . . . . . . . . . 85--94 (Intl. ed. 50)
Anonymous Shock-Front Phenomena and Other Oddities
to Entertain a Bored Airline Passenger 96
Hans Balsiger and
Hugo Fechtig and
Johannes Geiss A Close Look at Halley's Comet . . . . . 96--103 (Intl. ed. 62--69)
Anonymous Old and New Three-Dimensional Mazes . . 100
Daniel Heyler and
Cecile M. Poplin The Fossils of Montceau-les-Mines . . . 104--110 (Intl. ed. 70)
Herbert Herman Plasma-Sprayed Coatings . . . . . . . . 112--117 (Intl. ed. 78--83)
Mitchell Glickstein The Discovery of the Visual Cortex . . . 118--127 (Intl. ed. 84)
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Patent Medicine 128--130
E. C. Making Manufacturers . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
E. C. Change Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
E. C. Silicon Minstrels . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 132--135
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 136--139
Anonymous Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 136
Lord Zuckerman Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--144
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: AIDS and the
Election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
John Horgan Test-Ban Countdown . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
T. M. B. Starshower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
June Kinoshita Weighty Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Tony Rothman God Takes a Nap . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Ricki Rusting Pacific Sea-saw . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--25
J. K. More Setbacks at SLAC . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Russell Ruthen Planetary Consommé . . . . . . . . . . . 25--27
Ari W. Epstein Postprandial Warmth . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Karen Wright Yeast Meets Est(rogen) . . . . . . . . . 28--32
T. M. B. Maternal Dysinheritance . . . . . . . . 32--34
J. H. Making Bones Better . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
John Benditt Bypass Blues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--37
John Horgan The Bionic Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--38
Robert C. Gallo and
Luc Montagnier AIDS in 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--48 (Intl. ed. 24)
William A. Haseltine and
Flossie Wong-Staal The Molecular Biology of the AIDS Virus 52--62 (Intl. ed. 34)
Max Essex and
Phyllis J. Kanki The Origins of the AIDS Virus . . . . . 64--71 (Intl. ed. 44)
William L. Heyward and
James W. Curran The Epidemiology of AIDS in the U.S. . . 72--81 (Intl. ed. 52)
Jonathan M. Mann and
James Chin and
Peter Piot and
Thomas Quinn The International Epidemiology of AIDS 82--89 (Intl. ed. 60)
Robert R. Redfield and
Donald S. Burke HIV Infection: The Clinical Picture . . 90--98 (Intl. ed. 70)
Jonathan N. Weber and
Robin A. Weiss HIV Infection: The Cellular Picture . . 100--109 (Intl. ed. 80)
Robert Yarchoan and
Hiroaki Mitsuya and
Samuel Broder AIDS Therapies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--119 (Intl. ed. 88)
Anonymous Drop Two Stacked Balls from Waist
Height: The Top Ball May Bounce up to
the Ceiling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous On Making and Breaking Codes: Part I . . 120
Thomas J. Matthews and
Dani P. Bolognesi AIDS Vaccines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--127 (Intl. ed. 98)
Harvey V. Fineberg The Social Dimensions of AIDS . . . . . 128--134
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Long March to
Approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--138
E. C. Mega Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--138
E. C. Signing Off? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
E. C. Smart Apples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 140--143
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 144--147
William A. Blattner Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--151
Lewis Thomas Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--152
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Ignorance in
Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Tim Beardsley Reactors Redux . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
J. H. The Shroud of Turin . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
J. H. Why Warfare? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
J. H. Ice House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Tony Rothman Plus Ça Change \ldots . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
J. H. Wobbly Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Russell Ruthen Holochrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
Tim Appenzeller Living with your Self . . . . . . . . . 30--34
T. M. B. Masters of Mutation . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Laurie Burnham Acquired Taste . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
Ricki Rusting Starvaholics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
John Benditt All in the Family . . . . . . . . . . . 36--40
Tim Beardsley Developmental Dialectics . . . . . . . . 40--41
James P. Comer Educating Poor Minority Children . . . . 42--48 (Intl. ed. 24)
E. R. Williams The electrification of thunderstorms . . 48--52, 61--65
Michiel van der Klis Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Celestial
X-Ray Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--58
Klis van der Michiel Quasi-periodic Oscillations in Celestial
X-Ray Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Michael Feldman and
Lea Eisenbach What Makes a Tumor Cell Metastatic? . . 60--68 (Intl. ed. 40)
