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Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Aftershocks . . 14--14
T. M. B. Loud and Clear . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
T. M. B. Nanofuture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
Philip E. Ross Nit Picker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
John Horgan Quasicrystal Clear . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Russell Ruthen Bottled Antimatter . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Corey S. Powell The Redshift Blues . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
T. M. B. On to the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
J. H. A Grave Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
J. H. See Spot See Blue . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
John R. Searle Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program? 20--25
John Rennie Nervous Excitement . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
J. H. Sleep of the Guilty . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
John Horgan Claude E. Shannon . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22B
Anonymous Artificial Intelligence: a Debate . . . 25--25
Paul M. Churchland and
Patricia Smith Churchland Could a Machine Think? . . . . . . . . . 26--31
John R. Searle Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program? 26--31
Paul M. Churchland and
Patricia Smith Churchland Could a Machine Think? . . . . . . . . . 32--37
Harold M. Weintraub Antisense RNA and DNA . . . . . . . . . 40--46
Wallace S. Broecker and
George H. Denton What Drives Glacial Cycles? . . . . . . 48--56
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Computer Babble 100--102
Deborah Erickson Rational Drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--104
Stuart M. Dambrot Tensaiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Paul Wallich and
Elizabeth Corcoran The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 104--105
Roger A. Hegstrom and
Dilip K. Kondepudi The Handedness of the Universe . . . . . 108--115
Robert M. Sapolsky Stress in the Wild . . . . . . . . . . . 116--123
John J. Bollinger and
David J. Wineland Microplasmas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--130
Anonymous A Backyard Version of a Stirling Engine
can be Built with Common Materials . . . 130
Samuel Gulkis and
Philip M. Lubin and
Stephan S. Meyer and
Robert F. Silverberg The Cosmic Background Explorer . . . . . 132--139
Anonymous The Cellular Automata Programs that
Create Wireworld, Rugworld and other
Diversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 140--144
A. K. Dewdney Computer Recreations . . . . . . . . . . 146--149
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--153
Richard Elliot Benedick Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: R.I.P.
Blackbird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--16
Tim Beardsley Aborted Research . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
J. H. Chub Hubbub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Corey S. Powell Up Against the Wall . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Tim Appenzeller Roving Stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
Philip E. Ross Cold Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
T. B. M. Snakes in the Grass . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
John Rennie Kissing Cousins . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
J. H. When Dad Drinks . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Paul Wallich Playing the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
John Horgan Indecent Burial . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
June Kinoshita The Oncogene Connection . . . . . . . . 24--24
Ronald Melzack The Tragedy of Needless Pain . . . . . . 27--33
Peter V. Foukal The Variable Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--41 (Intl. ed. 26)
Ary L. Goldberger and
David R. Rigney and
Bruce J. West Science in Pictures: Chaos and Fractals
in Human Physiology . . . . . . . . . . 42--49
Ary L. Goldberger and
David R. Rigney and
Bruce J. West Chaos and Fractals in Human Physiology 42 (Intl. ed. 34--??)
Govindjee and
William J. Coleman How Plants Make Oxygen . . . . . . . . . 50--58
Frederick S. Myers and
E. Corcoran Science and Business: Progress by
Degrees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--66
John Rennie Antibody Bonanza . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--65
E. C. Banking Futures . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66
Elizabeth Corcoran The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 66--66
Marc H. Brodsky Progress in Gallium Arsenide
Semiconductors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75 (Intl. ed. 56)
Gerald S. Wilkinson Food Sharing in Vampire Bats . . . . . . 76--82
Valentin L. Yanin The Archaeology of Novgorod . . . . . . 84--91
Anonymous When a Polymer Sheet is Stretched, It
May ``Neck'' Long Before it Snaps . . . 86
W. Brian Arthur Positive Feedbacks in the Economy . . . 92--99
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 100--105
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--111
Shirley M. Malcom Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Test Negative 18--22
Paul Wallich Polar Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
J. H. Vapor Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Corey S. Powell Astronomy Potpourri . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
J. H. Broadcast Warning . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
J. H. Bee Police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
John Rennie Who's the Dealer? . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Philip E. Ross Smelling Better . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Elizabeth Corcoran Down to the Wire . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
J. H. Heli-Hopper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Walter Greiner and
Aurel Sandulescu New Radioactivities . . . . . . . . . . 34
Tim Beardsley Fallout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--36
Ricki Rusting Safe Passage? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Tim Beardsley Punctuated Equilibrium . . . . . . . . . 36--38
Jack O. Burns and
Nebojsa Duric and
G. Jeffrey Taylor and
Stewart W. Johnson Observatories on the Moon . . . . . . . 42--49 (Intl. ed. 18)
Kendall A. Smith Interleukin-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
Karen Wright Trends in Communications: The Road to
the Global Village . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Walter Greiner and
Aurel Sandulescu New radioactivities (nucleus models) . . 58--63, 66, 67
Walter Greiner and
Aurel Sandulescu New Radioactivities . . . . . . . . . . 58--67
Arch C. Johnston and
Lisa R. Kanter Earthquakes in Stable Continental Crust 68--75 (Intl. ed. 42)
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Likely Litigation 76--77
E. C. Not Just a Pretty Face . . . . . . . . . 77--78
Fred Guterl One if by Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
E. C. Fischer Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79
Gregory T. Pope One-Step Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
Paul Wallich and
Elizabeth Corcoran The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 80--81
Karen Wright Trends in Communications: The Road to
the Global Village . . . . . . . . . . . 83--94
Karen Wright The Road to the Global Village . . . . . 83 (Intl. ed. 57--??)
Anonymous Lunar Infants, Lotteries and Meteorites
Expose the Dangers of Math Abuse . . . . 90
S. Laurie Sanderson and
Richard Wassersug Suspension-Feeding Vertebrates . . . . . 96--101
Joseph Weiss Unconscious Mental Functioning . . . . . 103--109
Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and
V. V. Ivanov The Early History of Indo-European
Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--116
A. K. Dewdney Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 118--121
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--127
Richard F. Tucker Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Slow Boat to
Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
John Horgan Right to Lie? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--18
T. M. B. Acid Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
T. M. B. Science Behind the Wall . . . . . . . . 20--20
Paul Wallich Zap! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Corey S. Powell Gone in a Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Philip E. Ross All about Eve . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
T. M. B. Green Thumbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
June Kinoshita Net Result: Folded Protein . . . . . . . 24--26
J. H. Space Invaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
John Rennie Tone of Relief . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
John Horgan Mandelbrot Set-To . . . . . . . . . . . 30--34
Robert Repetto Deforestation in the Tropics . . . . . . 36--42
Charles H. Townes and
Reinhard Genzel What is Happening at the Center of Our
Galaxy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--55 (Intl. ed. 26)
Kary B. Mullis The Unusual Origin of the Polymerase
Chain Reaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--65
Richard A. F. Grieve Impact Cratering on the Earth . . . . . 66--73 (Intl. ed. 44)
John E. Yelled The Transformation of the Kalahari !Kung 72
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Milliken & Co. . . 74--76
Deborah Erickson Of Mice and Men . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
D. E. Atmosphere of Uncertainty . . . . . . . 77--78
Henry Scott Stokes Breakup? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
D. E. Cashcowosaurus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 79--80
Michael W. Golay and
Neil E. Todreas Advanced Light-Water Reactors . . . . . 82--89 (Intl. ed. 58)
Anonymous A Homemade Copper Chloride Laser Emits
Powerful Burst of Green and Yellow Light 88
Robert B. Barlow, Jr. What the Brain Tells the Eye . . . . . . 90--95 (Intl. ed. 66)
John E. Yellen The Transformation of the Kalahari !Kung 96--105
Pamela B. Vandiver Ancient Glazes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--113
Jearl Walker The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 114--117
M. Granger Morgan Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--123
Al Gore Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Second Opinion 19--20
John Horgan Open Skies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--24
Corey S. Powell Can't Get there from here . . . . . . . 24--25
Paul Wallich Murky Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Russell Ruthen Go with the Grain . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
Ari W. Epstein Cool Breeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
J. H. Now you see it \ldots . . . . . . . . . 30--32
T. M. B. Reach Out and Touch \ldots . . . . . . . 32--32
T. M. B. Snail Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
T. M. B. Tainted Feed, Mad Cows . . . . . . . . . 34--34
J. H. Through a Glass, Darkly . . . . . . . . 34--36
J. H. An Antidrug Message gets its Facts Wrong 36--36
T. M. B. Radiation Risks Revisited . . . . . . . 36--40
John Horgan Free Radical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--44
Peter J. Neufeld and
Neville Colman When Science Takes the Witness Stand . . 46--53
John N. Bahcall The Solar-Neutrino Problem . . . . . . . 54--61 (Intl. ed. 26)
Kared Wright Trends in Transportation: The Shape of
Things to Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Steven A. Rosenberg Adoptive Immunotherapy for Cancer . . . 62--69 (Intl. ed. 34)
Peter Wellnhofer Archaeopteryx . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--77
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Bright Future . . 78--80
Deborah Erickson Trick of the Tongue . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
D. E. Putting Down Roots . . . . . . . . . . . 81--84
John Rennie Cancer Catcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Frederick S. Myers Play it Again, WABOT . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 86--88
Anonymous How to Transform Flights of Fancy into
Fractal Flora or Fauna . . . . . . . . . 90
Karen Wright Trends in Transportation: The Shape of
Things to Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--101
Karen Wright The Shape of Things to Go . . . . . . . 92
William C. Leggett and
Kenneth T. Frank The Spawning of the Capelin . . . . . . 102--107
Carl W. Peterson High-Performance Parachutes . . . . . . 108--116
John C. Caldwell and
Pat Caldwell High Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa . . 118--125
A. K. Dewdney Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 126--129
Priscilla Johnson McMillan Books: Review of \booktitleEdward
Teller: Giant of the Golden Age of
Physics, by Stanley A. Blumberg and
Louis G. Panos . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--135
Richard J. Mahoney Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago: Errata . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Deborah Erickson Science and the Citizen: Blood Feud . . 17--18
Tim Beardsley Hubble's Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--22
John Horgan Death Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--25
Paul Wallich Peary Redux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Corey S. Powell Science Writ Small . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
June Kinoshita Atomic Fountain . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--31
J. H. ``Flying Ring'' Inventor Revamps the
Boomerang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Philip E. Ross Man Bites Shark . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
John Rennie Old Green Genes . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--34
J. H. Skullduggery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Ricki Rusting Easing the Trauma . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
John Horgan Overview: Schizophrenia . . . . . . . . 37--40
André Ulmann and
Georges Teutsch and
Daniel Philibert Ru 486 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--48
Richard P. Binzel Pluto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--58 (Intl. ed. 26)
Nobuo Suga Biosonar and Neural Computation in Bats 60--68
Kenneth C. Macdonald and
Paul J. Fox The Mid-Ocean Ridge . . . . . . . . . . 72--79 (Intl. ed. 42)
Paul J. Nahin Oliver Heaviside . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Talking Policy . . 82--84
Deborah Erickson Sick of Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--86
Philip E. Ross Dust Busters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--88
D. E. Patent Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--93
Anonymous Sunspots and how to observe them safely 88
D. E. Remote Possibility . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 94--95
Theodore W. Pietsch and
David B. Grobecker Science in Pictures: Frogfishes . . . . 96--103
Theodore W. Pietsch and
David B. Grobecker Frogfishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 (Intl. ed. 56--??)
Olli V. Lounasmaa and
George Pickett The $^3$He Superfluids . . . . . . . . . 104--111 (Intl. ed. 64)
John P. Reganold and
Robert I. Papendick and
James F. Parr Sustainable Agriculture . . . . . . . . 112--120
Paul J. Nahin Oliver Heaviside . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--129
Paul J. Nahin Oliver Heaviside (biography) . . . . . . 122--129
Forrest M. Mims III The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 130--133
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--139
Ralph Gomory Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: The Death
Penalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--20
J. H. As Birth-Control Options in the U.S.
Dwindle, more Married Women Turn to
Sterilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
J. H. Strength in Numbers . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Pat Janowski Mapping the Immeasurable . . . . . . . . 24--25
John Rennie Of Mice and MS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
J. H. Pythagoras's Bells . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Tim Beardsley Shocking Genes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
J. H. A Nasty Little Squirt . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Philip E. Ross Gothic Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
T. M. B. Orbiting Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Corey S. Powell Lost in the Clouds . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Russell Ruthen Profile: Modest Maverick . . . . . . . . 32--35
Robert M. White The Great Climate Debate . . . . . . . . 36--43
Eddy M. De Robertis and
Guillermo Oliver and
Christopher V. E. Wright Homeobox Genes and the Vertebrate Body
Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--52 (Intl. ed. 26)
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Tim Beardsley Trends in Aerospace: The New Space Race 50
Stephen Myers and
Emilio Picasso The LEP Collider . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61 (Intl. ed. 34)
Mark A. Atkinson and
Noel K. Maclaren What Causes Diabetes? . . . . . . . . . 62--71
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Tim Beardsley Trends in Aerospace: The New Space Race 72--85
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Tim Beardsley The New Space Race . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Michael G. Sheldrick Science and Business: Driving While
Automated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--88
Anonymous An Odd Journey Along Even Roads Leads to
Home in Golygon City . . . . . . . . . . 86
Deborah Erickson Do you See What I See? . . . . . . . . . 88--89
John Rennie Move Over, Mr. Spock . . . . . . . . . . 89--92
D. E. Now Hear This . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 93--93
John A. Conkling Pyrotechnics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--102
Joseph R. Newhouse Chestnut Blight . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--111
Ronald L. Graham and
Joel H. Spencer Ramsey Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--117
A. K. Dewdney Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 118--121
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--127
Norton D. Zinder Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Paul Wallich Science and the Citizen: Dark Days . . . 16--20
Fred Guterl Big Country, Big Problems . . . . . . . 20--20
Marguerite Holloway Hot Geese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Tim Beardsley Oravske Kuru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
John Horgan Bufo Abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Ricki Rusting A Clock in the Trees . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
John Horgan Unsolved Mysteries . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
T. M. B. The Sea Turtle's Tale . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Tim Beardsley Profile: Gene Doctor . . . . . . . . . . 33--33B
Janne E. Nolan and
Albert D. Wheelon Third World Ballistic Missiles . . . . . 34--40
Robert J. Cava Superconductors Beyond 1-2-3 . . . . . . 42--49 (Intl. ed. 24)
John Mills and
Henry Masur AIDS-Related Infections . . . . . . . . 50--57
Hartmut Jürgens and
Heinz-Otto Peitgen and
Dietmar Saupe The Language of Fractals . . . . . . . . 60--67
R. Stephen Berry When the melting and freezing points are
not the same . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--74
Steven N. Handel and
Andrew J. Beattie Seed Dispersal by Ants . . . . . . . . . 76--83A
Philip D. Jones and
Tom M. L. Wigley Global Warming Trends . . . . . . . . . 84--91
Anonymous How to Monitor Ultraviolet Radiation
from the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
June Kinoshita Science in Pictures: Maya Art for the
Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--97
June Kinoshita Maya Art for the Record . . . . . . . . 92 (Intl. ed. 74--??)
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: a Thin Line . . . 98--100
Corey S. Powell Plastic Goes Green . . . . . . . . . . . 101--101
Deborah Erickson Down on the Pharm . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
D. E. Solar Sells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 104--104
Forrest M. Mims III The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 106--109
Anon Amateur scientist . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--115
Miriam Rothschild Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Blurred
Reflections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--29
T. M. B. Molecular Engineers Mimic Mother Nature 30--30
T. M. B. Boosting Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Ricki Rusting Hatchet Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Paul Wallich Digital Desperados . . . . . . . . . . . 34--38
Philip E. Ross Lorenz's Butterfly . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Marguerite Holloway Fetal Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--48
T. M. B. Easier Said than Done . . . . . . . . . 48--50
John Rennie Overview: Tolerating Self . . . . . . . 50--53
Ged R. Davis Energy for Planet Earth . . . . . . . . 54--60, 62 (Intl. ed. 20--27)
Deborah L. Bleviss and
Peter Walzer Energy for Motor Vehicles . . . . . . . 54--61 (or 102--109??)
Ged R. Davis Energy for Planet Earth . . . . . . . . 54--62
Arnold P. Fickett and
Clark W. Gellings and
Amory B. Lovins Efficient Use of Electricity . . . . . . 64--74
William U. Chandler and
Alexei A. Makarov and
Zhou Dadi Energy for the Soviet Union, Eastern
Europe and China . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--80 (or 120--127??)
Rick Bevington and
Arthur H. Rosenfeld Energy for Buildings and Homes . . . . . 76--86
Marc H. Ross and
Daniel Steinmeyer Energy for Industry . . . . . . . . . . 88--98
Deborah L. Bleviss and
Peter Walzer Energy for Motor Vehicles . . . . . . . 102--109
Amulya K. N. Reddy and
José Goldemberg Energy for the Developing World . . . . 110--118 (or 62--72??) (Intl. ed. 62--72)
William U. Chandler and
Alexei A. Makarov and
Zhou Dadi Energy for the Soviet Union, Eastern
Europe and China . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--127
Anonymous How to Resurrect a Cat from Its Grin . . 124
William Fulkerson and
Roddie R. Judkins and
Manoj K. Sanghvi Energy from Fossil Fuels . . . . . . . . 128--135 (Intl. ed. 82--89)
Wolf Häfele Energy from Nuclear Power . . . . . . . 136--144
Carl J. Weinberg and
Robert H. Williams Energy from the Sun . . . . . . . . . . 146--155 (Intl. ed. 98--106)
John P. Holdren Energy in Transition . . . . . . . . . . 156--163 (Intl. ed. 108--115)
Deborah Erickson Science and Business: Big-Time Orphan 164--166
Gary Stix Meteoric Messages . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167
D. E. Skin Stand-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--168
G. S. Muffling Umklapp . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--169
Elizabeth Corcoran Electron Switches . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
John Rennie Anatomical Cartography . . . . . . . . . 170--170
Paul Wallich and
Elizabeth Corcoran The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 171--171
A. K. Dewdney Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 174--177
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--183
Robert Malpas Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: New Order . . . 18--24
Feng-hsiung Hsu and
Thomas Anantharaman and
Murray Campbell and
Andreas Nowatzyk A Grandmaster Chess Machine . . . . . . 18--24
Holger Wittekindt A Latin American Caterpillar Calls Ants
to a Free Meal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Philip E. Ross Venus Unveiled . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
T. M. B. Fowl Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Ricki Rusting Seeing the Light . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
T. M. B. Adjusted Agenda . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
David Cooke Teaching Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Philip Yam Stardust Memories . . . . . . . . . . . 34--37
T. M. B. Cannabis Comprehended . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Marguerite Holloway Profile: Vive La Différence . . . . . . . 40--42
Feng-hsiung Hsu and
Thomas Anantharaman and
Murray Campbell and
Andreas Nowatzyk A Grandmaster Chess Machine . . . . . . 44--50
Hsu Feng-hsiung and
Thomas Anantharaman and
Murray Campbell and
Andreas Nowatzyk A Grandmaster Chess Machine . . . . . . 44
Carmen Sapienza Parental Imprinting of Genes . . . . . . 52--60
Robert C. Spindel and
Peter F. Worcester Ocean Acoustic Tomography . . . . . . . 62--67 (or 94)
David M. Pepper and
Jack Feinberg and
Nicolai V. Kukhtarev The Photorefractive Effect . . . . . . . 62--74
John Horgan Trends in Cosmology: Universal Truths 74
Anonymous Debate: What Caused the Mass Extinction? 76--77
Walter Alvarez and
Frank Asaro What Caused the Mass Extinction? an
Extraterrestrial Impact . . . . . . . . 76 (Intl. ed. 44--??)
Vincent E. Courtillot What Caused the Mass Extinction? a
Volcanic Eruption . . . . . . . . . . . 76 (Intl. ed. 53--??)