R. J. Donnelly Superfluid turbulence . . . . . . . . . 66--74
M. G. Drexhage and
C. T. Moynihan Infrared optical fibers . . . . . . . . 76--81
Earle R. Williams The Electrification of Thunderstorms . . 88--99
Russell J. Donnelly Superfluid Turbulence . . . . . . . . . 100--108
Martin G. Drexhage and
Cornelius T. Moynihan Infrared Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . 110--116
C. Owen Lovejoy Evolution of Human Walking . . . . . . . 118--125
Anthony Robbins and
Phyllis Freeman Obstacles to Developing Vaccines for the
Third World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--133
June Kinoshita Science and Business: Neural Networks at
Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--135
Tim Beardsley Disappearing Act . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Elizabeth Corcoran Gene Therapy in Gestation . . . . . . . 135--136
Karen Wright Body Shop? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--137
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 138--141
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 142--145
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--149
Robert A. Weinberg Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--150
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Karen Wright Science and the Citizen: Fertility Rites 14--14
John Horgan After Discovery \ldots . . . . . . . . . 14--18
Tim Beardsley Radon Retried . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Tony Rothman The Cygnet Turns Phoenix . . . . . . . . 19--20
J. H. Theory-Resistant . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Russell Ruthen Factoring Googols . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Laurie Burnham High Rate of Return . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
T. M. B. Electronic Ark . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--26
T. M. B. Unscientific Americans . . . . . . . . . 26--27
M. Berry The geometric phase . . . . . . . . . . 26--32
T. M. B. Embryonic Questions . . . . . . . . . . 27--30
T. M. B. Memories of Mother . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
T. M. B. Ghost in the Machine . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
J. H. Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--33
J. H. Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
J. H. Physiology or Medicine . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Philip R. O'Leary and
Patrick W. Walsh and
Robert K. Ham Managing Solid Waste . . . . . . . . . . 36--42
Michael Berry The Geometric Phase . . . . . . . . . . 46--52
Chiye Aoki and
Philip Diekevitz Plasticity in Brain Development . . . . 56--64
William B. Krantz and
Kevin J. Gleason and
Nelson Caine Science in Pictures: Patterned Ground 68--76
Paul M. Wassarman Fertilization in Mammals . . . . . . . . 78--84
Dennis L. Matthews and
Mordecai D. Rosen Soft-X-Ray Lasers . . . . . . . . . . . 86--91 (Intl. ed. 60--65)
Harvey B. Lillywhite Snakes, Blood Circulation and Gravity 92--98
Charles R. Ortloff Canal Builders of Pre-Inca Peru . . . . 100--107
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Disequilibrium . . 108--110
E. C. One for the Road . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
E. C. A Different Engine? . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 112--115
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 116--119
Philip and
Phylis Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--127
Anonymous Annual Index, 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . 128--131
Norman Myers Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: New Deal? . . . 12--16
T. M. B. Back to the Bases . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
John Horgan Lone-Star Science . . . . . . . . . . . 17--20
J. H. Greenhouse America . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Tony Rothman Time after Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
J. H. Hive Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Paul Wallich Hostile Takeovers . . . . . . . . . . . 22--26
T. M. B. Preemptive Strike . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
June Kinoshita Memory in a Neuron . . . . . . . . . . . 28--32
Ricki Rusting Schizophrenic Results . . . . . . . . . 32--32
C. Frohlich Deep earthquakes . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--39
Jerome B. Wiesner On Science Advice to the President . . . 34--39 (Intl. ed. 18)
Mark Ptashne How Gene Activators Work . . . . . . . . 40--47 (Intl. ed. 24)
Cliff Frohlich Deep Earthquakes . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55 (Intl. ed. 32)
Julio M. Ottino The Mixing of Fluids . . . . . . . . . . 56--57, 60--67 (Intl. ed. 40--49)
Richard J. Wurtman and
Judith J. Wurtman Carbohydrates and Depression . . . . . . 68--75
Alan Walker and
Mark Teaford The Hunt for Proconsul . . . . . . . . . 76--82
Marshall W. Bern and
Ronald L. Graham The Shortest-Network Problem . . . . . . 84--89 (Intl. ed. 66--71)
Anonymous The Colors Seen in the Sky Offer Lessons
in Optical Scattering . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous People Puzzles: Theme and Variations . . 88
L. Pearce Williams André-Marie Amp\`ere . . . . . . . . . . 90--97
Tim Beardsley Science and Business: Merchants of Peace 98--100
John P. Rennie Power to Burn . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Paul Wallich Not in the Cards? . . . . . . . . . . . 101--101
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 102--105
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 106--109
A. W. Crompton and
Stephen M. Gatesy Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--113
John Shattuck and
Muriel M. Spence Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Econo-SDI . . . 14--14
Tim Beardsley Stable Orbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
T. M. B. Future Imperfect . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Tony Rothman In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Tim Appenzeller Hidden Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
J. H. Blame it on the Moon . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Russell Ruthen First Impressions . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Peter M. Banks and
Sally K. Ride Soviets in Space . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
John Benditt POU! Goes the Homeobox . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Karen Wright A Breed Apart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
T. M. B. Exercising Choice . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
T. M. B. Labeled Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
John Horgan Fusion's Future . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--28
Peter M. Banks and
Sally K. Ride Soviets in Space . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--40
Jeremy Nathans The Genes for Color Vision . . . . . . . 42--49
John A. Whitehead Giant Ocean Cataracts . . . . . . . . . 50--57
Alan M. Wolsky and
Robert F. Giese and
Edward J. Daniels The New Superconductors: Prospects for
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--69
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Supercomputing . . 70--72
E. C. Sharpening the Edge . . . . . . . . . . 72--73
E. C. A Tiny Mouse came Forth . . . . . . . . 73--73
Fernando Nottebohm From Bird Song to Neurogenesis . . . . . 74--79
Kenneth S. Suslick The Chemical Effects of Ultrasound . . . 80--86
Anonymous In an Emergency Stop, Should a Car's
Wheels be Locked or Should the Braking
be Controlled? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Christy G. Turner II Teeth and Prehistory in Asia . . . . . . 88--96
Anonymous A Tour of the Mandelbrot Set aboard the
Mandelbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Keith S. Reid-Green The History of Census Tabulation . . . . 98--103
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 104--107
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 108--111
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations: a tour of the
Mandelbrot set aboard the Mandelbus . . 108--111
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--115
William T. Golden Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Clearing the
Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
Russell Ruthen To our Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Anonymous A Gothic Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Cosmic News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Laurie Burnham The Summer of '88 . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
J. H. A Snowball's Chance . . . . . . . . . . 21--24
Paul Wallich Beyond Understanding? . . . . . . . . . 24--24
J. H. Time Bomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Tim Appenzeller Thinking in Circles . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Norbert Kartner and
Victor Ling Multidrug Resistance in Cancer . . . . . 26
Karen Wright The Blood-Brain Barrier . . . . . . . . 27--30
John Benditt The Syphilized World . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Ricki Rusting Tat's Surprising . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
J. H. Lukewarm Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
John M. Logsdon and
Ray A. Williamson U.S. Access to Space . . . . . . . . . . 34--40
Alexander McPherson Macromolecular Crystals . . . . . . . . 42--49
Norbert Kartner and
Victor Ling Multidrug Resistance in Cancer . . . . . 44--51
John M. Dawson Plasma Particle Accelerators . . . . . . 54--61
Alexander McPherson Science in Pictures: Macromolecular
Crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--69
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Competitive
Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--72
E. C. Decaying Orbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--73
E. C. An Economic Animal . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Robert A. Berner and
Antonio C. Lasaga Modeling the Geochemical Carbon Cycle 74--81
Judith L. Rapoport The Biology of Obsessions and
Compulsions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--89
Anonymous How to Get the Playground Swing Going: a
First Lesson in the Mechanics of
Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Howard G. Wilson and
Paul B. MacCready and
Chester R. Kyle Lessons of Sunraycer . . . . . . . . . . 90--97
Anonymous Of Worms, Viruses and Core War . . . . . 90
George F. W. Hauck The Roman Aqueduct of N\^\imes . . . . . 98--98
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 106--109
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 110--113
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--119
Peter Huber Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Paul Wallich Science and the Citizen: Aids Counts . . 17--18
John Horgan Flash Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Tim Beardsley Talking Tall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
J. H. Points of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
J. H. Irish Mist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
J. H. It's a Pulsar! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
T. M. B. Unsuperconductivity . . . . . . . . . . 22--26
T. M. B. Arctic Angst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
T. M. B. Dirty Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