Walter Alvarez and
Frank Asaro An Extraterrestrial Impact . . . . . . . 78--84
Vincent E. Courtillot A Volcanic Eruption . . . . . . . . . . 85--92
Anonymous A Remote-Control Camera that Catches the
Wind and Captures the Landscape . . . . 92
Robert C. Spindel and
Peter F. Worcester Ocean Acoustic Tomography . . . . . . . 94--99
Rolf F. Barth and
Albert H. Soloway and
Ralph G. Fairchild Boron Neutron Capture Therapy for Cancer 100--107
John Horgan Trends in Cosmology: Universal Truths 108--117
John Horgan Universal Truths . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Gary Stix Science and Business: Gigabit Connection 118--120
Deborah Erickson On Again, Off Again . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
G. S. Cold Cathodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
G. S. Infrastructure Woes . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
G. S. Less of a Problem? . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 125--125
Forrest M. Mims III The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 126--129
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--134
James L. Johnson Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Marguerite Holloway Science and the Citizen: ``A Great
Poison'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--20
M. H. Questions About a Major Herbicide . . . 20--20
Gary Stix The Ò's have it . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Deborah Erickson Trojan Cow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Philip Yam Terrorist Shrimp Kidnaps for Defense . . 26--26
Russell Ruthen Light Motif . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
John Horgan Stinging Criticism . . . . . . . . . . . 29--32
J. H. Liquid Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Tim Beardsley Recovery Drill . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Philip E. Ross Overview: Dead Sea Scrolls . . . . . . . 36--38
Nathan Rosenberg and
L. E. Birdzell, Jr. Science, Technology and the Western
Miracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--54
Martin J. Rees Black Holes in Galactic Centers . . . . 56--66
Inder M. Verma Gene Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--84
Elizabeth Corcoran Trends in Materials: Diminishing
Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Jonathan Winson The Meaning of Dreams . . . . . . . . . 86--96
Anonymous A Compendium of Math Abuse from around
the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Vaughan F. R. Jones Knot Theory and Statistical Mechanics 98--103
A. Trevor Hodge A Roman Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--111
Robin J. Wootton The Mechanical Design of Insect Wings 114--120 (Intl. ed. 66)
Elizabeth Corcoran Diminishing dimensions . . . . . . . . . 122--126, 128--131
Elizabeth Corcoran Trends in Materials: Diminishing
Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--131
Deborah Erickson Science and Business: Electronic Earful 132--134
Gary Stix Bug-Eyed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--135
D. E. Not Biochips? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--138
Philip E. Ross A Million Watts of Light . . . . . . . . 138--139
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 140--140
A. K. Dewdney Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 142--145
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--151
J. Christopher Westland Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--152
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anon Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anon 50 and 100 Years ago . . . . . . . . . . 14
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Measuring
Eternity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--20
Anon Science and the citizen . . . . . . . . 16
Corey S. Powell Far Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--23
John Horgan Going to Pot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Gary Stix Beam of Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
John Horgan Double Trouble . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--28
Philip Yam Acacia Trees Kill Antelope in the
Transvaal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Tim Beardsley Clearing the Airways . . . . . . . . . . 28--33
Marguerite Holloway Mussels may Clump Together to Improve
their Food Supply . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Tim Beardsley Profile: Dr. Greenhouse . . . . . . . . 33--36
A. H. Zewail The birth of molecules (ultrafast
photographic observations) . . . . . . . 40--46
Bruce G. Blair and
Henry W. Kendall Accidental Nuclear War . . . . . . . . . 53--58
R. Stephen Saunders Science in Pictures: The Surface of
Venus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--62
R. Stephen Saunders The Surface of Venus . . . . . . . . . . 60 (Intl. ed. 26--31)
Igor N. Todorov How Cells Maintain Stability . . . . . . 66--75
Ahmed H. Zewail The Birth of Molecules . . . . . . . . . 76--82
John Rennie Trends in Immunology: The Body Against
Itself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Ahmed H. Zewail The Birth of Molecules . . . . . . . . . 76 (Intl. ed. 40--??)
Irvin Rock and
Stephen Palmer The Legacy of Gestalt Psychology . . . . 84--90
Kenneth B. Storey and
Janet M. Storey Frozen and Alive . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--97
Anonymous Fermat's Christmas Theorem is Explained
in One Dickens of a Tale . . . . . . . . 94
Christopher B. Stringer The Emergence of Modern Humans . . . . . 98--104
John Rennie Trends in Immunology: The Body Against
itself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--115
John Rennie The Body against Itself . . . . . . . . 106
Gary Stix Science and Business: Narrow Bandwidth 116--118
Anon Science and business . . . . . . . . . . 116
Gary Stix This number is you . . . . . . . . . . . 118--119
Deborah Erickson Sugar Fix? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--122
Gary Stix Field Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
Tim Beardsley Food for Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125
Paul Wallich Garbage In, Garbage Out . . . . . . . . 126--126
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 127--127
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 128--131
Anon Mathematical recreations . . . . . . . . 128
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--139
Anon Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Anonymous Annual Index 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . 140--143
Anon Annual index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Christopher P. Mckay and
Robert H. Haynes Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Fred Cuterl and
Russell Ruthen Science and the Citizen: Chunnel Vision 22--28
Philip Yam Short-Order Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Marguerite Holloway Neural Vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Tim Beardsley Trans Fat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Paul Wallich Wavelet Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
John Rennie Leaky Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--36
Tim Beardsley Profile: AIDS Dispute . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Jeffrey T. Richelson The Future of Space Reconnaissance . . . 38--44
Per Bak and
Kan Chen Self-Organized Criticality . . . . . . . 46--53 (Intl. ed. 26)
Frederic M. Richards The Protein Folding Problem . . . . . . 54--63
Gustina Scaglia Building the Cathedral in Florence . . . 66--72
Elizabeth Corcoran Trends in Computing: Calculating Reality 74
David C. Black Worlds Around Other Stars . . . . . . . 76--83
Gerald Weissmann Aspirin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--90
Anonymous Tools for Computer Graphics Make an
Invisible World Seem Less Alien . . . . 90
Nicholas B. Davies and
Michael Brooke Coevolution of the Cuckoo and Its Hosts 92--98
Elizabeth Corcoran Trends in Computing: Calculating Reality 100--109
Elizabeth Corcoran Calculating Reality . . . . . . . . . . 100 (Intl. ed. 74--??)
Gary Stix Science and Business: Second-Generation
Silicon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Gary Stix Future Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
Deborah Erickson Gene Rush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
Gary Stix Yale Set Designers Turn to Finite
Element Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
Philip E. Ross Buckeyballs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--116
Gary Stix Another Small Step? . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Paul Wallich and
Elizabeth Corcoran The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 117--117
A. K. Dewdney Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 118--121
Anonymous Mathematical recreations . . . . . . . . 118
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--125
Anonymous Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
B. R. Inman and
Daniel F. Burton Essay: Technology and Competitiveness 126--126
B. R. Inman and
Daniel F. Burton Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Russell Ruthen Science and the Citizen: Iraq's Nuclear
Threat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous Science and the citizen . . . . . . . . 14
Tim Beardsley The A Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--19
John Horgan Postal Mortem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Elizabeth Corcoran Charting a More Cautious Path to Space 24--24
Corey S. Powell Disposable Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Corey S. Powell Hubble Bags a Great White . . . . . . . 26--26
Tim Beardsley Superconducting Transistors Show their
Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Paul Wallich Safe Bytes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Tim Beardsley Nuclear Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Sevgi O. Aral and
King K. Holmes Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the
AIDS Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--69
Gary J. Feldman and
Jack Steinberger The Number of Families of Matter . . . . 70--75
Walter J. Freeman The Physiology of Perception . . . . . . 78--85 (Intl. ed. 34)
Donald P. Greenberg Computers and Architecture . . . . . . . 88--93 (or 104)
Malcolm R. Howells and
Janos Kirz and
David Sayre X-Ray Microscopes . . . . . . . . . . . 88--94 (Intl. ed. 42--48)
Peggy D. Rismiller and
Roger S. Seymour The Echidna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--103
John Horgan Trends in Evolution: In the
Beginning\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Donald P. Greenberg Science in Pictures: Computers and
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--109
Edward L. Kottick and
Kenneth D. Marshall and
Thomas J. Hendrickson The Acoustics of the Harpsichord . . . . 110--115
John Horgan Trends in Evolution: in the
Beginning\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--125
John Horgan In the Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous The True Story of how Theseus Found His
Way out of the Labyrinth . . . . . . . . 118
Deborah Erickson Science and Business: Life in the Blood 126--127
Anonymous Science and business . . . . . . . . . . 126
Gary Stix Changing Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
Deborah Erickson An Acoustic Sensor Spies on Insects . . 131--131
Gary Stix Hole or Doughnut . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--133
Gary Stix Reach Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--134
Paul Wallich and
Elizabeth Corcoran The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 135--135
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 136--139
Anonymous Mathematical recreations . . . . . . . . 136
Philip J. Klass Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--143
Anonymous Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Bill Nelson Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Death with
Dignity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--20
Anonymous Science and the citizen . . . . . . . . 17
John Horgan A Modest Proposal on Altruism . . . . . 20--20
Marguerite Holloway Sex and Silversides . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Corey S. Powell X-Ray Riddle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
John Horgan The Leading Theory of the Universe
Survives Another Attack . . . . . . . . 27--27
John Rennie Down for the Count . . . . . . . . . . . 27--30
Tim Beardsley Guessing Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--33
Tim Beardsley A Nitrogen Fix for Wheat . . . . . . . . 32--32
Philip Yam Grim Expectations . . . . . . . . . . . 33--34
Tom Koppel Profile: Supercomputer Solo . . . . . . 34--36
John H. Barton Patenting Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--46
Leon M. Lederman The Tevatron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55 (Intl. ed. 26)
Andrew W. Murray and
Marc W. Kirschner What Controls the Cell Cycle . . . . . . 56--63
William F. Ruddiman and
John E. Kutzbach Plateau Uplift and Climatic Change . . . 66--75
Marguerite Holloway Trends in Pharmacology: Rx for Addiction 70
Roland Winston Nonimaging Optics . . . . . . . . . . . 76--81 (Intl. ed. 52)
James A. Young Tumbleweed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--87
Anthony M. Snodgrass and
John L. Bintliff Surveying Ancient Cities . . . . . . . . 88--93
Anonymous A Menu of Mathematical Morsels,
Topological Tidbits and Puzzling Plums 88
Anthony M. Snodgrass and
John L. Bintliff Surveying Ancient Cities . . . . . . . . 88 (Intl. ed. 64--??)
Marguerite Holloway Trends in Pharmacology . . . . . . . . . 94--103
Marguerite Holloway R$_x$ for addiction . . . . . . . . . . 94
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Light Traffic . . 106--108
Anonymous Science and business . . . . . . . . . . 106
Gary Stix Plane Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Deborah Erickson Through the Grapevine . . . . . . . . . 111--112
Gary Stix Thinking Cap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
Deborah Erickson Complete Combustion . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 114--114
A. K. Dewdney Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 116--118
Anonymous Mathematical recreations . . . . . . . . 116
Timothy Ferris Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--125
Anonymous Brooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Jonathan Mann Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Cold Start . . 14--16
Tim Beardsley Tracking the Missing Carbon . . . . . . 16--16
Deborah Erickson Seeking Senescence . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Tim Beardsley A Gentler Therapy? . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Philip Yam Into the Lattice . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Corey S. Powell Looking for Nothing . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Nisa Geller Old Masters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Marguerite Holloway A Press Release on Dioxin Sets the
Record Wrong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
John Horgan History Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Anonymous Profile: Political Engineer . . . . . . 26--35
Harold M. Hubbard The Real Cost of Energy . . . . . . . . 36--42
Peter W. Stephens and
Alan I. Goldman The Structure of Quasicrystals . . . . . 44--53
Steven Lanier McKnight Molecular Zippers in Gene Regulation . . 54--64
Philip E. Ross Trends in Linguistics: Hard Words . . . 70
Anonymous Why Tarzan and Jane Can Walk in Step
with the Animals that Roam the Jungle 88
Roald Z. Sagdeev and
Charles F. Kennel Collisionless Shock Waves . . . . . . . 106--113
Pierre Tiollais and
Marie-Annick Buendia Hepatitis B Virus . . . . . . . . . . . 116--123
Donald M. Trotter, Jr. Science in Pictures: Photochromic and
Photosensitive Glass . . . . . . . . . . 124--129
Donald M. Trotter, Jr. Photochromic and Photosensitive Glass 124 (Intl. ed. 56--61)
R. McNeill Alexander How Dinosaurs Ran . . . . . . . . . . . 130--136
Philip E. Ross Trends in Linguistics: Hard Words . . . 138--147
Philip E. Ross Hard Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 (Intl. ed. 70--??)
Deborah Erickson Science and Business: Love and Terror 148--150
John Rennie A Plague of Plaques . . . . . . . . . . 150--150
Gary Stix Is Morse Code Signing off? . . . . . . . 152--152
Gary Stix Call and Tell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Mark Fischetti Gas Vaccine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154
Tim Beardsley Mind Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--156
Paul Wallich and
Elizabeth Corcoran The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 157--157
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 158--161
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--167
Michael E. Porter Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--168
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50 and 100 years ago . . . . . . . . . . 14
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Up in Flames 17--24
Anonymous Science and the citizen . . . . . . . . 17
John Horgan U.S. Gags Discussion of War's
Environmental Effects . . . . . . . . . 24--24
John Rennie Proofreading Genes . . . . . . . . . . . 28--32
Marguerite Holloway Hol Chan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Philip Yam Freezing Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Tim Beardsley Parched Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
John Horgan Profile: Reluctant Revolutionary . . . . 40--49
Norbert Hirschhorn and
William B. Greenough III Progress in Oral Rehydration Therapy . . 50--56
Frank Wilczek Anyons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65 (Intl. ed. 24)
Carol L. Moberg and
Zanvil A. Cohn René Jules Dubos . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--74
Elizabeth Corcoran Trends in Energy: Cleaning up Coal . . . 70
Misha A. Mahowald and
Carver Mead The Silicon Retina . . . . . . . . . . . 76--82 (Intl. ed. 40)
George Brimhall The Genesis of Ores . . . . . . . . . . 84--91 (Intl. ed. 48)
Anonymous The Theory of Rigidity, or How to Brace
Yourself against Unlikely Accidents . . 89
Patrick Cunningham The Genetics of Thoroughbred Horses . . 92--98
Donald R. Hill Mechanical Engineering in the Medieval
Near East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--105 (Intl. ed. 64)
Elizabeth Corcoran Cleaning Up Coal . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--116
Elizabeth Corcoran Trends in Energy: Cleaning Up Coal . . . 106--116
Gary Stix Science and Business: Handful of Pain 118--120
Anonymous Science and business . . . . . . . . . . 118
Gary Stix Light Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Deborah Erickson Cadmium Charges . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
Gary Stix Protein Probe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Deborah Erickson Open Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 125--125
A. K. Dewdney Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 126--128
Anonymous Mathematical recreations . . . . . . . . 126
Philip Morrison Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--135
Anonymous Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
John Kenneth Galbraith Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Philip E. Ross Science and the Citizen: Science? Nyet 17--20
John Horgan Do Screwy Images Solve a Superconductor
Mystery? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
John Rennie Homeobox Harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
John Horgan From the Ashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Paul Wallich Of Two Minds about Privacy . . . . . . . 27--27
Philip Yam There's the Rub . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Russell Ruthen Double Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Tim Beardsley Second Guessing . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
John Horgan Questioning the ``It from Bit'' . . . . 36--38
Steven Aftergood and
David W. Hafemeister and
Oleg F. Prilutsky and
Joel R. Primack and
Stanislav N. Rodionov Nuclear Power in Space . . . . . . . . . 42--47
Thierry J.- L. Courvoisier and
E. Ian Robson The Quasar 3C 273 . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
Vincent A. Fischetti Streptococcal M Protein . . . . . . . . 58--65
Owen B. Toon and
Richard P. Turco Polar Stratospheric Clouds and Ozone
Depletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--74
Corey S. Powell Trends in Geophysics: Peering Inward . . 72--81
Edward McEwen and
Robert L. Miller and
Christopher A. Bergman Early Bow Design and Construction . . . 76--82
Michael W. Berns Laser Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--90
Anonymous A Swift Trip over Rugged Terrain . . . . 89
Sir William McCrea Arthur Stanley Eddington . . . . . . . . 92--97
Corey S. Powell Trends in Geophysics: Peering Inward . . 100--111
Corey S. Powell Peering Inward . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Flat Horizons . . 112--114
Deborah Erickson Lighten Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Tom Koppel Reading Books Byte by Byte . . . . . . . 116--117
Elizabeth Corcoran Starting from Scratch . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Deborah Erickson Clot Spotter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--119
John Rennie Selling Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Elizabeth Corcoran Sorting Out Chaos on Wall Street . . . . 121--121
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: a Swift Trip
over Rugged Terrain . . . . . . . . . . 123--125
Philip Morrison Brief: Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . 127--131
Sergei Kapitza Essay: The State of Soviet Science . . . 132--132
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Burning
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--24
Anonymous Science and the citizen . . . . . . . . 17
John Horgan Why are Data from Kuwait Being Withheld? 20--20
John Rennie Proteins 2, Malaria 0 . . . . . . . . . 24--25
John Rennie Birds of a Fever . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Deborah Erickson Molecular Trickster . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Russell Ruthen Quantum Magnets . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Philip Yam Math Exorcise . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Corey S. Powell Live from Off-Center . . . . . . . . . . 29--32
John Horgan Biggest Black Hole in the Universe? . . 32--32
Marguerite Holloway A Subtle Mind Contemplates Science . . . 33--34
David F. Musto Opium, Cocaine and Marijuana in American
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
Steven W. Stahler The Early Life of Stars . . . . . . . . 48--55
Justin A. Zivin and
Dennis W. Choi Stroke Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
Glen M. Robinson and
David M. Perry and
Richard W. Peterson Optical Interferometry of Surfaces . . . 66--71
Gary A. Strobel Biological Control of Weeds . . . . . . 72--78
Gary Stix Trends in Transportation: Along for the
Ride? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--85
Izumi Shimada and
John F. Merkel Copper-Alloy Metallurgy in Ancient Peru 80--86
Peter Bellwood The Austronesian Dispersal and the
Origin of Languages . . . . . . . . . . 88--93
Anonymous Insectoids Invade a Field of Robots . . 93
Gary Stix Trends in Transportation: Along for the
Ride? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--106
Gary Stix Along for the Ride? . . . . . . . . . . 94
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Silicon Lights Up 108--109
Elizabeth Corcoran Memorable Revival . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
Elizabeth Corcoran A Chip-Making Plan to Leapfrog Japan . . 110--110
Elizabeth Corcoran Sound Bytes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
Paul Wallich Fortran Forever . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Deborah Erickson $3$-D Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--116
Philip E. Ross A Matter of Taste . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Paul Wallich and
Elizabeth Corcoran Games that Networks Play . . . . . . . . 117--117
A. K. Dewdney Mathematical Recreations: Insectoids
Invade a Field of Robots . . . . . . . . 118--121
Philip Morrison Books: Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . 122--127
John Timpane Essay: The Poetry of Science . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Exporting
Misery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Deborah Erickson Do DNA Fingerprints Protect the
Innocent? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
John Rennie A Small Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Russell Ruthen Waves are Waves\ldots . . . . . . . . . 21--22
John Horgan Caribbean Killer . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Corey S. Powell The New Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Tim Beardsley Positive Response . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Philip E. Ross Man's Best Friend . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Marguerite Holloway The Reward of Ideas that are Wrong . . . 29--30
Sergei Kapitza Antiscience Trends in the U.S.S.R. . . . 32--38
Joshua Barnes and
Lars Hernquist and
François Schweizer Colliding Galaxies . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
Robert K. Moyzis The Human Telomere . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
Horst Breuker and
Hans Drevermann and
Christoph Grab and
Alphonse A. Rademakers and
Howard Stone Science in Pictures: Tracking and
Imaging Elementary Particles . . . . . . 58--63
Horst Breuker and
Hans Drevermann and
Christoph Grab and
Alphonse A. Rademakers and
Howard Stone Tracking and Imaging Elementary
Particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 (Intl. ed. 42--47)
Jerome S. Schultz Biosensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--69
Howard E. Evans and
Kevin M. O'Neill Beewolves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--76
Tim Beardsley Trends in Biology: Smart Genes . . . . . 72
Stuart A. Kauffman Antichaos and Adaptation . . . . . . . . 78--84
Tim Beardsley Trends in Biology: Smart Genes . . . . . 86--95
Tim Beardsley Smart Genes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Anonymous What in Heaven is a Digital Sundial? . . 89
Elizabeth Corcoran Ordering chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96, 98
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Ordering Chaos . . 96--98
Deborah Erickson Can Japan Put the Brakes on Global
Warming? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Gary Stix Firewater Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Gary Stix Off the MAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Deborah Erickson Painkiller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--101
Deborah Erickson Binding Bone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich The Rise and Fall of Cities . . . . . . 103--103
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: What in Heaven
is a Digital Sundial? . . . . . . . . . 104--106
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--111
Charles E. Ziegler Essay: The Second Bottom Line . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
John Rennie Science and the Citizen: Graft without
Corruption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--22
Tim Beardsley Elusive Quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--26
Russell Ruthen Gravity's Rainbow . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Philip Yam AIDS Education May Breed Intolerance . . 30--30
Philip Yam Has AIDS Peaked? . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--34
Deborah Erickson Model Mice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
John Rennie Psychic vs. Skeptic . . . . . . . . . . 39--40
Philip E. Ross Mutt & Jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--48
G. C. Vinton Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--51
Russell Ruthen Clear Advantage . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--53
Gary Stix Profile: David A. Huffman: Encoding the
``Neatness'' of Ones and Zeroes . . . . 54--58
Michael L. Dertouzos Communications, Computers and Networks 62--69
Vinton G. Cerf Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--81
Lawrence G. Tesler Networked Computing in the 1990s . . . . 86--93
Mark Weiser The Computer for the 21st Century . . . 94--104
Nicholas P. Negroponte Products and Services for Computer
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--113
Anne W. Branscomb Computers, Networks and Public Policy:
Common Law for the Electronic Frontier 108
Al Gore Computers, Networks and Public Policy:
Infrastructure for the Global Village 108
Mitchell Kapor Computers, Networks and Public Policy:
Civil Liberties in Cyberspace . . . . . 108
Lee Sproull and
Sara Kiesler Computers, Networks and Work . . . . . . 116--123
Thomas W. Malone and
John F. Rockart Computers, Networks and the Corporation 128--136
Anonymous Leaping into Lyapunov space . . . . . . 130
Alan C. Kay Computers, Networks and Education . . . 138--148
Anonymous Computers, Networks and Public Policy 150--150
Al Gore Infrastructure for the Global Village 150--153
Anne W. Branscomb Common Law for the Electronic Frontier 154--158
Mitchell Kapor Civil Liberties in Cyberspace . . . . . 158--164
Gary Stix Science and Business: Golden Screws . . 166--169
Tom Koppel Learning how Bacteria Swim could Set New
Gears in Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--169
Elizabeth Corcoran True Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172
Gary Stix Moles at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--173
Deborah Erickson Industrial Immunology . . . . . . . . . 174--175
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich Trading Leisure Time for More Goods? . . 176--176
A. K. Dewdney Mathematical Recreations: Leaping into
Lyapunov Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--180
Philip Morrison Books: Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . 182--189
R. W. Lucky Essay: The Urge of an Ancient Dream . . 190--190
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
John Rennie Science and the Citizen: Howls of Dismay 18--20
Corey S. Powell Greenhouse Gusher . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Philip Yam Sol's Plumage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Philip Yam Spin Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
John Horgan The Danger from Kuwait's Air Pollution 30--30
Philip E. Ross Crossed Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Tim Beardsley Sharper Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Robert F. Curl and
Richard E. Smalley Fullerenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
John Horgan Word Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Tim Beardsley Sharing Germplasm . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Paul Wallich Digital Dyslexia . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Marguerite Holloway The Satisfaction of Delayed
Gratification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--44
Nevin S. Scrimshaw Iron Deficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--52
Robert F. Curl and
Richard E. Smalley Fullerenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--63
Andrew H. Knoll End of the Proterozoic Eon . . . . . . . 64--73
Harald von Boehmer and
Pawel Kisielow How the Immune System Learns About Self 74--81
Marguerite Holloway and
John Horgan Trends in Environmental Technology:
Soiled Shores . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Peter R. Grant Natural Selection and Darwin's Finches 82--87
Richard P. Binzel and
M. Antonietta Barucci and
Marcello Fulchignoni The Origins of the Asteroids . . . . . . 88--94
Jon Orloff Focused Ion Beams . . . . . . . . . . . 96--101
Marguerite Holloway Soiled Shores . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--116
Marguerite Holloway and
John Horgan Soiled Shores . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Concentration: A Winning Strategy . . . 103
Gary Stix Science and Business: The Light
Fantastic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--121
Gary Stix Don't Change the Channel, Rearrange that
Face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Deborah Erickson Secret Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Elizabeth Corcoran Body Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Gary Stix How's My Driving? . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Paul Wallich and
Elizabeth Corcoran An Illusion of Economic Stability? . . . 125--125
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Concentration:
a Winning Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . 126--128
Philip Morrison Books: Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . 129--133
Anne Eisenberg Essay: Quantum English . . . . . . . . . 134--134
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Red Alert . . . 17--18
Philip Yam Atomic Turn-on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
John Rennie Dyslexia: a Problem of Timing . . . . . 26--26
John Rennie Are Species Specious? . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Tim Beardsley Murder Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Tim Beardsley Big Bang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Russell Ruthen Quantum Pinball . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38
Philip E. Ross Endless Endgame? . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Dennis J. Selkoe Void Protein and Alzheimer's Disease . . 40
John Horgan The Pied Piper of Superstrings . . . . . 42--47
Franklin E. Zimring Firearms, Violence and Public Policy . . 48--54
Hans Gutbrod and
Horst Stöcker The Nuclear Equation of State . . . . . 58--66
Dennis J. Selkoe Amyloid Protein and Alzheimer's Disease 68--78
Dominic Man-Kit Lam and
Bryant W. Rossiter Science in Pictures: Chromoskedasic
Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--85
Dominic Man-Kit Lam and
Bryant W. Rossiter Chromoskedasic Painting . . . . . . . . 80 (Intl. ed. 48--??)
Corey S. Powell Trends in Astronomy: Mirroring the
Cosmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Jack L. Jewell and
James P. Harbison and
Axel Scherer Microlasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--94
Howard Green Cultured Cells for the Treatment of
Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--102
Anonymous Painting in Color without Pigments . . . 98
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Genes, Peoples and Languages . . . . . . 104--110
Corey S. Powell Trends in Astronomy: Mirroring the
Cosmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--123
Corey S. Powell Mirroring the Cosmos . . . . . . . . . . 112
Deborah Erickson Science and Business: Brain, Food . . . 124--126
Deborah Erickson Sustainable Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
Deborah Erickson Skinside Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--130
Deborah Erickson Plastic for the '90s . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
Gary Stix Human Spec Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--133
Paul Wallich No Accounting for Disaster . . . . . . . 134--134
Dominic Man-Kit Lam and
Alexandra J. Baran The Amateur Scientist: Painting in Color
without Pigments . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--137
Philip Morrison Books: Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . 139--143
Donald R. Griffin Essay: Animal Thinking . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Marguerite Holloway Science and the Citizen: High and Dry 16--20
Philip E. Ross Buckytubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
John Rennie The Ig Nobel Prizes . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Tim Beardsley Fatal Flaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Corey S. Powell Star Bursts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Eddie Koch People Preserves . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Tim Beardsley Cross Reaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--57
Gary Stix Smaller World . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--59
John Horgan The Man who Loves Insects . . . . . . . 60--64
Ellen L. Bassuk Homeless Families . . . . . . . . . . . 66--74
Jonathan J. Halliwell Quantum Cosmology and the Creation of
the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--85
P. Wallich Trends in Artificial Intelligence:
Silicon Babies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--91
David W. Golde The Stem Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--93
David Anthony and
Dimitri Y. Telegin and
Dorcas Brown The Origin of Horseback Riding . . . . . 94--100
Anonymous A Short Trek to Infinity . . . . . . . . 100
Israel Dostrovsky Chemical Fuels from the Sun . . . . . . 102--107
Roger S. Seymour The Brush Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--114
Amy Dahan Dalmédico Sophie Germain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--122
Paul Wallich Trends in Artificial Intelligence:
Silicon Babies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--134
Paul Wallich Silicon Babies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Rethinking
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--139
Elizabeth Corcoran Thinking of Machines . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Deborah Erickson Beyond Sympathy . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--141
Gary Stix Seeing is Believing . . . . . . . . . . 142--142
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 143--143
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: a Short Trek
to Infinity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--147
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Books: Science Books for Young People 148--153
Anonymous Annual Index: Annual Index 1991 . . . . 154--157
Nathan Rosenberg Essay: Marx Wasn't All Wrong: Essay:
Marx wasn't all Wrong . . . . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 9--10
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Corey S. Powell Science and the Citizen: Venus Revealed 16--17
Fakhri A. Bazzaz and
Eric D. Fajer Plant Life in a CO$_2$ Rich World . . . 18
John Horgan After the Inferno . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Corey S. Powell Rocky Rendezvous . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Tim Beardsley Report Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Marguerite Holloway Under Construction . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Philip Yam Bonus Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Elizabeth Corcoran Tacky Lasers are the Tiniest yet . . . . 28--28
A. K. Dewdney Turing Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Tim Beardsley Population Pressure . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
John Rennie Inside Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Tim Beardsley A Troubled Homecoming . . . . . . . . . 33--36
Fakhri A. Bazzaz and
Eric D. Fajer Plant Life in a CO$_2$-Rich World . . . 68--74
Fakhri A. Bazzaz and
Eric D. Fajer Plant Life in a $ C O_2 $-Rich World . . 68
Martin C. Gutzwiller Quantum Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--84
Gustav E. Lienhard and
Jan W. Slot and
David E. James and
Mike M. Mueckler How Cells Absorb Glucose . . . . . . . . 86--91
John K. Cannizzo and
Ronald H. Kaitchuck Accretion Disks in Interacting Binary
Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--99
Kenneth J. Lohmann How Sea Turtles Navigate . . . . . . . . 100--106
John Rennie Trends in Parasitology: Living Together 104
R. Brian Ferguson Tribal Warfare . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--113
Emmanuel Desurvire Lightwave Communications: The Fifth
Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--121
Douglas Smith How to Generate Chaos at Home . . . . . 121
John Rennie Trends in Parasitology: Living Together 122--133
John Rennie Living Together . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Deborah Erickson Science and Business: Growing Strong . . 134--142
Gary Stix Explosive Images . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--137
Tim Beardsley Current Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
Elizabeth Corcoran Green Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Gary Stix No Tipping, Please . . . . . . . . . . . 141--141
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich Coping with Math Anxiety . . . . . . . . 142--142
Douglas Smith The Amateur Scientist: How to Generate
Chaos at Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--146
Philip Morrison Books: Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . 147--150
Michael C. Lach Essay: An Inner-City Education . . . . . 151--151
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Early Arrivals 17--20
Tim Beardsley Night Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Corey S. Powell A Confusing Little Ice Age . . . . . . . 21--21
Philip E. Ross New Whoof in Whorf . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
John Horgan The End of Clumpiness? . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Tim Beardsley Shear Bliss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--29
Marguerite Holloway Abyssal Proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
John Rennie Life in the Fast Lane . . . . . . . . . 31--31
John Horgan The Mephistopheles of Neurobiology . . . 32--35
Nathan Caplan and
Marcella H. Choy and
John K. Whitmore Indochinese Refugee Families and
Academic Achievement . . . . . . . . . . 36--42
Patricia Fryer Mud Volcanoes of the Marianas . . . . . 46--52
Lance A. Liotta Cancer Cell Invasion and Metastasis . . 54--63
Gerhard Storch Science in Pictures: The Mammals of
Island Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--69 (Intl. ed. 42)
Steven Chu Laser Trapping of Neutral Particles . . 70--76
Elizabeth Corcoran Trends in Consumer Electronics: Picture
Perfect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Garman Harbottle and
Phil C. Weigand Turquoise in Pre-Columbian America . . . 78--85
Diane B. Paul and
Costas B. Krimbas Nikolai V. Timoféeff-Ressovsky . . . . . 86--92
Ian Stewart The Kissing Number . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Elizabeth Corcoran Trends in Consumer Electronics: Picture
Perfect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--103
Elizabeth Corcoran Picture Perfect . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Gary Stix Science and Business: Riding on Air . . 104--105
Deborah Erickson A Better Red . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Tim Beardsley Making Antisense . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Deborah Erickson It's a Wrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
Gary Stix Further References . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
Paul Wallich and
Elizabeth Corcoran The Discreet Disappearance of the
Bourgeoisie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: The Kissing
Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--115
Philip Morrison Brief: Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . 116--119
Geoffrey Burbidge Essay: Why Only One Big Bang? . . . . . 120--120
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Marguerite Holloway and
Philip Yam Science and the Citizen: Reflecting
Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--18
Elizabeth Corcoran Tuning in Hot Signals . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Tim Beardsley Relative Hunger . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Corey S. Powell Unlikely Places . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Paul Wallich Going through Proper Channels . . . . . 26--26
Tim Beardsley Pointing Fingers . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
John Rennie Trojan Horse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
John Horgan Volcanic Disruption . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Tim Beardsley Add Ozone to the Global Warming Equation 29--29
John Horgan The Lonely Odysseus of Particle Physics 30--32
Jeffrey Sachs Building a Market Economy in Poland . . 34--40
Erwin Neher and
Bert Sakmann The Patch Clamp Technique . . . . . . . 44--51
David N. Spergel and
Neil G. Turok Textures and Cosmic Structure . . . . . 52--59
Jun-ichi Aihara Why Aromatic Compounds Are Stable . . . 62--68
Fritz Vollrath Spider Webs and Silks . . . . . . . . . 70--76
Russell Ruthen Trends in Astrophysics: Catching the
Wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Jerry Silverman and
Jonathan M. Mooney and
Freeman D. Shepherd Infrared Video Cameras . . . . . . . . . 78--83
Timothy Taylor The Gundestrup Cauldron . . . . . . . . 84--89
Russell Ruthen Trends in Astrophysics: Catching the
Wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--99
Donald G. Mooney Seeing Infrared . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Russell Ruthen Catching the Wave . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Holey Silicon . . 102--104
Tim Beardsley Executive Fix . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--106
Tim Beardsley Vested Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Gary Stix Drag Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Gary Stix Objective Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
John Rennie Getting Out the Bugs . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Elizabeth Corcoran Disarming Developments . . . . . . . . . 110--110
Donald G. Mooney The Amateur Scientist: Seeing Infrared 112--113
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--117
Kenneth H. Mayer and
Charles C. J. Carpenter Essay: Women and AIDS . . . . . . . . . 118--119
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Brain Drain . . 17--20
Marguerite Holloway The Plankton Stalkers . . . . . . . . . 20--20
John Rennie First-Class Culprit . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
John Rennie A Census of Stranglers . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Russell Ruthen Vexing Vortices . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
John Horgan D2 or not D2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--32
Corey S. Powel A Second Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Marguerite Holloway Fire in Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--40
Anonymous Debate: Where did Modern Humans
Originate? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--67
Alan G. Thorne and
Milford H. Wolpoff The Multiregional Evolution of Humans 66 (Intl. ed. 28--??)
Allan C. Wilson and
Rebecca L. Cann The Recent African Genesis of Humans . . 68--73
Alan G. Thorne and
Milford H. Wolpoff The Multiregional Evolution of Humans 76--83
J. Brendan Murphy and
R. Damian Nance Mountain Belts and the Supercontinent
Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--91
Howard M. Johnson and
Jeffry K. Russell and
Carol H. Pontzer Superantigens in Human Disease . . . . . 92--101
Deborah Erickson Trends in Genetics: Hacking the Genome 98
Robert W. Conn and
Valery A. Chuyanov and
Nobuyuki Inoue and
Donald R. Sweetman The International Thermonuclear
Experimental Reactor . . . . . . . . . . 102--110 (Intl. ed. 74--80)
Sir John Meurig Thomas Solid Acid Catalysts . . . . . . . . . . 112--118 (Intl. ed. 82)
Ian Stewart All Paths Lead away from Rome . . . . . 113(??)
Ronald Melzack Phantom Limbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--125
Deborah Erickson Trends in Genetics: Hacking the Genome 128--137
Deborah Erickson Hacking the Genome . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Charlotte's Patent 138--140
Gary Stix Desktop Artisans . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Elizabeth Corcoran Avoiding the Potholes on Optical
Highways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Tim Beardsley Waste Not\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
Gary Stix Ballpark Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--146
Gary Stix Helping the Little Guy Buy a Computer 146--146
Paul Wallich and
Elizabeth Corcoran Compensation beyond the Call of Duty . . 147--147
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: All Paths Lead
away from Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--152
Philip Morrison Brief: Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . 154--159
Richard Elliot Benedick Essay: a Case of Déj\`a Vu . . . . . . . 160--160
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Better Care,
Less Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--20
Paul Wallich Is it History or just E-Mail? . . . . . 20--20
Philip Yam Forbidden Light . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--28
Corey S. Powell Born Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
John Horgan Life in a Test Tube? . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
John Rennie Mutable Mutation . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
John Horgan Trying Transmutation . . . . . . . . . . 36--53
John Horgan Japan, Cold Fusion and Lyndon LaRouche 53--53
Marguerite Holloway The Builder of Bridges . . . . . . . . . 56--57
Roy M. Anderson and
Robert M. May Understanding the AIDS Pandemic . . . . 58--66
Solomon H. Snyder and
David S. Bredt Biological Roles of Nitric Oxide . . . . 68--77
Philip E. Ross Trends in Molecular Archaeology:
Eloquent Remains . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Noam Soker Planetary Nebulae . . . . . . . . . . . 78--88
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Science in Pictures: Blind Spots . . . . 86--94
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Blind Spots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 (Intl. ed. 44--49)
James B. Kaler Watching the Death of a Star . . . . . . 89
Wilfrid B. Veldkamp and
Thomas J. McHugh Binary Optics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--97 (Intl. ed. 50--55)
John Terborgh Why American Songbirds Are Vanishing . . 98--104
David C. Cassidy Heisenberg, Uncertainty and the Quantum
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--112 (Intl. ed. 64)
Philip E. Ross Trends in Molecular Archaeology:
Eloquent Remains . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--125
Philip E. Ross Eloquent Remains . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Gary Stix Science and Business: Electric Car Pool 126--127
Gary Stix Frothing a Raindrop . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Deborah Erickson Relative Lightweights . . . . . . . . . 128--129
Deborah Erickson Demonic Toxin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
Tim Beardsley Business at Rio . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
Gary Stix Village Pharmacy . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich Overcoming the Short-Term Syndrome . . . 133--133
James B. Kaler The Amateur Scientist: Watching the
Death of a Star . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--136
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--142
Anne Eisenberg Essay: Metaphor in the Language of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Anne Eisenberg Does metaphor impede or enrich
scientific discourse? . . . . . . . . . 144
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letter to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Marguerite Holloway Science and the Citizen: Still
Negotiating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--19
John Rennie The Mice that Missed . . . . . . . . . . 20--26
Marguerite Holloway The Estrogen Factor . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Tim Beardsley Weird Wonders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--34
Corey S. Powell Astronomical Austerity . . . . . . . . . 34--36
Russell Ruthen A Switch with the Right Spin . . . . . . 36--36
Tim Beardsley Scientist, Administrator, Role Model . . 40--41
Eric J. Chaisson Early Results from the Hubble Space
Telescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--51
Richard M. Lawn Lipoprotein (a) in Heart Disease . . . . 54--60
Charles S. Gasser and
Robert T. Fraley Transgenic Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--69
Patricia Rieff Anawalt and
Frances F. Berdan The Codex Mendoza . . . . . . . . . . . 70--79
Elizabeth Corcoran Trends in Industrial Research:
Redesigning Research . . . . . . . . . . 72
Konstantin K. Likharev and
Tord Claeson Single Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . 80--85 (Intl. ed. 50--55)
William G. Winkler and
Konrad Bögel Control of Rabies in Wildlife . . . . . 86--91
Ian Stewart The Riddle of the Vanishing Camel . . . 88
Robert Repetto Accounting for Environmental Assets . . 94--100
Elizabeth Corcoran Trends in Industrial Research:
Redesigning Research . . . . . . . . . . 102--110
Elizabeth Corcoran Redesigning Research . . . . . . . . . . 102
Deborah Erickson Science and Business: Genes to Order . . 112--114
Deborah Erickson Getting Agricultural Biotech off the RAC 115--115
Paul Wallich Tap Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116
Gary stix Joy of Cooking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Tim Beardsley Fuelish Study? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Gary Stix Stained Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--119
Paul Wallich and
Elizabeth Corcoran The MBAs of Summer . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: The Riddle of
the Vanishing Camel . . . . . . . . . . 122--124
Philip Morrison Brief: Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . 126--131
Peter W. Huber Essay: Junk Science in the Courtroom . . 132--132
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 1942: Physicists are the fair-haired
boys of World War II . . . . . . . . . . 14
Corey S. Powell Science and the Citizen: The Golden Age
of Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--22
Tim Beardsley Galling the Bears . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Philip E. Ross Compulsive Canines . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Tim Beardsley DNA Fingerprinting Reconsidered (Again) 26--26
John Rennie Mother's Little Favorite . . . . . . . . 26--28
Tim Beardsley Colliding Physicists . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Paul J. Fagan and
Michael D. Ward Building Molecular Crystals . . . . . . 28
Philip Yam Sound System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
John Rennie Defining Dyslexia . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
Paul Wallich Rapid Recall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
John Hargon COBE's Cosmic Cartographer . . . . . . . 34--41
Richard H. Grove Origins of Western Environmentalism . . 42--47
Paul J. Fagan and
Michael D. Ward Building Molecular Crystals . . . . . . 48--54
Maurine E. Under and
Alfred G. Gilman G Proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--65
Maurine E. Linder and
Alfred G. Gilman G Proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 (Intl. ed. 36--??)
John H. Holland Genetic Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 66--72 (Intl. ed. 44--50)
John Horgan Trends in Physics: Quantum Philosophy 72
Michael Phillips Breath Tests in Medicine . . . . . . . . 74--79
William E. Duellman Reproductive Strategies of Frogs . . . . 80--87
Nicholas Toth and
Desmond Clark and
Giancarlo Ligabue The Last Stone Ax Makers . . . . . . . . 88--93
Rick L. Riolo Survival of the Finest Bits . . . . . . 89
John Horgan Trends in Physics: Quantum Philosophy 94--104
John Horgan Quantum Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Tim Beardsley Science and Business: Piecemeal Patents 106--108
Elizabeth Corcoran U.S. Semiconductor Toolmakers Regain
Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Elizabeth Corcoran One Fish, Two Fish . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Deborah Erickson Sensible Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
Deborah Erickson Metastatic Machinations . . . . . . . . 110--111
Russell Ruthen Fickle Fluids . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
Deborah Erickson Machine Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich Doubling up on Payoffs for Schooling . . 113--113
Rick L. Riolo The Amateur Scientist: Survival of the
Fittest Bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--116
Stephen Jay Gould Book Reviews: Book Review . . . . . . . 118--121
Stephen Jay Gould Retrying the monkey trial in a kangaroo
court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Anne Eisenberg Essay: Women and the Discourse of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
Anne Eisenberg Sexism still lurks in the language of
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Aborting
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
John Rennie Entomophagy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
John Horgan Counting Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
John Horgan Plenty of Nothing . . . . . . . . . . . 23--26
Corey S. Powell A Rare Glimpse of a Dim World . . . . . 24--24
Philip E. Ross East of Eden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Russell Ruthen Particle Goddess . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
Deborah Erickson Sea Sick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
John Rennie Keeping it in the Family . . . . . . . . 43--44
John J. Dvorak and
Carl Johnson and
Robert I. Tilling Dynamics of Kilauea Volcano . . . . . . 46--53
Ernst Theodor Rietschel and
Helmut Brade Bacterial Endotoxins . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
Stephen G. Brush How Cosmology Became a Science . . . . . 62--70
Paul W. Sherman and
Jennifer U. M. Jarvis and
Stanton H. Braude Naked Mole Rats . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--78
Ian Tattersall Science in Pictures: Evolution Comes to
Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--87
Ian Tattersall Evolution Comes to Life . . . . . . . . 80 (Intl. ed. 62--??)