J. H. Deep Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Russell Ruthen Beating the Spread . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Karen Wright Virus de Résistance . . . . . . . . . . . 29--32
Tim Appenzeller A Sparrow's Fall . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
T. M. B. Computerized Canaries . . . . . . . . . 34--34
T. M. B. Multiple Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Richard A. Houghton and
George M. Woodwell Global Climatic Change . . . . . . . . . 36--44
Jeffrey Ross The Turnover of Messenger RNA . . . . . 48--55
Yoseph Imry and
Richard A. Webb Quantum Interference and the
Aharonov--Bohm Effect . . . . . . . . . 56--62
Harold K. Kimelberg and
Michael D. Norenberg Astrocytes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--76
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: An Alliance for
Progress? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79
E. C. The Burden of Proof . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
E. C. On Gossamer Wings . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Anonymous How to Build a Planck-Mass Accelerator
in your Solar System . . . . . . . . . . 82
Henry P. Freund and
Robert K. Parker Free-Electron Lasers . . . . . . . . . . 84--89
Anonymous A Matter Fabricator Provides Matter for
Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Deane Renouf Sensory Function in the Harbor Seal . . 90--95
John F. Coates The Trireme Sails Again . . . . . . . . 96--103
Emmy E. Werner Children of the Garden Island . . . . . 106--111
Antoni Akahito The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 112--115
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 116--119
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--125
Arnold S. Relman Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Aging Comes of
Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--21
John Benditt Cold Water on the Fire . . . . . . . . . 21--22
T. M. B. Case Proved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
John Horgan Pinning Down Clouds . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
J. H. Gamma-Ray Bursts . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Tony Rothman Ambidextrous Universe . . . . . . . . . 26--26
T. M. B. Energy Re-Energized . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
T. M. B. Fusion Breakthrough? . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Paul Wallich Quantum Cryptography . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Karen Wright Playing Demigod . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
June Kinoshita Quantum Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
Tim Appenzeller Balloon Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--35
T. M. B. Risky Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--36
John Horgan Do Bees Think? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38
Syun-Ichi Akasofu The Dynamic Aurora . . . . . . . . . . . 54--55, 58--63
Richard M. Cyert and
David C. Mowery Technology, Employment and U.S.
Competitiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--62
Peter Armbruster and
Gottfried Münzenberg Creating Superheavy Elements . . . . . . 66--72
Gerald M. Edelman Topobiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--88
Syun-Ichi Akasofu The Dynamic Aurora . . . . . . . . . . . 90--97
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Technology
Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--100
E. C. Housing Developments . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Anonymous How to Stop Worrying about Vibration and
Make Holograms Viewable in White Light 100
E. C. A Truffiing Matter . . . . . . . . . . . 101--101
Paul A. Colinvaux The Past and Future Amazon . . . . . . . 102--108
Anonymous Simulated Evolution: Wherein Bugs Learn
to Hunt Bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Eugenia M. del Piño Marsupial Frogs . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--118
Abraham Katzir Optical Fibers in Medicine . . . . . . . 120--125
David H. DeVorkin Henry Norris Russell . . . . . . . . . . 126--133
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 134--137
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 138--141
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--147
Simon Ramo Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Ivan's Eyes . . 19--22
Paul Wallich Taxing the Wages of Sin . . . . . . . . 22--22
Tim Beardsley Playing with Fire . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
T. M. B. Waiting Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
J. H. Nonlinear Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Barth David Schwartz Muddy Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--31
Russell Ruthen Halley's Birthplace . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
J. H. Disco-Bee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
John Benditt Grave Doubts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
June Kinoshita The Tails of Ubiquitin . . . . . . . . . 33--34
T. M. B. Molecular Monkeywrench . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Karen Wright One Hand Clapping . . . . . . . . . . . 35--37
Suzanne Berger and
Michael L. Dertouzos and
Richard K. Lester and
Robert M. Solow and
Lester C. Thurow Toward a New Industrial America . . . . 39--47
Ross S. Stein and
Robert S. Yeats Hidden Earthquakes . . . . . . . . . . . 48--57
Toni Bürgin and
Olivier Rieppel and
P. Martin Sander and
Karl Tschanz The Fossils of Monte San Giorgio . . . . 50
Robin Holliday A Different Kind of Inheritance . . . . 60--73
Toni Bürgin and
Olivier Rieppel and
P. Martin Sander and
Karl Tschanz Science in Pictures: The Fossils of