Gary Stix Trends in Transportation: Air Trains . . 84
Diana Deutsch Paradoxes of Musical Pitch . . . . . . . 88--95
David Chaum Achieving Electronic Privacy . . . . . . 96--101
Ian Stewart The Interplanetary Olympics . . . . . . 101
Gary Stix Trends in Transportation: Air Trains . . 102--113
Gary Stix Air Trains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Deborah Erickson Science and Business: Material Help . . 114--116
Elizabeth Corcoran Hopscotch Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--118
Deborah Erickson Biotechnology for Sale, Cheap . . . . . 117--117
Philip E. Ross Seven-League Boots . . . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Gary Stix Check it Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
Deborah Erickson Doomsday Diagnostic? . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Paul Wallich Experimenting with the Invisible Hand 121--121
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: The
Interplanetary Olympics . . . . . . . . 122--124
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--131
Lawrence Summers Essay: The Most Influential Investment 132--132
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Drew van Camp Neurons for Computers . . . . . . . . . 12S
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Gravity
Quantized? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 18
John Horgan It Came from Within . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Marguerite Holloway Hot Ants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Philip Yam Noisy Nucleotides . . . . . . . . . . . 23--27
John Rennie Bug in a Gilded Cage . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Elizabeth Corcoran Making Water Run Uphill . . . . . . . . 28--28
Corey S. Powell Bent Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Marguerite Holloway Population Pressure . . . . . . . . . . 32--38
A. K. Dewdney Photovores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Russell Ruthen The Frustrations of a Quark Hunter . . . 44--46
Gerald D. Fischbach Mind and Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--57
Carla J. Shatz The Developing Brain . . . . . . . . . . 60--67
Semir Zeki The Visual Image in Mind and Brain . . . 68--76
Patricia S. Gold-Rakic Working Memory and the Mind . . . . . . 72
Eric R. Kandel and
Robert D. Hawkins The Biological Basis of Learning and
Individuality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--86
Antonio R. Damasio and
Hanna Damasio Brain and Language . . . . . . . . . . . 88--95
Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic Working Memory and the Mind . . . . . . 110--117
Doreen Kimura Sex Differences in the Brain . . . . . . 118--125
Elliot S. Gershon and
Ronald O. Rieder Major Disorders of Mind and Brain . . . 126--133
Dennis J. Selkoe Aging Brain, Aging Mind . . . . . . . . 134--142
Geoffrey E. Hinton How Neural Net Works Learn from
Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--151
Francis Crick and
Christof Koch The Problem of Consciousness . . . . . . 152--159
Deborah Erickson Science and Business: Hot Potato . . . . 160--162
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 160
Anonymous Major Developers of Genetically
Engineered Foods . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Deborah Erickson Silver Lining . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Deborah Erickson The Hole Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--164
Deborah Erickson Underground Allies . . . . . . . . . . . 164--164
Gary Stix Defensive Driving . . . . . . . . . . . 164--166
Gary Stix See-Through View . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--166
Elizabeth Corcoran Economic Growth Factors . . . . . . . . 167--167
Drew van Camp The Amateur Scientist: Neurons for
Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--172
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--179
Jonathan Miller Essay: Trouble in Mind . . . . . . . . . 180--180
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Ian Stewart Murder at Ghastleigh Grange . . . . . . 9S
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and the Citizen: The Edge of
Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--22
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 17
Elizabeth Corcoran The Best Little Yard Sale in New Mexico 18--18
John Horgan Lying by the Book . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Marguerite Holloway Musseling In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Paul Wallich Smart Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
John Rennie Formula for Diabetes? . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Corey S. Powell A Matter of Timing . . . . . . . . . . . 26--31
Russell Ruthen The Cosmic Microwave Mirage? . . . . . . 30--30
John Horgan Illuminator of the Stars . . . . . . . . 32--40
Robert M. May How Many Species in Habit the Earth? . . 42--48
Charles H. Bennett and
Gilles Brassard and
Artur K. Ekert Quantum Cryptography . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
Charles S. Houston Mountain Sickness . . . . . . . . . . . 58--66
Michael Grunstein Histones as Regulators of Genes . . . . 68--74
Philip J. DeVries Singing Caterpillars, Ants and Symbiosis 76--82
Tim Beardsley Trends in Science Education: Teaching
Real Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Michael W. Geis and
John C. Angus Diamond Film Semiconductors . . . . . . 84--89
Robert J. Blumenschine and
John A. Cavallo Scavenging and Human Evolution . . . . . 90--96
Tim Beardsley Trends in Science Education: Teaching
Real Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--108
Tim Beardsley Teaching Real Science . . . . . . . . . 98
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Storage Space . . 110--112
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 110
Philip E. Ross Different Strokes . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
Elizabeth Corcoran Orphan Isotopes . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
Tim Beardsley Fine Grain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Philip E. Ross Billions of Buckytubes . . . . . . . . . 115--116
Deborah Erickson Diagnosis by DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Paul Wallich The Business of Education . . . . . . . 117--117
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Murder at
Ghastleigh Grange . . . . . . . . . . . 118--120
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 118
Philip Morrison Books: Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . 122--127
Anonymous Books: The islanders who greeted
Columbus; Zen astronomy . . . . . . . . 122
Gerard Piel Essay: Agenda 21: Sustainable
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Essay: Gerard Piel: An important
starting point for managing Planet Earth 128
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Declassified 16--18
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 16
Tim Beardsley Paradise Lost? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Tim Beardsley Bringing Science to the Bottom Line . . 20--20
John Rennie Cells for Jerry's Kids . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Rashi Fein Health Care Forum . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Corey S. Powell Flotsam Footwear . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Corey S. Powell Stellar Bells . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Philip E. Ross Who were the Indo-Europeans? . . . . . . 28--28
Wendy L. Freed The Expansion, Rate and Size of the
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Tim Beardsley Desert Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--36
Elizabeth Corcoran Kicking Chaos out of Lasers . . . . . . 36--36
John Horgan The Intellectual Warrior . . . . . . . . 38--44
Rashi Fein Health Care Reform . . . . . . . . . . . 46--53
Wendy L. Freedman The Expansion Rate and Size of the
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--60
Joseph H. Greenberg and
Merritt Ruhlen Linguistic Origins of Native Americans 60
Bev Littlewood and
Lorenzo Strigini The Risks of Software . . . . . . . . . 62--75
Gary Stix Trends in Micromechanics: Micron
Machinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Arthur J. Olson and
David S. Goodsell Science in Pictures: Visualizing
Biological Molecules . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
Arthur J. Olson and
David S. Goodsell Visualizing Biological Molecules . . . . 76 (Intl. ed. 44--47, 50--51)
Jeffrey S. Levinton The Big Bang of Animal Evolution . . . . 84--91
Joseph H. Greenberg and
Merritt Ruhlen Linguistic Origins of Native Americans 94--99
Owen Gingerich Astronomy in the Age of Columbus . . . . 100--105
Gary Stix Trends in Micromechanics: Micron
Machinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--117
Gary Stix Micron Machinations . . . . . . . . . . 106
Elizabeth Corcoran Science and Business: Building Networks 118--120
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 118
Philip Yam Cool Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Elizabeth Corcoran Semiready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Deborah Erickson Intercepted Messages . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
Deborah Erickson Intuitive Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--125
Marguerite Holloway and
Paul Wallich A Risk Worth Taking . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
George A. Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Sighting Cepheid
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--130
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 128
Philip Morrison Books: Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . 132--137
Anonymous Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Michael Schulhof Essay: Why Business Needs Scientists . . 138--138
Michael Schulhof Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14
John Horgan Special Year-End Section: The New
Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--22
Anonymous New Challenges for 1993 . . . . . . . . 16
Philip Yam Theoretical Resistance . . . . . . . . . 24--24
John Rennie Essential but Expendable . . . . . . . . 25--28
Elizabeth Corcoran Racing Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--36
Philip E. Ross Shaking the Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38
Russell Ruthen Puzzling Powerhouse . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
Tim Beardsley Quantum Dissidents . . . . . . . . . . . 39--40
Tim Beardsley Cambrian Jolt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--42
Tim Beardsley Cellular Response . . . . . . . . . . . 42--44
Elizabeth Corcoran Thinking Green . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--46
Gary Stix Running Hot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--48
Gary Stix Finding Fault . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--52
Marguerite Holloway Unlikely Messengers . . . . . . . . . . 52--56
Harold W. Stevenson Learning from Asian Schools . . . . . . 70--76
Gerald Gabrielse Extremely Cold Antiprotons . . . . . . . 78--89
Ricki L. Rusting Trends in Biology: Why Do We Age? . . . 86
Gerald F. Joyce Directed Molecular Evolution . . . . . . 90--97
Ian Stewart Christmas in the House of Chaos . . . . 96
I. Bernard Cohen What Columbus ``Saw'' in 1492 . . . . . 100--106
Robert T. Sataloff The Human Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--115
Vernon L. Smith and
Arlington W. Williams Experimental Market Economics . . . . . 116--121
Robert M. Seyfarth and
Dorothy L. Cheney Meaning and Mind in Monkeys . . . . . . 122--128
Ricki L. Rusting Trends in Biology: Why do we Age? . . . 130--141
Ricki L. Rusting Why Do We Age? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Christmas in
the House of Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . 144--146
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 144
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Book Reviews: Science Books for Young
People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Anonymous Annual Index: Annual Index 1992 . . . . 158--161
Anne Eisenberg Essay: Imperial English: The Language of
Science? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anne Eisenberg Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Antarctic
Meltdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--28
John Horgan Are Scientists Too Messy for Antarctica? 22--23
Marguerite Holloway Lethal Cascade . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
John Rennie Noah's Freezer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Corey S. Powell Young Suns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Russell Ruthen Quark Quest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
John Horgan Stubbornly Ahead of his Time . . . . . . 36--40
Kenneth F. Dunker and
Basile G. Rabbat Why America's bridges are Crumbling . . 66--72
Marek Artur Abramowicz Black Holes and the Centrifugal Force
Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--81
Thierry Boon Teaching the Immune System to Fight
Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--89
Steven W. Depp and
Webster E. Howard Flat-Panel Displays . . . . . . . . . . 90--97
James H. Tumlinson and
W. Joe Lewis and
Louise E. M. Vet How Parasitic Wasps Find their Hosts . . 100--106
Sophie A. de Beaune and
Randall White Ice Age Lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--113
Michael Goulding Flooded Forests of the Amazon . . . . . 114--120
John Rennie Trends in Genetics: DNA's New Twists . . 122--132
W. Wayt Gibbs Science and Business: Back to Basics . . 134--136
W. Wayt Gibbs Preventing the Preventable . . . . . . . 135--135
John Rennie No Snake Oil Here . . . . . . . . . . . 136--138
Philip Yam High on Gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--140
Gary Stix and
Tom Koppel Headsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--141
Paul Wallich and
Marguerite Holloway More Profitable to Give than to Receive? 142--142
Janet M. Strong-Gunderson The Amateur Scientist: Flight-Testing
Fruit Flies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--145
Robert M. May Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--149
Otto E. Landman Essay: Inheritance of Acquired
Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--150
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14
John Rennie Science and the Citizen: How Many Genes
and Y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 16
Philip E. Ross Endangered Genes . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Marguerite Holloway Pitohui! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Paul Wallich Crunching Epsilon . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Philip Yam A Gene for Hypertension . . . . . . . . 24--24
Gary Stix Anything Goes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Corey S. Powell Machos or Wimps? . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Shawna Vogel and
J. Rennie Booby Prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Marguerite Holloway Profile: Rita Levi-Montalcini . . . . . 32--36
Barbara E. Brown and
John C. Ogden Coral Bleaching . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--70
Sidney van den Bergh and
James E. Hesser How the Milky Way Formed . . . . . . . . 72--78
Nathan Sharon and
Halina Lis Carbohydrates in Cell Recognition . . . 82--89
Derek York The Earliest History of the Earth . . . 90--96
Ian Tattersall Madagascar's Lemurs . . . . . . . . . . 110--117
Russell Ruthen Trends in Nonlinear Dynamics: Adapting
to Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Ian Tattersall Madagascar's Lemurs . . . . . . . . . . 110 (Intl. ed. 90--??)
Mark A. Reed Quantum Dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--123
Peter M. Milner The Mind and Donald O. Hebb . . . . . . 124--129
Henry S. Horn Biodiversity in the Backyard . . . . . . 125
Russell Ruthen Adapting to Complexity . . . . . . . . . 130--140
Gary Stix Science and Business: Back to Roots . . 142--143
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 142
Elizabeth Corcoran National Conundrums . . . . . . . . . . 144--145
Elizabeth Corcoran Soft Lego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--146
Gary Stix Habeas Corpus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--147
Gary Stix Geometry Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Elizabeth Corcoran The Return on Infrastructure . . . . . . 148--148
Henry S. Horn The Amateur Scientist: Biodiversity in
the Backyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--152
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 150
Philip Morrison Book Reviews: Heavenly Objects . . . . . 154--159
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Howard M. Johnson Essay: The Life of a Black Scientist . . 160--160
Howard M. Johnson Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 16
Corey S. Powell Science and the Citizen: Livable Planets 18--20
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 18
John Horgan What if they don't have radios? . . . . 20--20
John Horgan COBE Corroborated . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Philip E. Ross Faux Fullerenes . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
John Horgan Genes and Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--29
John Horgan The Artist, the Physicist and the
Waterfall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Paul Wallich Electronic Envelopes? . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Tim Beardsley Making Waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Elizabeth Corcoran The Physicist as a Young Businessman . . 34--35
Thomas F. Homer-Dixon and
Jeffrey H. Boutwell and
George W. Rathjens Environmental Change and Violent
Conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--45
David J. Bishop and
Peter L. Gammel and
David A. Huse Resistance in High-Temperature
Superconductors . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
Daniela Rhodes and
Aaron Klug Zinc Fingers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--65
Roald Hoffmann How Should Chemists Think? . . . . . . . 66--73
Tim Beardsley Trends in Russian Science: Selling to
Survive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
George Rickey Science in Pictures: a Technology of
Kinetic Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--79
George Rickey A Technology of Kinetic Art . . . . . . 74 (Intl. ed. 50--??)
Elaine Tuomanen Breaching the Blood-Brain Barrier . . . 80--84
Ian Stewart A Partly True Story . . . . . . . . . . 85
Doron D. Swade Redeeming Charles Babbage's Mechanical
Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--91
Tim Beardsley Trends in Russian Science: Selling to
Survive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--100
Tim Beardsley Selling to Survive . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Gary Stix Science and Business: Zip Code Breakers 102--103
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 102
Philip Yam Surreal Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
Tom Koppel Lightning Lure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--105
Elizabeth Corcoran Learning Companies . . . . . . . . . . . 105--108
Gary Stix Shell Shocked . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Elizabeth Corcoran The Analytical Economist: Soul of a New
Economic Idea? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: a Partly True
Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--112
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 110
Nathan Keyfitz Book Review: The Preservation of the
Planet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--119
Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
David C. Cassidy Essay: Germany and the Bomb: New
Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
David C. Cassidy Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 19
Kenneth F. Dunker and
Basile G. Rabbat Why America's Bridges are Crumbling . . 66 (Intl. ed. 18--??)
Marek Artur Abramowicz Black Holes and the Centrifugal Force
Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 (Intl. ed. 26--??)
Thierry Boon Teaching the Immune System to Fight
Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 (Intl. ed. 32--??)
John Rennie Trends in Genetics: DNA's New Twists . . 88
Steven W. Depp and
Webster E. Howard Flat-Panel Displays . . . . . . . . . . 90 (Intl. ed. 40--??)
James H. Tumlinson and
W. Joe Lewis and
Louise E. M. Vet How Parasitic Wasps Find Their Hosts . . 100 (Intl. ed. 46--??)
Janet M. Strong Gunderson Flight-Testing Fruit Flies . . . . . . . 106
Sophie A. de Beaune and
Randall White Ice Age Lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 (Intl. ed. 74--??)
Michael Goulding Flooded Forests of the Amazon . . . . . 114 (Intl. ed. 80--??)
John Rennie DNA's New Twist . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 134
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 144
Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Otto E. Landman Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 16
Marguerite Holloway Science and the Citizen: Obstacle Course 18--24
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 18
M. H. Easing a Financial Gag . . . . . . . . . 22--22
John Horgan An Eternally Self-Reproducing Cosmos? 24--24
Russell Ruthen Flat Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
John Rennie Kitty, we shrunk your Brain . . . . . . 29--29
John Rennie Spot Marks the X . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
Russell Ruthen Illuminating Zero . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Philip E. Ross Ancient Sleepers . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Corey S. Powell Asteroid Hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--40
John Horgan The Nicest Guy in Washington . . . . . . 42--43
S. Jay Olshansky and
Bruce A. Carnes and
Christine K. Cassel The Aging of the Human Species . . . . . 46--52
Serge Haroche and
Jean Michel Raimond Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics . . . . . 54--62
Masakazu Konishi Listening With Two Ears . . . . . . . . 66--73
Gary Stix Trends in Materials: Concrete Solutions 72
Cynthia M. Friend Catalysis on Surfaces . . . . . . . . . 74--79 (Intl. ed. 42)
Gerard J. FitzGerald The Reproductive Behavior of the
Stickleback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--85
Paul W. Ewald The Evolution of Virulence . . . . . . . 86--93
Ian Stewart The Rise and Fall of the Lunar M-Pire 90
Ofer Bar-Yosef and
Bernard Vandermeersch Modern Humans in the Levant . . . . . . 94--100
Gary Stix Trends in Materials: Concrete Solutions 102--112
Gary Stix Concrete Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Gary Stix Science and Business: High Technology 113--114
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 113
G. S. Advertising Space . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Tim Beardsley Virtuous Viruses . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116
W. Wayt Gibbs Light Motif . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Tim Beardsley Putting the Brakes on Tankers . . . . . 117--117
Robert Service Global View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Elizabeth Corcoran and
Paul Wallich Frequent Flaps in the Deregulated Skies 119--119
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: The Rise and
Fall of the Lunar M-pire . . . . . . . . 120--121
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 120
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--127
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Anne Eisenberg Essay: Scientists in the Movies . . . . 128--128
Anne Eisenberg Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 16
John Rennie Science and the Citizen: Triple Whammy 18--22
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 18
John Rennie Balanced Immunity . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Tim Beardsley Honest Advertising . . . . . . . . . . . 24--27
Corey S. Powell Three Faces of Venus . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Russell Ruthen Attractive and Demure . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Paul Wallich Make, Model and\ldots . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Philip Yam ``Daisy, Daisy'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
John Horgan The Worst Enemy of Science . . . . . . . 36--37
Amartya Sen The Economics of Life and Death . . . . 40--47
Raymond Jeanloz and
Thorne Lay The Core Mantle Boundary . . . . . . . . 48--55
William J. Welch How Cells Respond to Stress . . . . . . 56--64
Corey S. Powell Trends in Astrophysics: Inconstant
Cosmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Yoshihito Osada and
Simon B. Ross-Murphy Intelligent Gels . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--87
Karen Jescavage-Bernard and
Anders Crofoot Mapping to Preserve a Watershed . . . . 85
Denis Wood Science in Pictures: The Power of Maps 88--93
Denis Wood The Power of Maps . . . . . . . . . . . 88 (Intl. ed. 48--??)
Ned H. Kalin The Neurobiology of Fear . . . . . . . . 94--101
R. Corby Hovis and
Helge Kragh P. A. M. Dirac and the Beauty of Physics 104--109
Corey S. Powell Trends in Astrophysics: Inconstant
Cosmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--118
Corey S. Powell Inconstant Cosmos . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Gary Stix Science and Business: Gigabit Gestalt 122--126
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 122
Tim Beardsley Silicon Glen's Semi-Success . . . . . . 124--124
Tim Beardsley Bright Opportunity . . . . . . . . . . . 126--128
W. Wayt Gibbs Three Swings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129
W. Wayt Gibbs Garbage in, Gravel out . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Judith Fields and
Paul Wallich Why do some Industries Pay Better? . . . 131--131
Karen Jescavage-Bernard and
Anders Crofoot The Amateur Scientist: Mapping to
Preserve a Watershed . . . . . . . . . . 134--136
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 134
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--142
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
W. Brian Arthur Essay: Why Do Things Become More
Complex? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
W. Brian Arthur Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 9--13
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years ago . . . . . . . . . . 16
Philip E. Ross Science and the Citizen: Living Cure . . 18--23
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 18
Philip Yam A Bus for Scotty . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Tim Beardsley Ecolocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--32
Fred Guterl Mr. Clinton, Put Down that Watering Can 28--28
John Rennie SNAPs and SNAREs . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Corey S. Powell Cosmic Diagnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
John Rennie David's Victory . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Paul Wallich Time Warp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Marguerite Holloway A Powerful Voice for Women . . . . . . . 36--40
Henry N. Pollack and
David S. Chapman Underground Records of Changing Climate 44--50
George K. Miley and
Kenneth C. Chambers The Most Distant Radio Galaxies . . . . 54--61
David M. Glover and
Cayetano Gonzalez and
Jordan W. Raff The Centrosome . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--68
Robert W. Keyes The Future of the Transistor . . . . . . 70--78
John Horgan Trends in Behavioral Genetics: Eugenics
Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
C. Sue Carter and
Lowell L. Getz Monogamy and the Prairie Vole . . . . . 100--106
Uta Frith Autism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--114
Ian Stewart A Bundling Fool Beats the Wrap . . . . . 109
Hans Ulrich Vogel The Great Well of China . . . . . . . . 116--121
John Horgan Trends in Behavioral Genetics: Eugenics
Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--131
John Horgan Eugenics Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Gary Stix Science and Business: Red-Banner Burger 132--135
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 132
Philip Yam Is that Shirt Ascorbic Acid? . . . . . . 134--135
W. Wayt Gibbs Extinguished . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
W. Wayt Gibbs Making Wavelets . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
Gary Stix Micromachine Line . . . . . . . . . . . 138--138
Philip Yam ``Plastics, Benjamin\ldots'' . . . . . . 140--140
Paul Wallich Are Economy Watchers Chasing a Mirage? 141--141
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: a Bundling
Fool Beats the Wrap . . . . . . . . . . 142--144
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 142
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--151
George E. Brown, Jr. Essay: Can Scientists ``Make Change
their Friend''? . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--152
George E. Brown, Jr. Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 YEARS AGO . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12
Marguerite Holloway Science and the Citizen: The Big Nada? 20--21
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 20
Corey S. Powell Moonball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--23
W. Wayt Gibbs Banzai! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Philip Yam QED for QCD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
John Horgan A Kinder War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
John Rennie Healing Hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Tim Beardsley Profile: Irving S. Shapiro: Science's
Unscientific Champion . . . . . . . . . 28--29
M. Granger Morgan Risk Analysis and Management . . . . . . 32--41
Manfred Eigen Viral Quasispecies . . . . . . . . . . . 42--49
Patricia Vickers-Rich and
Thomas Hewitt Rich Australia's Polar Dinosaurs . . . . . . 50--55
Wayne M. Itano and
Norman F. Ramsey Accurate Measurement of Time . . . . . . 56--65
Alden H. Harken Surgical Treatment of Cardiac
Arrhythmias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--74
Bart Kosko and
Satoru Isaka Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
Marguerite Holloway Trends in Environmental Science:
Sustaining the Amazon . . . . . . . . . 76
Bart Kosko and
Satoru Isaka Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 (Intl. ed. 62--??)
Donald E. Osterbrock and
Joel A. Gwinn and
Ronald S. Brashear Edwin Hubble and the Expanding Universe 84--89
Marguerite Hollowaystaff writer Trends in Environmental Science:
Sustaining the Amazon . . . . . . . . . 90--99
Marguerite Holloway Sustaining the Amazon . . . . . . . . . 90
Ian Stewart The Topological Dressmaker . . . . . . . 93
W. Wayt Gibbs Science and Business: Try, Try Again . . 101--103
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 101
Tim Beardsley Putting a Spin on Parasites . . . . . . 103--103
Gary Stix Earcons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--107
Tim Beardsley Keeping the Sun Shining on British
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
W. Wayt Gibbs Practical Fractal . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Paul Wallich and
Marguerite Holloway The Analytical Economist: Health Care
without Perverse Incentives . . . . . . 109--109
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: The
Topological Dressmaker . . . . . . . . . 110--112
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 110
Gerard Piel Book Review: Can History Stop Repeating
itself? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--118
Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Ralph Gomory and
Hirsh Cohen Essay: Science: How much is Enough? . . 120--120
Ralph Gomory and
Hirsh Cohen Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12
John Rennie Science and the Citizen: Who is Normal? 14--17
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 14
Tim Beardsley But He'd have to Leave the Cigars Behind 16--16
Russell Ruthen Strange Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Marguerite Holloway Sound Science? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Corey S. Powell Fast Moves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
John Horgan Off to an Early Start . . . . . . . . . 24--24
John Horgan Culture Clash . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
John Horgan Profile: Freeman J. Dyson: Perpendicular
to the Mainstream . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Frank Von Hippel and
Marvin Miller and
Harold Feiveson and
Anatoli Diakov and
Frans Berkhout Eliminating Nuclear Warheads . . . . . . 44--49
Raymond Y. Chiao and
Paul G. Kwiat and
Aephraim M. Steinberg Faster Than Light? . . . . . . . . . . . 52--60
Ronald H. Schwartz T Cell Anergy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--71
David F. Malin Science in Pictures: a Universe of Color 72--77
David F. Malin A Universe of Color . . . . . . . . . . 72 (Intl. ed. 56--??)
William L. Ditto and
Louis M. Pecora Mastering Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--84
Gary Stix Trends in Communications: Domesticating
Cyberspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Katharine Milton Diet and Primate Evolution . . . . . . . 86--93
Roger M. Macklis The Great Radium Scandal . . . . . . . . 94--99
Gary Stix Trends in Communications: Domesticating
Cyberspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--110
Gary Stix Domesticating Cyberspace . . . . . . . . 100
Joseph Neff and
Thomas L. Carroll Circuits that Get Chaos in Sync . . . . 101
W. Wayt Gibbs Science and Business: Body English . . . 112--115
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 112
Gary Stix ``I'll Trade you a Wallaroo for an
Aardvark\ldots'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Tim Beardsley Blood Money? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--117
Paul Wallich Clipper Runs Aground . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
W. Wayt Gibbs Blue Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Philip Yam A Gem of a Catalyst . . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Judith Fields and
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist: Will
Deregulation Save the Banks? . . . . . . 119--119
Joseph Neff and
Thomas L. Carroll The Amateur Scientist: Circuits That Get
Chaos in Sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--122
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 120
Philip Morrison Book Reviews: Matters of the Heart . . . 124--127
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Anne Eisenberg Essay: Keeping Up with Computerese . . . 128--128
Anne Eisenberg Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Tim Beardsley and
Russell Ruthen Science and the Citizen: Super Trouble 20--24
Anonymous Science and the citizen . . . . . . . . 20
Kristin Leutwyler Shaking Conventional Wisdom . . . . . . 24--24
Corey S. Powell Jovian Jolt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
John Horgan Fermat's MacGuffin . . . . . . . . . . . 30--34
John Rennie Malignant Mimicry . . . . . . . . . . . 34--38
Tim Beardsley Fads and Feds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--44
Philip Yam Profile: Richard E. Smalley: The
All-Star of Buckyball . . . . . . . . . 46--48
Sir Gustav J. V. Nossal Life, Death and the Immune System . . . 52--62
Irving L. Weissman and
Max D. Cooper How the Immune System Develops . . . . . 64--71
Charles A. Janeway, Jr. How the Immune System Recognizes
Invaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--79
Philippa Marrack and
John W. Kappler How the Immune System Recognizes the
Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--89
William E. Paul Infectious Diseases and the Immune
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--97
Warner C. Greene AIDS and the Immune System . . . . . . . 98--105
Lawrence Steinman Autoimmune Disease . . . . . . . . . . . 106--114
Lawrence M. Lichtenstein Allergy and the Immune System . . . . . 116--124
Ian Stewart A Shepherd Takes a Sheep Shot . . . . . 118
Hans Wigzell The Immune System as a Therapeutic Agent 126--134
Avrion Mitchison Will We Survive? . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--144
W. Wayt Gibbs Science and Business: Crystal Light . . 146--147
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 146
Gary Stix Contented Cows? . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Fred Guterl and
Robert Pattonin Tokyo and
Gary Stix Tr\`es Grande Alliance . . . . . . . . . 148--149
W. Wayt Gibbs In Vitro, in the Money . . . . . . . . . 150--150
W. Wayt Gibbs Natural Selection . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
Gary Stix Blackballing the Inner City . . . . . . 152--152
Marguerite Holloway and
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist: The Greening
of Garbage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: a Shepherd
Takes a Sheep Shot . . . . . . . . . . . 154--156
Philip Morrison Book Reviews: Monticello Redux . . . . . 158--163
Barry R. Bloom Essay: Immunology and Reciprocity . . . 164--164
Barry R. Bloom Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12
Marguerite Holloway Science and the Citizen: Hard Times . . 14--16
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 14
W. Wayt Gibbs Sentries and Saboteurs . . . . . . . . . 16--24
W. Wayt Gibbs Creative Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Tim Beardsley Never Give a Sucker an Even Break . . . 22--22
Tim Beardsley Sharks do get Cancer . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Gary Stix Run Silent, Run (Not So) Cheap . . . . . 26--26
Philip E. Ross Jurassic Virus? . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Russell Ruthen Revealing the Hidden Sequence . . . . . 30--31
James M. Lents and
William J. Kelly Clearing the Air in Los Angeles . . . . 32--39
Millard F. Coffin and
Olav Eldholm Large Igneous Provinces . . . . . . . . 42--49
Russell F. Doolittle and
Peer Bork Evolutionarily Mobile Modules in
Proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--56
Thomas C. Halsey and
James E. Martin Electrorheological Fluids . . . . . . . 58--64
Paul Alan Cox Water-Pollinated Plants . . . . . . . . 68--74
John Horgan Trends in Mathematics: The Death of
Proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Geoffrey E. Hinton and
David C. Plaut and
Tim Shallice Simulating Brain Damage . . . . . . . . 76--82
Lars-Åke Kvarning Raising the Vasa . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--91
Daniel J. Klingenberg Making Fluids into Solids with Magnets 90
John Horgan The Death of Proof . . . . . . . . . . . 92--103
John Horgan Trends in Mathematics: The Death of
Proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--103
Tim Beardsley Science and Business: CRADA Mania . . . 104--106
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 104
Joshua Shapiro A Wand for the Meter Reader . . . . . . 105--105
Karen Fitzgerald Magnetic Apprehensions . . . . . . . . . 106--107
W. Wayt Gibbs Chronologically Privileged . . . . . . . 107--107
Robert Patton Mag Lift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Gary Stix Power Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--110
Gary Stix and
Paul Wallich A Digital Fix for the Third World? . . . 111--111
Daniel J. Klingenberg The Amateur Scientist: Making Fluids
into Solids with Magnets . . . . . . . . 112--113
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--119
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Richard Wassersug Essay: Tadpoles from Heaven . . . . . . 120--120
Richard Wassersug Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12
Paul Wallich Science and the Citizen: Grim Statistics 14--14
Philip Yam Dot's Incredible . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 14
John Horgan Were Four Corners Victims Biowar
Casualties? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
John Rennie Insects are Forever . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Corey S. Powell Goldilocks Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . 20--23
Tim Beardsley Sausage Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Kristin Leutwyler ``Pollution, Pollution\ldots'' . . . . . 23--28
Tim Beardsley Unraveling Alzheimer's . . . . . . . . . 28--30
John Horgan The Mastermind of Artificial
Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--38
Anonymous Debate: Does Free Trade Harm the
Environment? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--41
Jagdish Bhagwati The Case for Free Trade . . . . . . . . 42--49
Domenic J. Iacono The Art of Boris Artzybasheff . . . . . 46
Herman E. Daly The Perils of Free Trade . . . . . . . . 50--57
N. G. Hingorani and
K. E. Stahlkopf High-power electronics . . . . . . . . . 52--59
Jean-Pierre Changeux Chemical Signaling in the Brain . . . . 58--62
Edward P. J. van den Heuvel and
Jan Van Paradijs X-ray Binaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Domenic J. Iacono Science in Pictures: The Art of Boris
Artzybasheff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--77
Domenic J. Jacono The Art of Boris Artzybasheff . . . . . 72
Narain G. Hingorani and
Karl E. Stahlkopf High-Power Electronics . . . . . . . . . 78--85 (Intl. ed. 52)
Marguerite Holloway Trends in the Sociology of Science: A
Lab of Her Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Ian Stewart Fermat's Last Time-Trip . . . . . . . . 85
Svante Pääbo Ancient DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--92
Marguerite Holloway Trends in The Sociology of Science: a
Lab of Her Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--103
Marguerite Holloway A Lab of Her Own . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Gary Stix Science and Business: Turning Green . . 104--107
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 104
W. Wayt Gibbs More Fun than a Root Canal . . . . . . . 106--106
Tim Beardsley Power Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Robert Patton Software Skipper . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
Gary Stix ECM for 747s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
Judith Fields Ivy League Bonus Babies . . . . . . . . 111--111
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Fermat's Last
Time-Trip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--115
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--118
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Bruce Russett Essay: Peace among Democracies . . . . . 120--120
Bruce Russett Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14
Jonathan Piel Special Year-End Section: Challenges for
1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
John Horgan Heart of the Matter . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Anonymous Challenges for 1994 . . . . . . . . . . 16
Tim Beardsley From Mice to Men . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--22
Paul Wallich Bright Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Philip Yam The Color of Sound . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Gary Stix Clean Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
W. Wayt Gibbs Deliverance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--33
Marguerite Holloway Core Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
John Horgan Fractured Functions . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Marguerite Holloway Living Legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Kristin Leutwyler A Girl's Best Friend . . . . . . . . . . 40--44
W. Wayt Gibbs When Cells Divide . . . . . . . . . . . 44--45
Gary Stix Shrinking Sandbox . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46
Tim Beardsley A Joycean Mutation . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
John Horgan Wanted: a Defense R&D Policy . . . . . . 47--50
Corey S. Powell Cosmic SNUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--50
Bryant Robey and
Shea O. Rutstein and
Leo Morris The Fertility Decline in Developing
Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--67
Neil Gehrels and
Carl E. Fichtel and
Gerald J. Fishman and
James D. Kurfess and
Volker Schönfelder The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory . . . 68--77
Jan Klein and
Naoyuki Takahata and
Francisco J. Ayala MHC Polymorphism and Human Origins . . . 78--83
Thomas E. Rinderer and
Benjamin P. Oldroyd and
Walter S. Sheppard Africanized Bees in the U.S. . . . . . . 84--90
Philip Yam Trends in Superconductivity: Current
Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Charles E. Bugg and
William M. Carson and
John A. Montgomery Drugs by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--98
Wayne Garver and
Frank Moss Electronic Fireflies . . . . . . . . . . 94
Steven H. Strogatz and
Ian Stewart Coupled Oscillators and Biological
Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--109
Caroline Malone and
Anthony Bonanno and
Tancred Gouder and
Simon Stoddart and
David Trump The Death Cults of Prehistoric Malta . . 110--117
Philip Yam Trends in Superconductivity: Current
Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--126
Philip Yam Current Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Wayne Garver and
Frank Moss The Amateur Scientist: Electronic
Fireflies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--130
Anonymous Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--138
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Anonymous Annual Index 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . 140--142
Anne Eisenberg Essay: Eponymous Science . . . . . . . . 144--144
Anne Eisenberg Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12
Corey S. Powell Science and the Citizen: Joe Btfsplk . . 17--18
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 17
Philip Yam Getting a New Rise out of
Superconductors . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Corey S. Powell ``EQ, Phone Home'' . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Corey S. Powell A Dark Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
John Horgan Biowarfare Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Kristin Leutwyler Something to Chew on . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Kristin Leutwyler Chiller Thriller . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Marguerite Holloway Dioxin Indictment . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Fred Guterl Keyhole View of a Genius . . . . . . . . 26--28
Jon A. Kusler and
William J. Mitsch and
Joseph S. Larson Wetlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--70
Henry J. Crawford and
Carsten H. Greiner The Search for Strange Matter . . . . . 72--77
Wayne W. Carmichael The Toxins of Cyanobacteria . . . . . . 78--86
Joseph F. Traub and
Henryk Wo\'zniakowski Breaking Intractability . . . . . . . . 102--107
David Crews Animal Sexuality . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--114
Colin Renfrew World Linguistic Diversity . . . . . . . 116--123
Tim Beardsley Trends in Cancer Epidemiology: A War not
Won . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Gerard J. Holzmann and
Björn Pehrson The First Data Networks . . . . . . . . 124--129
Tim Beardsley Trends in Cancer Epidemiology: a War not
Won . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--138
Tim Beardsley A War Not Won . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Ian Stewart Knots, Links and Videotape . . . . . . . 134
Gary Stix Science and Business: RoboTuna . . . . . 142--142
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 142
Robert Patton Survival Tactics . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--146
Gary Stix Material Advantage . . . . . . . . . . . 146--147
Kristin Leutwyler Optical Tomography . . . . . . . . . . . 147--149
Gary Stix Gene Readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150
Paul Wallich Lies, Damned Lies and Models . . . . . . 151--151
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations: Knots, Links
and Videotape . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--154
Anonymous Mathematical Recreation . . . . . . . . 152
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--158
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
George Monbiot Essay: The Tragedy of Enclosure . . . . 159--159
George Monbiot Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12
Corey S. Powell Science and the Citizen: Nobel Notes . . 16--20
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 16
Philip Yam Reflections in a Quantum Well . . . . . 20--21
John Rennie Too Little, Too Late? . . . . . . . . . 21--24
Kristin Leutwyler No Global Warming? . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
W. Wayt Gibbs and
Tim Beardsley Fertile Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Tim Beardsley Design for Living . . . . . . . . . . . 28--32
Madhusree Mukerjee Time-Trippers Beware . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Tim Beardsley Laid-Back Leader Rattles the Academy . . 34--35
Philip Morrison and
Kosta Tsipis and
Jerome Wiesner The Future of American Defense . . . . . 38--45
Robert J. Charlson and
Tom M. L. Wigley Sulfate Aerosol and Climatic Change . . 48--57
William McGinnis and
Michael Kuziora The Molecular Architects of Body Design 58--66
William J. Mitchell Science in Pictures: When is Seeing
Believing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--73
William J. Mitchell When Is Seeing Believing? . . . . . . . 68 (Intl. ed. 44--??)
John Horgan Trends in Physics: Particle Metaphysics 70
Ermanno F. Borra Liquid Mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
Don C. Des Jarlais and
Samuel R. Friedman AIDS and the Use of Injected Drugs . . . 82--88 (Intl. ed. 56)
Mark Dragovan and
Don Alvarez Making a Mirror by Spinning a Liquid . . 86
Larry G. Marshall The Terror Birds of South America . . . 90--95
John Horgan Trends in Physics: Particle Metaphysics 96--106
John Horgan Particle Metaphysics . . . . . . . . . . 96
Gary Stix Science and Business: Dr. Big Brother 108--110
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 108
Gary Stix Extra! Extra! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
W. Wayt Gibbs Heads in the Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
Gary Stix Pipe Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
Gary Stix A Blade of Grass . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Fred Guterl London Paying for Light at the End of the
Chunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Mark Dragovan and
Don Alvarez The Amateur Scientist: Making a Mirror
by Spinning a Liquid . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 116
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--123
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Gerard Piel Essay: AIDS and Population ``Control'' 124--124
Anonymous Essay: Gerard Piel . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Image
Enhancement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--18
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 14
Philip Yam Chaotic Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Kristin Leutwyler Down the Green . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Madhusree Mukerjee Spinning Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
Tim Beardsley Molecular Mischief . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
John Rennie Gene Rich, Cash Poor . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Corey S. Powell Cold Confusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--28
John Horgan Fermat's Theorem Fights Back . . . . . . 28--28
John Horgan Confronting the Final Limit . . . . . . 32--33
John Bongaarts Can the Growing Human Population Feed
Itself? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--42
Enrico Bonatti The Earth's Mantle Below the Oceans . . 44--51
Mario R. Capecchi Targeted Gene Replacement . . . . . . . 52--59
Bernard S. Meyerson High-Speed Silicon Germanium Electronics 62--67
David Deutsch and
Michael Lockwood The Quantum Physics of Time Travel . . . 68--74
Paul Wallich Trends in Communications: Wire Pirates 72
Natalie S. Glance and
Bernardo A. Huberman The Dynamics of Social Dilemmas . . . . 76--81
Lon L. McClanahan and
Rodolfo Ruibal and
Vaughan H. Shoemaker Frogs and Toads in Deserts . . . . . . . 82--88
Ian Stewart The New Merology of Beastly Numbers . . 88
Paul Wallich Trends in Communications: Wire Pirates 90--101
Paul Wallich Wire Pirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 (Intl. ed. 72--??)