Monte San Giorgio . . . . . . . . . . . 74--81
John Horgan Science and Business: The Finance of
Fission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Tim Beardsley Mr. Clean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
Elizabeth Corcoran So Long, Silicon . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 84--85
Ronald N. Bracewell The Fourier Transform . . . . . . . . . 86--95
Anonymous The Mechanics of Rock Climbing, or
Surviving the Ultimate Physics Exam . . 92
Allan H. Sòrensen and
Erik Uggerhòj The Channeling of Electrons and
Positrons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--102
Anonymous A Potpourri of Programmed Prose and
Prosody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Stanley V. Margolis Authenticating Ancient Marble Sculpture 104--110
Wilfred Niels Arnold Absinthe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--117
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 118--121
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 122--125
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--130
Edward Rubenstein Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Earle R. Williams Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Science Gains a
Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
John Horgan Cosmic Collisions . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Tony Rothman Moscow Subversive Chic . . . . . . . . . 16--21
J. H. Stradivari's Secret (Redux) . . . . . . 21--22
Russell Ruthen Squaring the Circle . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
J. H. Jukeboxes for Scientists . . . . . . . . 24--25
John Benditt Molecular Archaeology . . . . . . . . . 25--26
T. M. B. Alien Influence . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
T. M. B. Ripe for a Change . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Daniel L. Alkon Memory Storage and Neural Systems . . . 26
Ricki Rusting Sweet Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
John Horgan Ethnography as Art . . . . . . . . . . . 28--31
Ashton B. Carter Testing Weapons in Space . . . . . . . . 33--40
Daniel L. Alkon Memory Storage and Neural Systems . . . 42--50
Daniel L. Stein Spin Glasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--59
Robert S. White and
Dan P. McKenzie Volcanism at Rifts . . . . . . . . . . . 62--71
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Show and Tell . . 72--74
E. C. Quality Conscious . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
E. C. A Connoisseur's SNIF . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Paul Wallich and
Elizabeth Corcoran The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 76--77
Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg The Gastrointestinal Tract in Growth and
Reproduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--83
Vladimir V. Vasyutin and
Artur A. Tishchenko Space Coloristics . . . . . . . . . . . 84--90
Anonymous What do Phonograph Records have in
Common with Windshield Wipers? . . . . . 88
Randall White Visual Thinking in the Ice Age . . . . . 92--99
Anonymous Catch of the Day: Biomorphs on Truchet
Tiles, Served with Popcorn and Snails 92
George T. Kerr Synthetic Zeolites . . . . . . . . . . . 100--109
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 110--113
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--117
Patricia Smith Churchland Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Tim Beardsley Big Brother, Ph.D. . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Tim Beardsley Voyager 2 Nears its Final Solar-System
Rendezvous before Heading for
Interstellar Space . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
June Kinoshita Misprints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Russell Ruthen Science and the Citizen: Surfing Photons 12--12
T. M. B. Morning after . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--16
Tony Rothman Pride and Prejudice . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Tim Appenzeller Coming Down in Sheets . . . . . . . . . 17--18
T. M. B. Successful Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
T. M. B. Bloodless Coup . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
T. M. B. Superantigens . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
T. M. B. Bring me Sunshine . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Paul Wallich Giant Flux Creep . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
John Benditt Fifth AIDS Conference . . . . . . . . . 21--23
Alan M. Goldberg and
John M. Frazier Alternatives to Animals in Toxicity
Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--30
Stan Woosley and
Tom Weaver The Great Supernova of 1987 . . . . . . 32--40
Michael B. A. Oldstone Viral Alteration of Cell Function . . . 42--48
David H. Funk The Mating of Tree Crickets . . . . . . 42
David H. Funk Science in Pictures: The Mating of Tree
Crickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--59
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: a Technological
Fix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--60
E. C. Don't Try Tiffany's . . . . . . . . . . 60--62
E. C. Futuristic Markets . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 63--64
David Gelernter The Metamorphosis of Information
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73 (Intl. ed. 54)
Erik Borg and
S. Allen Counter The Middle-Ear Muscles . . . . . . . . . 74--80
David Stuart and
Stephen D. Houston Maya Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--89
Anonymous How to Analyze the Shock Waves that
Sweep through Expressway Traffic . . . . 84
Anonymous A Cellular Universe of Debris, Droplets,