Gary Stix Science and Business: Making Money . . . 102--105
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 102
W. Wayt Gibbs Inside Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Gary Stix The Last Frontier . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
W. Wayt Gibbs King Cotton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
John Rennie Biocatalysts Turn Rings around the
Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Kristin Leutwyler Prosthetic Vision . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Gary Stix and
Paul Wallich Is Bigger Still Better? . . . . . . . . 109--109
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: The New
Merology of Beastly Numbers . . . . . . 110--113
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 110
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--119
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Susan Zolla-Pazner Essay: The Professor, the University and
Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Susan Zolla-Pazner Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Cool Man, Hot
Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--18
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 14
John Horgan Quantum Computing Creeps Closer to
Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
John Rennie Super Sonic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
John Horgan Bang! you're Alive . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Marguerite Holloway An Epidemic Ignored . . . . . . . . . . 24--27
Kristin Leutwyler Silly Season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Philip Yam Super Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
John Horgan Revisiting Old Battlefields . . . . . . 36--41
Paul R. Krugman and
Robert Z. Lawrence Trade, Jobs and Wages . . . . . . . . . 44--49
Stuart Brown and
George Grüner Charge and Spin Density Waves . . . . . 50--56
Marcus E. Raichle Visualizing the Mind . . . . . . . . . . 58--64
Nicholas Kurti and
Hervé This-Benckhard Chemistry and Physics in the Kitchen . . 66--71
Marc B. Garnick The Dilemmas of Prostate Cancer . . . . 72--81
Marguerite Holloway Trends in Biological Restoration:
Nurturing Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Izumi Shimada and
Jo Ann Griffin Precious Metal Objects of the Middle
Sicán . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--89
Janet G. Luhmann and
James B. Pollack and
Lawrence Colin The Pioneer Mission to Venus . . . . . . 90--97
Nicholas Kurti and
Herve This-Benckhard The Kitchen as a Lab . . . . . . . . . . 94
Marguerite Holloway Trends in Biological Restoration:
Nurturing Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--108
Marguerite Holloway Nurturing Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
W. Wayt Gibbs Science and Business: Mirror, Mirror . . 110--112
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 110
Corey S. Powell Shaking Quakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
John Horgan The Threat of Buried Thrust Faults . . . 113--113
W. Wayt Gibbs Basic Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Tim Beardsley Hot Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Robert Patton Softwars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Paul Wallich Are Hospitals Heading for Intensive
Care? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Nicholas Kurti and
Hervé This-Benckhard The Amateur Scientist: The Kitchen as a
Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--123
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 120
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--127
Anonymous Book Reivews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Anne Eisenberg Essay: E-mail and the New Epistolary Age 128--128
Anne Eisenberg Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: When Treaties
Fail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--20
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 14
John Horgan Neural Eavesdropping . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Tim Beardsley The Lucky Ones . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--25
Tim Beardsley Take the Pain? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Corey S. Powell Unbearable Lightness . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Marguerite Holloway Family Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--32
Madhusree Mukerjee Vishnu Violated . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Kristin Leutwyler Amazing Grace . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Philip Yam Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Physics 39--40
Anonymous Is Homosexuality Biologically
Influenced? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Simon LeVay and
Dean H. Hamer Evidence for a Biological Influence in
Male Homosexuality . . . . . . . . . . . 44--49
William Byne The Biological Evidence Challenged . . . 50--55
David Z. Albert Bohm's Alternative To Quantum Mechanics 58--67
Howard M. Johnson and
Fuller W. Bazer and
Brian E. Szente and
Michael A. Jarpe How Interferons Fight Disease . . . . . 68--75
Gary Stix Trends in Air Transportation: Aging
Airways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Ron Miller Science in Pictures: Chesley Bonestell's
Astronomical Visions . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
Ron Miller Chesley Bonestell's Astronomical Visions 76 (Intl. ed. 50--??)
George A. Cooper Directional Drilling . . . . . . . . . . 82--87 (Intl. ed. 56)
Yves Coppens East Side Story: The Origin of Humankind 88--95
Ian Stewart How Many Guards in the Gallery? . . . . 88
Gary Stix Aging Airways . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--104 (Intl. ed. 70--78)
Gary Stix Trends in Air Transportation: Aging
Airways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--104
Tim Beardsley Science and Business: What's Bred in the
Bone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--108
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 106
John Horgan Cold Calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Tim Beardsley Devilish Details . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--110
Robert Patton Office Romance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--112
Kristin Leutwyler As Advertised . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Gary Stix Lollipop, Lollipop . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
W. Wayt Gibbs and
Gary Stix The Price of Clean . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
W. Wayt Gibbs Gray Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Marguerite Holloway and
Paul Wallich How Green is my Label? . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: How Many
Guards in the Gallery? . . . . . . . . . 118--120
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 118
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--127
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Victor F. Weisskopf Essay: Endangered Support of Basic
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Victor F. Weisskopf Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12
Marguerite Holloway Science and the Citizen: Population
Summit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 14
Madhusree Mukerjee Gathering String . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Corey S. Powell Sanity Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
Kristin Leutwyler Bright Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Tim Beardsley La Ronde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--29
Philip Yam It's Just a Phase . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Tim Beardsley Shooting the Rapids . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
John Horgan The Last Universal Mathematician . . . . 33--34
John M. Logsdon and
Alain Dupas Was the Race to the Moon Real? . . . . . 36--43
Michael Nauenberg and
Carlos Stroud and
John Yeazell The Classical Limit of an Atom . . . . . 44--49
Joseph E. LeDoux Emotion, Memory and the Brain . . . . . 50--57
John W. Hardy Adaptive Optics . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
Shelia Pozorski and
Thomas Pozorski Early Andean Cities . . . . . . . . . . 66--72
John Rennie Trends in Genetics: Grading the Gene
Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Wolfgang H. Kirchner and
William F. Towne The Sensory Basis of the Honeybee's
Dance Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--80
Paul Alan Cox and
Michael J. Balick The Ethnobotanical Approach to Drug
Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--87
John Iovine Genetically Altering Escherichia Coli 84
John Rennie Trends in Genetics: Grading the Gene
Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--97
John Rennie Grading the Gene Tests . . . . . . . . . 88
Gary Stix Science and Business: Cyberspace Cadets 98--101
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 98
Gary Stix Good-bye, Taki 183 . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Tim Beardsley Requiem for Alpha? . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
Gary Stix Immuno-Logistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--105
Madhusree Mukerjee Little Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
Paul Wallich and
Marguerite Holloway For Sale: One country, as is . . . . . . 107--107
John Iovine The Amateur Scientist: Genetically
Altering \em Escherichia coli . . . . . 108--111
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 108
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--115
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anne Eisenberg Essay: The Art of the Scientific Insult 116--116
Anne Eisenberg Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12
John Rennie Science and the Citizen: Immortal's
Enzyme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 14
Corey S. Powell A Visit to an Exotic Planet . . . . . . 16--16
Kristin Leutwyler Superhack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--20
Gary Stix Managed Care, Circa 1300 . . . . . . . . 20--20
Tim Beardsley Lethal Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Tim Beardsley Desperate Measure . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Philip Yam ``You're the Top\ldots'' . . . . . . . . 24--26
Madhusree Mukerjee Spell for Old Bones . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Francesca Bray Agriculture for Developing Nations . . . 30--37
G. Jeffrey Taylor The Scientific Legacy of Apollo . . . . 40--47
Julius Rebek, Jr. Synthetic Self-Replicating Molecules . . 48--55
Rakesh K. Jain Barriers to Drug Delivery in Solid
Tumors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
Thomas J. O'Shea Manatees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--72
John Horgan Trends in Neuroscience: Can Science
Explain Consciousness? . . . . . . . . . 72
Georges Pasteur Jean Henri Fabré . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--80
Heidi Knecht Late Ice Age Hunting Technology . . . . 82--87
John Horgan Trends in Neuroscience: Can Science
Explain Consciousness? . . . . . . . . . 88--94
John Horgan Can Science Explain Consciousness? . . . 88
Ian Stewart The Ultimate in Anty-Particles . . . . . 88
Gary Stix Science and Business: The Wall . . . . . 96--98
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 96
W. Wayt Gibbs To Fenway, with Love . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Gary Stix Private Screening . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Robert PattonTokyo Blue Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Gary Stix Roach Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--101
Tim Beardsley Green Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Paul Wallich In the Long Run, we all Retire . . . . . 103--103
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: The Ultimate
in Anty-Particles . . . . . . . . . . . 104--107
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 104
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--111
Anonymous Book Reviews: The scientific traveler
\ldots Tales of chance \ldots Venus
unrobed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Robert McC. Adams Essay: Ancient Sumer, Modern Iraq . . . 112--112
Robert McC Adams Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Amplification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10
Corey S. Powell Science and the Citizen: Star Gobbler 12--13
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 12
Corey S. Powell Darling Clementine? . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
John Horgan Radon's Risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Marguerite Holloway Diversity Blues . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Tim Beardsley The Riddle of [URE3] . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
John Horgan Anti-omniscience . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Madhusree Mukerjee Missing Matter Found? . . . . . . . . . 22--22
John Rennie Darwin's Current Bulldog . . . . . . . . 24--25
Daniel J. Revelle and
Lora Lumpe Third World Submarines . . . . . . . . . 26--31
Stuart Bowyer Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy . . . . . 32--39
Jeff W. Lichtman Science in Pictures: Confocal Microscopy 40--45
Jeff W. Lichtman Confocal Microscopy . . . . . . . . . . 40 (Intl. ed. 30--35)
John Clarke SQUIDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--53
Victor H. Engelhard How Cells Process Antigens . . . . . . . 54--61
Donald M. Anderson Red Tides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--68
Marguerite Holloway Trends in Women's Health: A Global View 66
Theya Molleson The Eloquent Bones of Abu Hureyra . . . 70--75
Marguerite Holloway Trends in Women's Health: a Global View 76--83
Marguerite Holloway A Global View . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Kyle M. Becker Scanning Underwater Surfaces . . . . . . 80
Gary Stix Science and Business: Welfare Plastic 84--86
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 84
Gary Stix From Swords to Mouse Ears . . . . . . . 85--85
Gary Stix Antigreen Greenies . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Kristin Leutwyler Rotaxanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
John Horgan and
Robert Patton More Bits from Pits . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
Tim Beardsley Illegitimi non Carborundum . . . . . . . 88--88
Paul Wallich A Workaholic Economy . . . . . . . . . . 89--89
Kyle M. Becker The Amateur Scientist: Scanning
Underwater Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . 90--92
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 90
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--95
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Lynn Margulis Essay: Sex, Death and Kefir . . . . . . 96--96
Lynn Margulis Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12
Corey S. Powell Science and the Citizen: Super Loops . . 14--14
Corey S. Powell Gone with a Bang . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--17
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 14
Kristin Leutwyler Sick, Sick, Sick . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
Tim Beardsley Hot Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--22
Sasha Nemecek Backfire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Madhusree Mukerjee Lonesome Cowpokes . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Philip Yam Can I Buy you a Drink? . . . . . . . . . 26--26
John Rennie Borrowed Savagery . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Corey S. Powell A Marriage of Science and Art . . . . . 28--31
Fred S. Kantor Disarming Lyme Disease . . . . . . . . . 34--39
John L. Duncan and
William F. Hosford The Aluminum Beverage Can . . . . . . . 34
Fred S. Kantor Disarming Lyme Disease . . . . . . . . . 34 (Intl. ed. 20--??)
David B. Cline Low-Energy Ways to Observe High-Energy
Phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
William F. Hosford and
John L. Duncan The Aluminum Beverage Can . . . . . . . 48--53
Thomas P. Stossel The Machinery of Cell Crawling . . . . . 54--63
Harry W. Green, II Solving the Paradox of Deep Earthquakes 64--71
Linda R. Cohen and
Roger G. Noll Privatizing Public Research . . . . . . 72--77
W. Wayt Gibbs Trends in Computing: Software's Chronic
Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Charles C. Gillispie The Scientific Importance of Napoleon's
Egyptian Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . 78--85
W. Wayt Gibbs Trends in Computing: Software's Chronic
Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--95
W. Wayt Gibbs Software's Chronic Crisis . . . . . . . 86 (Intl. ed. 72--81)
Tim Beardsley Science and Business: Turning Green . . 96--97
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 96
Gary Stix Binary Disinfectants . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Tim Beardsley Heat and Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
Gary Stix Food Fights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--101
Gary Stix Power Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Tim Beardsley Crabshoot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Paul Wallich Not Worth the Paper it's Printed on . . 103--103
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: a Subway Named
Turing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--107
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 104
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--111
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Devra Lee Davis and
Harold P. Freeman Essay: An Ounce of Prevention . . . . . 112--112
Devra Lee Davis and
Harold Freeman Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: By Jove! . . . 16--20
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 16
John Horgan Standing Tall . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Madhusree Mukerjee What's in a Name? . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Kristin Leutwyler A Healthy Mess . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--31
John Rennie Fishy Repair Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
John Horgan Daydreaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
John Horgan High Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--34
Marguerite Holloway Unearthing History . . . . . . . . . . . 37--40
Steven Weinberg Special Issue: Life in the Universe . . 44--49
Steven Weinberg Life in the Universe . . . . . . . . . . 44 (Intl. ed. 22--??)
P. James E. Peebles and
David N. Schramm and
Edwin L. Turner and
Richard G. Kron The Evolution of the Universe . . . . . 52--57
Robert P. Kirshner The Earth's Elements . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
Claude J. All\`egre and
Stephen H. Schneider The Evolution of the Earth . . . . . . . 66--75
Leslie E. Orgel The Origin of Life on the Earth . . . . 76--83
Stephen Jay Gould The Evolution of Life on the Earth . . . 84--91
Marvin Minsky Will Robots Merit the Earth? . . . . . . 86
Carl Sagan The Search for Extraterrestrial Life . . 92--99
William H. Calvin The Emergence of Intelligence . . . . . 100--107
Marvin Minsky Will Robots Inherit the Earth? . . . . . 108--113
John Iovine Building an Electronic Neuron . . . . . 110
Robert W. Kates Sustaining Life on the Earth . . . . . . 114--122
Madhusree Mukerjee Science and Business: Wall Street . . . 126--128
Anonymous Science and Business . . . . . . . . . . 126
W. Wayt Gibbs Ready or Not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129
W. Wayt Gibbs OpenDoc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--132
John Rennie Making Drugs Count . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
W. Wayt Gibbs State of Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--134
Paul Wallich Is a Bright Idea Flickering? . . . . . . 135--135
John Iovine The Amateur Scientist: Building an
Electronic Neuron . . . . . . . . . . . 136--138
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 136
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--143
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Antonio R. Damasio Essay: Descartes' Error and the Future
of Human Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Antonio R. Damasio Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12
Corey S. Powell Science and the Citizen: Talk about the
Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--20
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 14
Madhusree Mukerjee Global Aid Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
John Horgan Sex, Death and Sugar . . . . . . . . . . 20--24
John Horgan Brain Storm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
John Horgan Microquasars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Madhusree Mukerjee A Nova Burns Out . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Philip Yam Branching Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
Tim Beardsley Some Like it Hot --- and Cold . . . . . 30--30
John Horgan Gruff Guru of Condensed-Matter Physics 34--35
Patrick S. Moore and
Claire V. Broome Cerebrospinal Meningitis Epidemics . . . 38--45
Andrei Linde The Self-Reproducing Inflationary
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
Elliot M. Meyerowitz The Genetics of Flower Development . . . 56--65
Doris Schattschneider Science in Pictures: Escher's Metaphors 66--71
Doris Schattschneider Escher's Metaphors . . . . . . . . . . . 66 (Intl. ed. 48--??)
Jeffrey I. Schiller Secure Distributed Computing . . . . . . 72--76
Tim Beardsley Trends in Biological Research: Big-Time
Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Jeffrey I. Schiller Secure Distributed Computing . . . . . . 72 (Intl. ed. 54--58)
Laura E. Berk Why Children Talk to Themselves . . . . 78--83
William I. McLaughlin Resolving Zeno's Paradoxes . . . . . . . 84--89
Ian Stewart Playing Chess on a Go Board . . . . . . 88
Tim Beardsley Trends in Biological Research: Big-Time
Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--97
Tim Beardsley Big-Time Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Tim Beardsley Science and Business: Fighting for
Survival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--100
Anonymous Science and Business: Beating swords
into plowshares --- badly\ldots
Computers: the lean, mean layoff
machines?\ldots Metering the
Internet\ldots Preventing pollution for
profit\ldots Lithium batteries warm
up\ldots The Analytical Economist: Why
ain't the experts rich? . . . . . . . . 98
Tim Beardsley A New View for Surgeons . . . . . . . . 100--100
Kristin Leutwyler Productivity Lost . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
W. Wayt Gibbs Pricing Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
W. Wayt Gibbs Ounce of Prevention . . . . . . . . . . 103--105
Sasha Nemecek Bettering Batteries . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Donald N. McCloskey An Economic Uncertainty Principle . . . 107--107
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Playing Chess
on a Go Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--111
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 108
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--115
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anne Eisenberg Essay: Words at Play on the Internet . . 116--116
Anne Eosemberg Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10
W. Wayt Gibbs Science and the Citizen: No-Polluting
Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 14
Corey S. Powell The Astronomical Naming Game . . . . . . 16--20
Anonymous Electrical Activity above Thunderstorms 20--20
Philip Yam Trapped in the Light . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Steve Mirsky The Annual Ig Nobel Prizes . . . . . . . 22--26
Anonymous Toxic Waste and Race: An Unnatural
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Mervin Stykes And the Other 1994 Ig Nobel Prize
Winners are . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Kristin Leutwyler Deciphering the Breast Cancer Gene . . . 26--30
John Horgan Global Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
John Horgan The No-Name Virus . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
Paul Wallich The Wages of Haiti's Dictatorship . . . 36--36
W. Wayt Gibbs Virtual Reality Check . . . . . . . . . 40--42
Paul Wallich Watch your Electronic Mouth . . . . . . 43--44
Gary Stix Bad Apple Picker . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--46
Corey S. Powell Relinquishing Relics . . . . . . . . . . 46--47
Marguerite Holloway On the Trail of Wild Elephants . . . . . 48--50
John DeCicco and
Marc Ross Improving Automotive Efficiency . . . . 52--57
Michael J. Novacek and
Mark Norell and
Malcolm C. McKenna and
James Clark Fossils of the Flaming Cliffs . . . . . 60--69
Diane L. Evans and
Ellen R. Stofan and
Thomas D. Jones and
Linda M. Godwin Science in Pictures: Earth from Sky . . 70--75
Diane L. Evans and
Ellen R. Stofan and
Thomas D. Jones and
Linda M. Godwin Earth from Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 (Intl. ed. 44--??)
Gary Stix Trends in Scientific Communication: The
Speed of Write . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Jack S. Cohen and
Michael E. Hogan The New Genetic Medicines . . . . . . . 76--82
Marc Ross and
John Decicco Measuring the Energy Drain on Your Car 80
Berthold-Georg Englert and
Marlan O. Scully and
Herbert Walther The Duality in Matter and Light . . . . 86--92
Hilary F. French Making Environmental Treaties Work . . . 94--97
William P. Jacobs Caulerpa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--105
Gary Stix Trends in Scientific Communication: The
Speed of Write . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--111
Gary Stix The Speed of Write . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Marc Ross and
John DeCicco The Amateur Scientist: Measuring the
Energy Drain on your Car . . . . . . . . 112--115
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 112
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--123
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous Annual Index 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . 124--126
Eric J. Chaisson Essay: Clementine, Keyhole and Cosmic
Rats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Eric J. Chaisson Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Anonymous The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Technology and Business . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: For Whom the
Bell Curve Really Tolls . . . . . . . . 14--17
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 14
Corey S. Powell Deathbed Revelations . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Kristin Leutwyler The Great Attractors . . . . . . . . . . 17--20
Marguerite Holloway Socializing with Non-Naked Mole Rats . . 20--20
Corey S. Powell Picking up the Pieces . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Madhusree Mukerjee Mystery of the Missing Dynamo . . . . . 24--26
Sasha Nemecek Holes in Ozone Science . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Marguerite Holloway Fear and Self-Loathing in America . . . 27--27
Marguerite Holloway Seeing the Cells that See . . . . . . . 27--27
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist: Derivatives:
Not the Real Thing . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
W. Wayt Gibbs Technology and Business: Bellcore on the
Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
Corey S. Powell The Rights Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Marguerite Holloway Secrets in Stereogram . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Tim Beardsley On the Road to Nowhere? . . . . . . . . 32--33
Paul Wallich Invasion of the Bean Counters . . . . . 33--36
Marguerite Holloway Food for Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Philip Yam Profile: Walter H. Munk: The Man who
would Hear Ocean Temperatures . . . . . 38--40
Jeff Rothenberg Ensuring the Longevity of Digital
Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--47 (Intl. ed. 24--29)
Stanley B. Prusiner The Prion Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . 48--57
Anonymous A Persuasive Experiment . . . . . . . . 57--57
Ian W. D. Dalziel Earth Before Pangea . . . . . . . . . . 58--63
Dan W. Urry Elastic Biomolecular Machines . . . . . 64--69 (Intl. ed. 44)
Tim Beardsley Trends in Preventive Medicine: Better
Than a Cure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Thomas T. Perls The Oldest Old . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--75
Anonymous Survival of the Fittest . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Three who Thrive . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Sumner Starrfield and
Steven N. Shore The Birth and Death of Nova V1974 Cygni 76--81
Anonymous Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer, Do 76
Sumner Starrfield and
Steven N. Shore The Birth and Death of Nova V1974 Cygni 76 (Intl. ed. 56--61)
Jesse L. Byock Egil's Bones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--87
Tim Beardsley Trends in Preventive Medicine: Better
than a Cure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--95
Tim Beardsley Better Than a Cure . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Born in the U.S.A. . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Many ways to make a Vaccine . . . . . . 95--95
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Daisy, Daisy,
give me your Answer, do . . . . . . . . 96--99
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 96
Philip Morrison Book Reviews: Smart Buildings . . . . . 100--103
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
John Timpane Essay: How to Convince a Reluctant
Scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
John Timpane Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Technology and Business . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago: 50 and 100 Years
Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Philip Yam Science and the Citizen: Dangerous Sex 10--12
Tim Beardsley Putting Alzheimer's to the Tests . . . . 12--13
David Schneider Global Warming is still a Hot Topic . . 13--14
Gary Stix Broken Dreamtime . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Tim Beardsley Commanding Attention . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Kristin Leutwyler Finessing Fermat, Again . . . . . . . . 16--18
David Schneider Seeing how the Earth Moved . . . . . . . 18--18
David Schneider It's Getting Easier to Find a Date . . . 18--20
Steve Mirsky Nothing Personal, you're just not my
Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Sasha Nemecek Out of the Lab and into the Fire . . . . 21--24
Steven Vames No, Really, it was This Big . . . . . . 24--24
Donald N. McCloskey The Analytical Economist: Once upon a
Time there was a Theory . . . . . . . . 25--25
Tim Beardsley Technology and Business: a Budgetary
Storm is Brewing . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
John Browning Agents and Other Animals . . . . . . . . 28--29
Paul Wallich The Chilling Wind of Copyright Law? . . 30--30
Madhusree Mukerjee Profile: Yoichiro Nambu: Strings and
Gluons --- The Seer saw them all . . . . 37--39
Partha S. Dasgupta Population, Poverty and the Local
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--45
Seth J. Putterman Sonoluminescence: Sound into Light . . . 46--51 (Intl. ed. 32--37)
Robert Tjian Molecular Machines that Control Genes 54--61
Kay Redfield Jamison Manic-Depressive Illness and Creativity 62--67
Moshe Elitzur Masers in the Sky . . . . . . . . . . . 68--74
Gary Stix Trends in Semiconductor Manufacturing:
Toward ``Point One'' . . . . . . . . . . 72
John M. Hoberman and
Charles E. Yesalis The History of Synthetic Testosterone 76--81
Robert A. Hiller and
Bradley P. Barber Producing Light from a Bubble of Air . . 78
Roger L. Larson The Mid-Cretaceous Superplume Episode 82--86 (Intl. ed. 66--70)
Gary Stix Toward ``Point one'' . . . . . . . . . . 90--95 (Intl. ed. 72--77)
Gary Stix Trends in Semiconductor Manufacturing:
Toward ``Point One'' . . . . . . . . . . 90--95
Robert A. Hiller and
Bradley P. Barber The Amateur Scientist: Producing Light
from a Bubble of Air . . . . . . . . . . 96--98
Anonymous The amateur scientist . . . . . . . . . 96
Leon J. Kamin Book Review: Behind the Curve . . . . . 99--103
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Anne Eisenberg Essay: Scientists and their CD-ROMs . . 104--104
Anonymous Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Endangered: One
Endangered Species Act . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 18
Sasha Nemecek Science and Art on Stage . . . . . . . . 20--21
Sasha Nemecek Not yet Elemental, my Dear Seaborg . . . 21--21
Philip Yam Talking Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Tim Beardsley Pass the Plutonium, Please . . . . . . . 28--29
Madhusree Mukerjee Nuclear Empowerment . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
David Schneider Swing Wide of that One . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Corey S. Powell The Chaos Within . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Steven Vames Scientists' Sense of Snow . . . . . . . 32--32
Gary Stix Ban that Embargo . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Madhusree Mukerjee Liquid Crystals on Display . . . . . . . 34--34
W. Wayt Gibbs Treatment that Tightens the Belt . . . . 34--35
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist: a Mystery
Inside a Riddle Inside an Enigma . . . . 37--37
Gary Stix Technology and Business: a Recombinant
Feast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--40
John Browning GIF us a Break . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
David Schneider MRI goes Back to the Future . . . . . . 42--42
John Browning Phone Fight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
John Horgan Profile: Fred Hoyle: The Return of the
Maverick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--47
David A. Kessler and
Karyn L. Feiden Faster Evaluation of Vital Drugs . . . . 48--54
Paul Brumer and
Moshe Shapiro Laser Control of Chemical Reactions . . 56--63
Michael S. Triantafyllou and
George S. Triantafyllou An Efficient Swimming Machine . . . . . 64--70
Webster K. Cavenee and
Raymond L. White The Genetic Basis of Cancer . . . . . . 72--79
W. Wayt Gibbs Trends in Behavioral Science: Seeking
the Criminal Element . . . . . . . . . . 76
Frans B. M. De Waal Bonobo Sex and Society . . . . . . . . . 82--88
Anonymous Turning the Tables Around . . . . . . . 84
Robert R. Birge Protein-Based Computers . . . . . . . . 90--95
Curtis N. Runnels Environmental Degradation in Ancient
Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--99
W. Wayt Gibbs Trends in Behavioral Science: Seeking
the Criminal Element . . . . . . . . . . 100--107
W. Wayt Gibbs Seeking the Criminal Element . . . . . . 100
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Turning the
Tables Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--110
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 108
Philip Morrison Brief: Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . 111--114
Philip Morrison Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Steven Shackley Essay: Relics, Rights and Regulations 115--115
Anonymous Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Essay Shakley A misguided law hurts Native Americans
and museums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Anonymous The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 12
Glenn Zorpette Science and the Citizen: Bracing for the
Next Big One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 14
Mark Derr The End of the Road . . . . . . . . . . 16--20
Sasha Nemecek Sun Spotting the Difference . . . . . . 20--20
Corey S. Powell Astronomers in the Dark . . . . . . . . 20--22
Steven Vames A Ringside View of Stars . . . . . . . . 22--22
Madhusree Mukerjee Coming Out in the Sciences . . . . . . . 24--24
Sasha Nemecek I get no Kick from CH$_3$CH$_2$OH . . . 24--26
Tim Beardsley Fighting all the Time . . . . . . . . . 26--29
David Schneider Down and Out in the Gulf of Mexico . . . 29--29
Philip Yam Catching that Wave . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Donald N. McCloskey The Analytical Economist: The
Insignificance of Statistical
Significance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
W. Wayt Gibbs Technology and Business: Coming in for a
Landing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Paul Wallich A Widget's Best Friend . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Gary Stix Simply, the Best . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Tim Beardsley Genes in the not so Public Domain . . . 36--37
Gary Stix Voting for a Cure . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Madhusree Mukerjee The Fishy Business of Waste . . . . . . 40--40
David Schneider Changing the Image . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
W. Wayt Gibbs Engineering the Future . . . . . . . . . 44--48
Andrew R. Blaustein and
David B. Wake The Puzzle of Declining Amphibian
Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
J. R. Jokipii and
Frank B. McDonald Quest for the Limits of the Heliosphere 58--63
Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa Machines that Learn from Hints . . . . . 64--69
Ralph J. Greenspan Understanding the Genetic Construction
of Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--78
Kristin Leutwyler Trends in Health Care: The Price of
Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Ricardo Chiavinglese Computerized Restoration of Juvenile Art 104
Lillian Schwartz Science in Pictures: The Art Historian's
Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--111
Lillian Schwartz The Art Historian's Computer . . . . . . 106 (Intl. ed. 80--??)
A. W. Moore A Brief History of Infinity . . . . . . 112--116 (Intl. ed. 86)
Elizabeth C. Stone and
Paul Zimansky The Tapestry of Power in a Mesopotamian
City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--123
Kristin Leutwyler Trends in Health Care: The Price of
Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--129
Kristin Leutwyler The Price of Prevention . . . . . . . . 124
Ricardo Chiav'inglese The Amateur Scientist: Computerized
Restoration of Juvenile Art . . . . . . 130--132
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist . . . . . . . . . 130
Daniel L. Schacter Book Reviews: Memory Wars . . . . . . . 135--139
Daniel L. Schacter Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Jeremy Bernstein Essay: The Poor Person's Guide to The
Bell Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Jeremy Bernstein Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Anonymous The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Technology and Business . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
W. Wayt Gibbs Science and the Citizen: Information
Have-Nots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 12B
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 12B
Anonymous Technology and Business . . . . . . . . 12B
David Schneider The Sound of One Tree Breathing . . . . 14--14
Tim Beardsley The Cold War's Dirty Secrets . . . . . . 16--16
Madhusree Mukerjee Tribal Struggle . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--20
Steven Vames Sponging off Shrimp . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
John Horgan Top Price for the Top Quark . . . . . . 20--21
Gary Stix Why Worry? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Glenn Zorpett So Many Salmon, but so Little . . . . . 21--22
Tim Beardsley Life's a Draw . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
W. Wayt Gibbs The Naughtiest Teens in the World . . . 24--24
Philip Yam As they Lay Dying . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Gary Stix and
Paul Wallich Miracles for Export . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Gary Stix Lithography Becomes Political Pork . . . 30--30
Paul Wallich A Rogue's Routing . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
David Schneider Feature from the Dark Lagoon . . . . . . 32--32
Gary Stix Putting the Mass Back in Transit . . . . 32--33
David Paterson Electric Genes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--34
John Browning Europeans On-Line . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
John Horgan Josephson's Inner Junction . . . . . . . 40--41
Donald A. Tomalia Dendrimer Molecules . . . . . . . . . . 42
Carl E. Bartecchi and
Thomas D. MacKenzie and
Robert W. Schrier The Global Tobacco Epidemic . . . . . . 44--51
Raymond W. Schmitt, Jr. The Ocean's Salt Fingers . . . . . . . . 50
Tsvi Piran Binary Neutron Stars . . . . . . . . . . 52--61
Donald A. Tomalia Dendrimer Molecules . . . . . . . . . . 62--66
Raymond W. Schmitt, Jr. The Ocean's Salt Fingers . . . . . . . . 70--75
Alan M. Litke and
Andreas S. Schwarz The Silicon Microstrip Detector . . . . 76--81
Marguerite Holloway Trends in Archaeology: The Preservation
of Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Anonymous Fibonacci Forgeries . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Special Investigation: The Atomic
Intrigues of Niels Bohr . . . . . . . . 83--83
Hans A. Bethe and
Kurt Gottfried and
Roald Z. Sagdeev Did Bohr Share Nuclear Secrets? . . . . 84--90
Jeremy Bernstein What Did Heisenberg Tell Bohr About the
Bomb? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--97
Marguerite Holloway Trends in Archaeology: The Preservation
of Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--101
Marguerite Holloway The Preservation of the Past . . . . . . 98
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Fibonacci
Forgeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--105
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--111
William J. Mitchell Essay: The Parable of the Pizza Parlor 112--112
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 14
Madhusree Mukerjee Science and the Citizen: Persistently
Toxic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 16
W. Wayt Gibbs Ambivalent Anniversaries . . . . . . . . 18--18
Corey S. Powell Crisis? What Crisis? . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
Christina Stock Flying in the Face of Tradition . . . . 22--22
Kristin Leutwyler Depression's Double Standard . . . . . . 23--26
Corey S. Powell Dinosaurs in the Halls . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Tim Beardsley Death by Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Glenn Zorpette The Importance of Being Sneaky . . . . . 28--30
John Horgan Better Late than Never . . . . . . . . . 32--32
John Horgan The Eyes have it . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Tim Beardsley Rio Redux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Paul Wallich Yesterday the Peso, Tomorrow the Dollar? 36--38
Gary Stix Suck it to me . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
W. Wayt Gibbs Turning Back the Clock . . . . . . . . . 40--40
John Browning Tell us Another Story, Please, Bill . . 44--44
W. Wayt Gibbs Computing with Fire . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Sasha Nemecek Have a Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Sasha Nemecek Employment Blues: Nothing to do with
being Green . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
David Paterson Setting a Standard . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Marguerite Holloway Turning the Inside Out . . . . . . . . . 49--50
David Pearce and
Neil Adger and
David Maddison and
Dominic Moran Debt and the Environment . . . . . . . . 52--56
Greg Boebinger and
Al Passner and
Joze Bevk Building World-Record Magnets . . . . . 58--66
Peter J. Hotez and
David I. Pritchard Hookworm Infection . . . . . . . . . . . 68--74
John Horgan Trends in Complexity Studies: From
Complexity to Perplexity . . . . . . . . 74
Martin A. Nowak and
Robert M. May and
Karl Sigmund The Arithmetics of Mutual Help . . . . . 76--81
Alan L. Lloyd Computing Bouts of the Prisoner's
Dilemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Lothar Haselberger Science in Pictures: Deciphering a Roman
Blueprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--89
Lothar Haselberger Deciphering a Roman Blueprint . . . . . 84 (Intl. ed. 56--??)
Sam M. Austin and
George F. Bertsch Halo Nuclei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--95
David W. Pfennig and
Paul W. Sherman Kin Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--103
John Horgan Trends in Complexity Studies: From
Complexity to Perplexity . . . . . . . . 104--109
John Horgan From Complexity to Perplexity . . . . . 104
Alun L. Lloyd The Amateur Scientist: Computing Bouts
of the Prisoner's Dilemma . . . . . . . 110--115
Anonymous Amateur scientist . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--119
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Ralph E. Gomory Essay: The Known, the Unknown and the
Unknowable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
R. E. Comory Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Ralph E. Gomory Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Technology and Business . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10
Tim Beardsley Science and the Citizen: Darwin Denied 12--14
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 12
David Schneider On the Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
John Horgan Bashing Black Holes . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Sasha Nemecek Artistic Genes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Steve Mirsky Fright of the Bumblebee . . . . . . . . 17--18
John Morga The Waterfall Illusion . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Philip Yam In the Atomic Corral . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Madhusree Mukerjee Toxins Abounding . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Glenn Zorpette Just Scratch it . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Kristin Leutwyler An Inside Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
David Schneider A River (of Mud) Still Runs Through it 24--24
Donald N. McCloskey The Analytical Economist: Computation
Outstrips Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Tim Beardsley It's Melting, It's Melting . . . . . . . 28--28
Tim Beardsley Technology and Business: Environmental
Secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Glenn Zorpette Food Indigo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Sasha Nemecek When Smog gets in your Eyes . . . . . . 29--30
Simson Garfinkel A Prime Patent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
John Browning Follow the Money . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
Tim Beardsley Ceramic Superwire . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Philip Yam Profile: James Randi: a Skeptically
Inquiring Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Robert K. Wayne and
John L. Gittleman The Problematic Red Wolf . . . . . . . . 36--39
Robert E. Schafrik and
Sara E. Church Protecting the Greenback . . . . . . . . 40--46
Paul E. Lacy Treating Diabetes with Transplanted
Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--58
Bruce H. Robison Light in the Ocean's Midwaters . . . . . 60--60A
Paul E. Chevedden and
Les Eigenbrod and
Vernard Foley and
Werner Soedel and
Vernard Foley The Trebuchet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
John S. J. Rigden Robert Oppenheimer: Before the War . . . 68
Daniel M. Kammen Cookstoves for the Developing World . . 72--75 (Intl. ed. 64)
Philip Yarn Trends in Materials Science: Plastics
Get Wired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
John S. Rigden J. Robert Oppenheimer: Before the War 76--81
Anonymous Election Fever in Blockvotia . . . . . . 80
Philip Yam Plastics Get Wired . . . . . . . . . . . 82--87 (Intl. ed. 74--79)
Philip Yam Trends in Materials Science: Plastics
Get Wired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--87
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Election Fever
in Blockvotia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Reviews: Beauty in the Beast . . . . . . 90--94
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Anne Eisenberg Essay: Rest and Relaxation on the Net 95--95
Anonymous Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Anne Eisenberg Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Anonymous The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Technology and Business . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Defining the infinite . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Letters to the Editor: Losing land . . . 8
Anonymous Science on crime . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50 and
100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 1945: Car phones foretold . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous 1895: The molasses sidewalk . . . . . . 10
Anonymous 50 and 100 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . 10
Billy Tashman Science and the Citizen: Misreading
Dyslexia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous The Analytical Economist: The velocity
of money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous For the brain, it's all in the timing 14
Anonymous Biosphere 2, Science 0 . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Fallout of the nuclear legacy . . . . . 14
Anonymous How to catch a fly ball . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Miming gas hydrates in Japan . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Science and the Citizen: Dyslexia
misdiagnosed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous SIDS controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine 14
Anonymous Technology and Business: Optical disks
aim to erase video-tape --- Permanently 14
Anonymous The ultimate ice cube . . . . . . . . . 14
Stephen Jay Gould Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
John Horgan It's all in the Timing . . . . . . . . . 16--16
David Schneider Blast from the Past . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Philip Yam Coming in from the Cold . . . . . . . . 18--19
Madhusree Mukerjee Quasimodal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Corey S. Powell What the Keck? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Christina Stock High Tidings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
John Horga The Mystery of SIDS . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Tim Beardsley Down to Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
John Horgan How to Catch a Fly Ball . . . . . . . . 26--26
Sasha Nemecek Putting Bombs Away . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Tim Beardsley Testing's Toll . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Paul Wallich Fast Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
W. Wayt Gibbs Beyond Binary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--34
Tim Beardsley Sweet Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
John Browning I.T., Phone Home . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--36
Brenda DeKoker Going Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Corey S. Powell Metal Detectors . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
John Morgan Escaping in a Cloud of Ink . . . . . . . 37--41
Philip Morrison Recollections of a Nuclear War . . . . . 42--46
Robert Davies-Jones Tornadoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--57
Martin A. Nowak and
Andrew J. McMichael How HIV Defeats the Immune System . . . 58--65
Frank Moss and
Kurt Wiesenfeld The Benefits of Background Noise . . . . 66--69
Richard E. Moon and
Richard D. Vann and
Peter B. Bennett The Physiology of Decompression Illness 70--77
W. Wayt Gibbs Trends in Scientific Communication: Lost
Science in the Third World . . . . . . . 76
Peter M. Narins Frog Communication . . . . . . . . . . . 78--83
David H. Levy and
Eugene M. Shoemaker and
Carolyn S. Shoemaker Comet Shoemaker--Levy 9 Meets Jupiter 84--91 (Intl. ed. 68--75)
Wayne Garver and
Frank Moss Detecting Signals with Noise . . . . . . 84
W. Wayt Gibbs Trends in Scientific Communication: Lost
Science in the Third World . . . . . . . 92--99
W. Wayt Gibbs Lost Science in the Third World . . . . 92
Wayne Garver and
Frank Moss The Amateur Scientist: Detecting Signals
with Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--103
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist: Using controlled
static to pump up the volume . . . . . . 100
George C. McGavin and
Vern L. Bullough Reviews: Six Legs Good . . . . . . . . . 104--107
Anonymous Reviews: Love those bugs . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Sex counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Seven Samurai versus the cosmos . . . . 104
Abigail Zuger Essay: The High Cost of Living . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Bohr and nuclear espionage . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters to the editors . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous UV radiation and vanishing frogs . . . . 10
Anonymous Da Vinci and Mona Lisa . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 12--17
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . 12
W. Wayt Gibbs Science and the Citizen: The Treaty That
Worked --- Almost . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Anonymous The Analytical Economist . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Become an arms smuggler: Carry software
overseas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Boston's lobsters dredge up trouble . . 18
Anonymous Black-market ozone wreckers . . . . . . 18
Anonymous DNA computing: Plugging pieces into
proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Flying robots fight for glory . . . . . 18
Anonymous No funds to find Ebola . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Oil spills in the former Soviet Union 18
Anonymous Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Psychologists find inspiration in chaos 18
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Technology and Business . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Worries over a patent plague gene
therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Tom Draper Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
W. Wayt Gibbs The Most Dangerous Animal . . . . . . . 20--20
Kristin Leutwyler Calculating with DNA . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Christina Stock Ectoplasm Reigns . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Gary Stix Boot Camp for Surgeons . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Sasha Nemecek New Letters for Alphabet Soup . . . . . 24--28
John Horgan Complexifying Freud . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Sasha Nemecek One Good Pest Deserves Another . . . . . 30--31
Glenn Zorpette Lobster Stew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--33
Kristin Leutwyler Hide-and-Seek . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--36
Mark Derr Common Scents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Steve Mirsky Silence of the Genes . . . . . . . . . . 40--42
David Schneider Like a Sieve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Donald N. McCloskey The Analytical Economist: The Gulliver
Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Tim Beardsley Technology and Business: Patently
Obvious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
David Schneider Magnificent Men (Mostly) and Their
Flying Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Glenn Zorpette Arrest that Passenger . . . . . . . . . 46--48
Kristin Leutwyler Profile: Nicholas Negroponte: The Guru
of Cyberspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--52
John Rennie Introduction: The Uncertainties of
Technological Innovation . . . . . . . . 56--58
Vincent W. S. Chan All-Optical Networks . . . . . . . . . . 56
John Rennie The Uncertainties of Technological
Innovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 (Intl. ed. 42--??)
Anonymous Information Technologies . . . . . . . . 60--94
David A. Patterson Microprocessors in 2020 . . . . . . . . 62 (Intl. ed. 48--??)
George I. Zysman Wireless Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 68 (Intl. ed. 52--??)