Defects and Demons . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Lawrence Badash The Age-of-the-Earth Debate . . . . . . 90--96
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 98--101
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 102--105
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--111
Robert J. Levine Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Greening the
Summit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
T. M. B. Intellectual Exports . . . . . . . . . . 17--20
T. M. B. Chilling Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
John Horgan Hot Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--24
J. H. The Impact Giveth \ldots . . . . . . . . 24--28
J. H. Brown Dwarfs Here... . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
John Rennie In the Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--32
John Benditt Short-Answer Question . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Ari W. Epstein Jeepers, Creepers . . . . . . . . . . . 33--34
T. M. B. No Slick Fix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
T. M. B. Different Strokes... . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
J. H. Beyond the Piano: Musicians Explore the
Acoustics of Kelp and Clay and Ostrich
Eggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Karen Wright Too much Pressure? . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38
Ricki Rusting Skin Deep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
John Horgan The Masai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--44
William C. Clark Managing Planet Earth . . . . . . . . . 46--54
J. W. Maurits la Rivi\`ere Threats to the World's Water . . . . . . 48
Thomas E. Graedel and
Paul J. Crutzen The Changing Atmosphere . . . . . . . . 58--68
Stephen H. Schneider The Changing Climate . . . . . . . . . . 70--78
J. W. Maurits la Rivi\`ere Threats to the World's Water . . . . . . 80--94
Robert A. Frosch and
Nicholas E. Gallopoulos Strategies for Manufacturing . . . . . . 94
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Dirty Business . . 98--101
E. C. Look but don't Touch . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
E. C. Surpassing the Buck . . . . . . . . . . 102--104
Paul Wallich and
Elizabeth Corcoran The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 104--105
Edward O. Wilson Threats to Biodiversity . . . . . . . . 108--116
Nathan Keyfitz The Growing Human Population . . . . . . 118--126
Anonymous A Drop of Water Becomes a Gateway into
the World of Catastrophe Optics . . . . 120D
Anonymous Two-Dimensional Turing Machines and
Turmites Make Tracks on a Plane . . . . 124
Pierre R. Crosson and
Norman J. Rosenberg Strategies for Agriculture . . . . . . . 128--135
John H. Gibbons and
Peter D. Blair and
Holly L. Gwin Strategies for Energy Use . . . . . . . 136--143 (Intl. ed. 86--93)
Robert A. Frosch and
Nicholas E. Gallopoulos Strategies for Manufacturing . . . . . . 144--152
Jim MacNeill Strategies for Sustainable Economic
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--165
William D. Ruckelshaus Toward a Sustainable World . . . . . . . 166--175
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 176--179
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 180--183
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--189
Gro Harlem Brundtland Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--190
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Land-Locked . . 17--20
Tim Beardsley Batteries not Included . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Paul Wallich Who's Minding the Store? . . . . . . . . 20--22
T. M. B. Cosmic Quarrel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--26
Russell Ruthen Out of its Field . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
T. M. B. Low-Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
J. H. Heavy-Ion Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
John Rennie Spacecraft on a String . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Karen Wright Diluvian Tremens . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
T. M. B. First Impressions . . . . . . . . . . . 33--34
J. H. Trans-Kingdom Sex . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
J. H. Sudden Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--36
J. H. Status Symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Tim Beardsley Glass Menageries . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--39
Robert B. Reich The Quiet Path to Technological
Preeminence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--47
J. Richard McIntosh and
Kent L. McDonald The Mitotic Spindle . . . . . . . . . . 48--56
John R. Rees The Stanford Linear Collider . . . . . . 58--65
Howard Rasmussen The Cycling of Calcium as an
Intracellular Messenger . . . . . . . . 66--73
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Light Talk . . . . 74--77
E. C. Homebody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78
E. C. Good Intentions . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 79--81
Reginald E. Newell and
Henry G. Reichle, Jr. and
Wolfgang Seiler Carbon Monoxide and the Burning Earth 82--88
Colin Renfrew The Origins of Indoeuropean Languages 82
Spencer C. H. Barrett Waterweed Invasions . . . . . . . . . . 90--97
Anonymous How to Build a Hele--Shaw Cell and Watch
Bubbles Playing Tag in a Viscous Fluid 92
Anonymous A Tinkertoy Computer that Plays
Tic-Tac-Toe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
H. Kumar Wickramasinghe Scanned-Probe Microscopes . . . . . . . 98--105
Colin Renfrew The Origins of Indo-European Languages 106--114 (Intl. ed. 82)
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 116--119
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 120--123
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--127
P. Roy Vagelos Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Not so Hot . . 17--18
T. M. B. Ningún Nombre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Paul Wallich Wires that Think . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
John Rennie Hungry to Evolve? . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
T. M. B. Economies of Scale . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
T. M. B. Sweet and Sour . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
J. H. Siberian Snake . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Philip Ross and
Russell Ruthen Hard-Pressed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Tim Appenzeller Just a Veneer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
J. H. Stillborn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
T. M. B. Winning Candidate . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Karen Wright Myocardial Infraction? . . . . . . . . . 30--30
John Horgan Quantum Consciousness . . . . . . . . . 30--33
William H. Romme and
Don G. Despain The Yellowstone Fires . . . . . . . . . 36--46
Michael K. Moe and
Simon Peter Rosen Double-Beta Decay . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
Howard M. Grey and
Alessandro Sette and
Sòren Buus How T Cells See Antigen . . . . . . . . 56--64
Reynold Spector and
Conrad E. Johanson The Mammalian Choroid Plexus . . . . . . 68--74
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Polluting Rights 76--79
Tim Beardsley Nets Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
E. C. Space Available . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 80--80
June Kinoshita Science in Pictures: Neptune . . . . . . 82--91
June Kinoshita Neptune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 (Intl. ed. 60--??)
Donald E. Hunton Shuttle Glow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--98
Anonymous Colored Segments of a Grid Can Shed a
Diffuse Glow Like the Light from a Neon
Tube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Anonymous A Microgolf Game Gives Professionals and
Amateurs an Equal Chance for a Hole in
One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
John M. Coles The World's Oldest Road . . . . . . . . 100--106
Charles L. Gray, Jr. and
Jeffrey A. Alson The Case for Methanol . . . . . . . . . 108--114
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 116--119
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 120--123
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--129
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Fuel for
Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
John Horgan Photogenic Science . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
T. M. B. Range War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
June Kinoshita The Lost Generation . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Tim Appenzeller After the Deluge . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--26
Corey S. Powell A Cosmic Unveiling . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
J. H. Big-Game Forensics . . . . . . . . . . . 27--30
J. H. What's a Hoatzin? . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
John Rennie Old Gene, New Trick . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Philip E. Ross Medicine: Stone to Bone . . . . . . . . 31--34
J. H. Science and the Citizen: Affirmative
Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
J. H. Nobel Prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Tim Beardsley Gaia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--36
Grant B. Romer and
Jeannette Delamoir The First Color Photographs . . . . . . 46
Sidney N. Graybeal and
Patricia Bliss McFate Getting Out of the Starting Block . . . 61--67
Jeremy Bloxham and
David Gubbins The Evolution of the Earth's Magnetic
Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
Ronald E. Kalil Synapse Formation in the Developing
Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--79, 82--85 (Intl. ed. 38)
Anonymous Why are the First Few Puffs the Hardest
When You Blow up a Balloon? . . . . . . 86
Grant B. Romer and
Jeannette Delamoir Science in Pictures: The First Color
Photographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--97
Anonymous A Pandora's Box of Minds, Machines and
Metaphysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Paul Wallich Science and Business: Manufacturing
Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--102
Elizabeth Corcoran Pourable Plastics . . . . . . . . . . . 102--104
E. C. Economic Intrigue . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 104--106
Michael A. Duncan and
Dennis H. Rouvray Microclusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--115
Bruce M. Beehler The Birds of Paradise . . . . . . . . . 116--123
William R. Uttal Teleoperators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--129
David Ulansey The Mithraic Mysteries . . . . . . . . . 130--135
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 136--139
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 140--142
Philip and
Phylis Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--152
Anonymous Annual Index: Annual Index, 1989 . . . . 154--157
Anthony Robbins Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--158
M. Gardner Mathematical Games: the Fantastic
Combinations of John Conway's New
Solitaire Game `Life' . . . . . . . . . 120--123
A. P. Ershov Mixed Computation . . . . . . . . . . . 28--42
C. Bays Candidates for the Game of Life in Three
Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--400