Brenda Laurel Virtual Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Russell Daggatt Satellites for a Developing World . . . 71
Vincent W. S. Chan All-Optical Networks . . . . . . . . . . 72
Tony R. Eastham High-Speed Rail: Another Golden Age? . . 74
Douglas B. Lenat Artificial Intelligence . . . . . . . . 80--82 (Intl. ed. 62)
Pattie Maes Intelligent Software . . . . . . . . . . 84--86 (Intl. ed. 66)
Brenda Laurel Commentary: Virtual Reality . . . . . . 90
Robert Cervero Why Go Anywhere? . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Russell Daggatt Commentary: Satellites for a Developing
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Anonymous Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--120
Freeman J. Dyson Transportation: 21st-Century spacecraft 114--116, 116A
Anonymous Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Tony R. Eastham High-speed rail. Another golden age? . . 100
Dieter Zetsche The Automobile: Clean and Customized . . 102--106 (Intl. ed. 76)
Eugene E. Covert Evolution of the Commercial Airliner . . 110--113 (Intl. ed. 82)
Arthur Caplan An Improved Future? . . . . . . . . . . 110
Freeman J. Dyson 21st-Century spacecraft . . . . . . . . 114
George M. Whitesides Self-Assembling Materials . . . . . . . 114
Robert Cervero Commentary: Why Go Anywhere? . . . . . . 118
Anonymous Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--143
W. French Anderson Gene Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 (Intl. ed. 96--??)
Paul C. W. Chu High-Temperature Superconductors . . . . 128
Robert Langer and
Joseph P. Vacanti Artificial Organs . . . . . . . . . . . 130--133 (Intl. ed. 100)
Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics in the 21st Century . . . . . . 132
Nancy J. Alexander Future Contraceptives . . . . . . . . . 136 (Intl. ed. 104--??)
Arthur Caplan Commentary: An improved Future? . . . . 142
Anonymous Machines, Materials and Manufacturing 144--166
George M. Whitesides Self-Assembling Materials . . . . . . . 146--149
Kaigham J. Gabriel Engineering Microscopic Machines . . . . 150--153 (Intl. ed. 118)
Heinrich Von Lersner Outline for an Ecological Economy . . . 153
Craig A. Rogers Intelligent Materials . . . . . . . . . 154--157 (Intl. ed. 122)
Paul C. W. Chu High-Temperature Superconductors . . . . 162--165
Anonymous The Great Drain Robbery . . . . . . . . 166
Joseph F. Engelberger Commentary: Robotics in the 21st Century 166
Anonymous Energy and Environment . . . . . . . . . 168--188
William Hoagland Solar Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--173 (Intl. ed. 136)
Harold P. Furth Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--176 (Intl. ed. 140)
Robert A. Frosch The Industrial Ecology of the 21st
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 (Intl. ed. 144--??)
Donald L. Plucknett and
Donald L. Winkelmann Technology for a Sustainable Agriculture 182 (Intl. ed. 148--??)
Heinrich von Lersner Commentary: Outline for an Ecological
Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Anonymous Living with New Technologies . . . . . . 190--205
Anonymous Commentaries: Living with new
technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Anonymous Living with new technologies . . . . . . 190
Arati Prabhakar Technology Infrastructure . . . . . . . 192 (Intl. ed. 158--??)
Donald A. Norman Designing the Future . . . . . . . . . . 194 (Intl. ed. 159--??)
Richard A. Lanham Digital Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 (Intl. ed. 160--??)
Hal R. Varian The Information Economy . . . . . . . . 200 (Intl. ed. 161--??)
Shoshana Zuboff The Emperor's New Workplace . . . . . . 202 (Intl. ed. 162--??)
Robert W. Lucky What Technology Alone Cannot Do . . . . 204 (Intl. ed. 164--??)
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: The Great
Drain Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--207
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations . . . . . . . . 206
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--215
Anonymous Dare to be digital . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Anonymous Internet business primers . . . . . . . 210
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Anonymous The way things don't work on CD-ROMs . . 210
Simon Penny Essay: The Pursuit of the Living Machine 216--216
Anonymous Essay: Simon Penny . . . . . . . . . . . 216
S. Penny Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Controversy over complexity . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Smoking: The real costs . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 1845: The autopilot . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous 1895: Pasteur, R.I.P . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous 1945: Transmitters in the sky . . . . . 12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . 12
Madhusree Mukerjee Science and the Citizen: Hidden Scars 14--15
Anonymous The Analytical Economist: A world of
debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Chicken pox vaccine in question . . . . 14
Anonymous Electromagnetic contamination . . . . . 14
Anonymous The Endangered Species Act . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Human origins on better footing . . . . 14
Anonymous The ice beyond Neptune . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Profile: Cosmologist George F. R. Ellis
lives on a divided Earth . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Sexual abuse on the brain . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Science and the Citizen . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Sex, death and a backflip . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Secret U.S. export: Sulfates . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Technology and Business: Good-bye,
Commerce Department . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Undersea laboratory . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Viewing cyberspace . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Karen Wright Seeing the Forest for the Trees . . . . 21--24
John Horgan Beyond Neptune . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Corey S. Powell Why so blue? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
David Schneider High Tension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--31
Glenn Zorpette 3 Rms, Ocean View . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
John Carpi A Pox on the Pox . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Rodger Doyle Deaths Caused by Breast Cancer, by
County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Madhusree Mukerjee Giving your All . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Tim Beardsley Endangered Again . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Sasha Nemecek A Tight Fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
Tim Beardsley These Feet were made for Walking ---
And? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Glenn Zorpette More Coral Trouble . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist: Are Band-Aids
Enough for Third World Debt? . . . . . . 38--38
Tim Beardsley Technology and Business: Slash and Burn 39--39
Brenda DeKoker An Acid Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Philip Yam Writing on the Fringe . . . . . . . . . 40--40
John Browning Theres No Place like Cyberspace . . . . 44--46
W. Wayt Gibbs Soft Wear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Paul Wallich A Tiny Gutenberg . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
W. Wayt Gibbs Profile: George F. R. Ellis: Thinking
Globally, Acting Universally . . . . . . 50--55
Bernard Le Guenno Emerging Viruses . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--64 (Intl. ed. 30)
Alan P. Boss Companions to Young Stars . . . . . . . 134--139
Seth Lloyd Quantum-Mechanical Computers . . . . . . 140--145
J. Mark Loizeaux and
Douglas K. Loizeaux Demolition by Implosion . . . . . . . . 146--153 (Intl. ed. 120)
John Horgan Trends in Social Science: The New Social
Darwinists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Richard Axel The Molecular Logic of Smell . . . . . . 154--159
Anonymous The Never-Ending Chess Game . . . . . . 158
Neil Baldwin Science in Pictures: The Laboratory
Notebooks of Thomas Edison . . . . . . . 160--163
Neil Baldwin The Laboratory Notebooks of Thomas
Edison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 (Intl. ed. 138--??)
Devra Lee Davis and
H. Leon Bradlow Trends in Social Science: Can
Environmental Estrogens Cause Breast
Cancer? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--172
Devra Lee Davis and
H. Leon Bradlow Can Environmental Estrogens Cause Breast
Cancer? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 (Intl. ed. 144--??)
John Horgan The New Social Darwinists . . . . . . . 174--181
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: The
Never-Ending Chess Game . . . . . . . . 182--183
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations: How to play a
never-ending game of chess . . . . . . . 182
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--190
Anonymous Reviews: Apollo 13 in film, books and
reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Anonymous Sea monsters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Gerald Holton Essay: The Controversy over the End of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Gerald Holton Essay: The end of science is nowhere in
sight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
John Rennie Letter From the Editors . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous The counterfeiting threat . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Harvard's women . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Red wolves: A new species? . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 1945: DDT warning . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous 1895: Loss of the bison . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous 1845: Telegraph balloons . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . 10
John Horgan Science and the Citizen: Get Smart, Take
a Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous Algae against sewage . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous The Analytical Economist: Taxes and the
female workforce . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Antarctic meltdown . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Attractive odors . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Fiberglass and cancer fears . . . . . . 12
Anonymous ``Gay genes'' under new scrutiny . . . . 12
Anonymous Linking nerves to silicon . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Mapping heart disease . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Profile: Kay Redfield Jamison talks of
moods and madness . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Rising IQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Technology and Business: Congress
tackles technology without advice . . . 12
Anonymous Thalidomide rehabilitated . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Volcano music . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
David Schneider Attracted to the Pole . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Philip Yam Fiber that may not be good for you . . . 15--17
John Horgan The Big Thaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--20
Steve Mirsky The noses have it . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Sasha Nemecek Transforming Hyde into Jekyll . . . . . 20--22
Rodger Doyle Male Deaths Caused by Heart Disease, by
County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Nicola Perrin A Never-Ending Feast . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Paul Wallich Out of Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
John Horgan Gay Genes, Revisited . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Tim Beardsley Solar Secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--29
David Schneider Country Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Paul Wallich Some Women are More Equal than Others 29--29
Glenn Zorpette Luddites on the Hill . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Carl Saga The World's Imperiled Fish . . . . . . . 30
Tim Beardsley Clearing the Air . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Philip Yam Mind Meets Machine, Sort of . . . . . . 32--32
Paul Wallich Meta-Virus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
John Browning Rights of Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . 36--42
W. Wayt Gibbs Sewage Treatment Plants . . . . . . . . 42--42
Kristin Leutwyler Coming through Madness . . . . . . . . . 44--45
Carl Safina The World's Imperiled Fish . . . . . . . 46--53
Wolfgang J. Streit and
Carol A. Kincaid-Colton The Brain's Immune System . . . . . . . 54--61
Wallace S. Broecker Chaotic Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--68
Demetri Psaltis and
Fai Mok Holographic Memories . . . . . . . . . . 70--76 (Intl. ed. 52--58)
Richard Milner Charles Darwin: The Last Portrait . . . 78--78
Richard Dawkins God's Utility Function . . . . . . . . . 80--85
Shawn Carlson Measuring the Wind with Hot Metal . . . 80
Richard Dawkins God's Utility Function . . . . . . . . . 80 (Intl. ed. 62--??)
Anonymous Ways to Tile Space with Knots . . . . . 82
Graham Farmelo The Discovery of X-rays . . . . . . . . 86--91
Peter J. Beek and
Arthur Lewbel The Science of Juggling . . . . . . . . 92--97
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Measuring the
Wind with Hot Metal . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist: Measuring wind
speed in tight places . . . . . . . . . 98
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Ways to Tile
Space with Knots . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations: How to fill
space with knots and doughnuts . . . . . 100
Robert Sheaffer and
Mark Monmonier and
James S. Trefil Reviews and Commentaries: Reviews . . . 102--107
Anonymous Atlases on CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Extremely close encounters . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Morrison's ``Wonders'' and Burke's
``Connections'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Science-in-fiction . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Philip Morrison Commentaries: On Neutrino Astronomy . . 108--109
James Burke The Silk Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
Anne Eisenberg Essay: Doing Business on the Net . . . . 111--111
Anne Eisenberg Essay: Electronic commerce could drop
the Net on personal privacy . . . . . . 111
John Rennie Letter From the Editors . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Creationism in disguise . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Overlooked science . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous The trebuchet next door . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 1945: Atomic power prediction . . . . . 12
Anonymous 1895: The Electric Hen . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous 1845: Uncountable comets . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . 12
David Schneider Science and the Citizen: Tempest on the
High Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous The Analytical Economist: Indexing
inflation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Crowning the IgNobility . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Digesting global warming . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Danger at sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous The FAA puts planes in free flight . . . 14
Anonymous The genetics (and politics) of crime . . 14
Anonymous Golfers road test hydrogen cars . . . . 14
Anonymous Oily Federal deals . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Profile: Martin Gardner, alias Dr.
Matrix, the Mathematical Gamester . . . 14
Anonymous Rebellious kids in utero . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Sign language . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Technology and Business: Star Wars is
back: So what? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Uh, where's the outlet? . . . . . . . . 14
David Schneider Plug and Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
W. Wayt Gibbs Great Expectations . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
John Horgan A Sign is Born . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Steve Mirsky Home, Sweet Home . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Tim Beardsley Crime and Punishment . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
Rodger Doyle Suicide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Steve Mirsky You may already be a Wiener . . . . . . 24--24
Mervin Stykes And Those Other Ig Winners are\ldots . . 24--24
Madhusree Mukerjee About Face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
John Horgan The Struggle Within . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Glenn Zorpette Buy High, Sell Low . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
W. Wayt Gibbs Some like It Hot . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist: The Confusing
Price Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Daniel Dupont Technology and Business: The GOP Strikes
Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
W. Wayt Gibbs Artificial Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
W. Wayt Gibbs Free-for-All Flights . . . . . . . . . . 34--37
Gary Stix Nice Legs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
David Schneider Putting Greens . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--38
Philip Yam Profile: Martin Gardner: The
Mathematical Gamester . . . . . . . . . 38--41
Torrence V. Johnson The Galileo Mission . . . . . . . . . . 44--51
Michael J. Welsh and
Alan E. Smith Cystic Fibrosis . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--59
Paolo Heiniger Science in Pictures: The Leaning Tower
of Pisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--67
Paolo Heiniger The Leaning Tower of Pisa . . . . . . . 62 (Intl. ed. 44--??)
Roy D. Hyndman Giant Earthquakes of the Pacific
Northwest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
Gary Stix Trends in Defense Technology: Fighting
Future Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Jack Newman How Breast Milk Protects Newborns . . . 76--79
David J. Chalmers The Puzzle of Conscious Experience . . . 80--86
Shawn Carlson Measuring the Metabolism of Small
Organisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous The Anthropomorphic Principle . . . . . 86
Thomas Beth Confidential Communication On the
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--91 (Intl. ed. 70--73)
Gary Stix Trends in Defense Technology: Fighting
Future Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--98
Gary Stix Fighting Future Wars . . . . . . . . . . 92
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Measuring the
Metabolism of Small Organisms . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist: Measuring
micrometabolism: How fast does a beetle
breathe? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: The
Anthropomorphic Principle . . . . . . . 104--106
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations: Murphy's Law
demystified: Why toast falls butter-side
down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Reviews and Commentaries: The
\booktitleScientific American Young
Readers Book Awards . . . . . . . . . . 108--114
Anonymous Connections: Springs, steel and W.C.'s 108
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries . . . . . . . . 108
Anonymous The Scientific American Young Readers
Book Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
James Burke Commentaries: Top to Bottom . . . . . . 115--116
Anonymous Annual Index: Annual Index 1995 . . . . 117--119
James Boyk Essay: The Endangered Piano Technician 120--120
Anonymous Essay: James Boyk: Some of the most
virtuoso piano talent never perform
onstage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
John Rennie Letter From the Editor . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors: Fly the crowded
skies. How much energy?. The dilemmas of
AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: 1946: Making
high-octane gasoline 1896: The missing
link in Java. 1846: Mesmerizing crime 7
Anonymous Science and the Citizen: Culture and
mental illness. RNA and the origin of
life. Space junk. Quantum erasers.
Resistant microbes. The studs of
science. New planets. The Analytical
Economist --- Gutting social research 8
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Gary Stix Science and the Citizen: Listening to
Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--21
Madhusree Mukerjee Changing their Image . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Corey S. Powell Star Dreck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Corey S. Powell Strange Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Sasha Nemecek Virtual Pollution . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Steve Mirsky Into the Wild Green Yonder . . . . . . . 25--25
Tim Beardsley Resisting Resistance . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Phil Williams and
Paul N. Woessner The Real Threat of Nuclear Smuggling . . 26
Rodger Doyle Colorectal Cancer Mortality Among Men 27--27
John Horgan The World According to RNA . . . . . . . 27--30
Philip Yam Rubbed Out with the Quantum Eraser . . . 30--31
Sasha Nemecek Return of the Red Wolf . . . . . . . . . 31--32
Paul Wallich The Analytical Economist: Flying Blind 32--32
Glenn Zorpette Technology and Business: Return of the
Breeder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
John Browning Making Free Software Pay . . . . . . . . 35--35
Charles Seife Freewheeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Tom Abate The Midnight Hour . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
W. Wayt Gibbs Light Over Matter . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
W. Wayt Gibbs Playing Slartibartfast with Fractals . . 36--37
Susan Landau Profile: Joseph Rotblat: From Fission
Research to a Prize for Peace . . . . . 38--39
Phil Williams and
Paul N. Woessner The Real Threat of Nuclear Smuggling . . 40--44
G. Dan Hutcheson and
Jerry D. Hutcheson Technology and Economics in the
Semiconductor Industry . . . . . . . . . 40--46
Richard Weindruch Caloric Restriction and Aging . . . . . 46--52
G. Dan Hutcheson and
Jerry D. Hutcheson Technology and Economics in the
Semiconductor Industry . . . . . . . . . 54--62
Sten Grillner Neural Networks for Vertebrate
Locomotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--69
Karl Geert Malle Cleaning Up the River Rhine . . . . . . 70--75
Madhusree Mukerjee Trends in Theoretical Physics:
Explaining Everything . . . . . . . . . 72
S. Ross Taylor and
Scott M. McLennan The Evolution of Continental Crust . . . 76--81
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist: How to record and
collect the sounds of nature . . . . . . 80
Anonymous Recording Nature's Sounds . . . . . . . 80
Michael J. Schmidt Science in Pictures: Working Elephants 82--87
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations: The slippery
puzzle under Mother Worm's Blanket . . . 82
Michael J. Schmidt Working Elephants . . . . . . . . . . . 82 (Intl. ed. 66--??)
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries: The why of
sex. Hypertext . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
James Burke Connections: Hydraulics and cornflakes 84
Philip Morrison Wonders: A century of new physics . . . 84
Madhusree Mukerjee Trends in Theoretical Physics:
Explaining Everything . . . . . . . . . 88--94
Madhusree Mukerjee Explaining Everything . . . . . . . . . 88 (Intl. ed. 72--??)
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Recording
Nature's Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--97
Anonymous Amateur scientist . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Christian de Duve The evolution of life was not so
unlikely after all . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Mother Worm's
Blanket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries . . . . . . . . 102--105
Philip Morrison Head Start on the 20th Century . . . . . 106--107
James Burke Breakfast Thoughts . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Christian de Duve Essay: The Constraints of Chance . . . . 112--112
John Rennie Letter From the Editor . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors: Sex, evolution
and psychology. Identifying estrogens.
Physics survives . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: 1946: No
atomic cars. 1896: Spanish meteorite.
1846: Fire extinguisher . . . . . . . . 12
Gary Stix Science and the Citizen: Keeping
Vaccines Cold . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous The Analytical Economist: Communism's
new capitalist clothes . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Profile: Daniel C. Dennett explains
consciousness and unleashes Darwin . . . 14
Anonymous Science and the Citizen: Delivering
vaccines. Cooling budgets at the South
Pole. Schizophrenia. Virus amok Down
Under. How many doctors in the house?
Why France really wants nuclear tests.
The minority majority. Radar into the
past. Water fluoridation . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Technology and Business: Insurers fret
over climate change The evolving
Internet. History lesson for Bill Gates 14
Philip Yam Bose Knows P.R. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
John Horgan Frozen Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Corey S. Powell Radar Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Rodger Doyle Fluoridation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
David Schneider The Doctor Glut . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Gary Stix The Rainbow Majority . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Kristin Leutwyler Schizophrenia Revisited . . . . . . . . 22--23
Glenn Zorpette Going Out with a Bang . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Steve Mirsky Sinister Movements . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Charles Seife A Harebrained Scheme . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Paul Wallich Reaching an Economic Event Horizon . . . 26--26
Gary Stix Green Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
W. Wayt Gibbs A New Way to Spell Relief: V-e-n-o-m . . 28--30
John Browning Teleconomics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32b
Paul Wallich More Rules of the Road . . . . . . . . . 31--31
John Horgan Bill Gates's Apocryphal History . . . . 32--32b
Tim Beardsley Dennett's Dangerous Idea . . . . . . . . 34--35
J. Larry Brown and
Ernesto Pollitt Malnutrition, Poverty and Intellectual
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--43
Thomas A. Herring The Global Positioning System . . . . . 44--50 (Intl. ed. 32--38)
Michael J. Buckingham and
John R. Potter and
Chad L. Epifanio Seeing Underwater With Background Noise 86--90 (Intl. ed. 40--44)
Carol W. Greider and
Elizabeth H. Blackburn Telomeres, Telomerase and Cancer . . . . 92--97
Sylvain Veilleux and
Gerald Cecil and
Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn Colossal Galactic Explosions . . . . . . 98--103
Martin J. Blaser The Bacteria Behind Ulcers . . . . . . . 104--107
Londa Schiebinger The Loves of the Plants . . . . . . . . 110--115
Anonymous Growing Seedlings at Less Than 1 G . . . 110
Londa Schiebinger The Loves of the Plants . . . . . . . . 110 (Intl. ed. 98--??)
Anonymous Proof of Purchase on the Internet . . . 112
Donald H. Weingarten Quarks By Computer . . . . . . . . . . . 116--120
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Growing Seedlings
at Less than 1 G . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist: Simulating how
plants would grow on Mars . . . . . . . 122
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Proof of
Purchase on the Internet . . . . . . . . 124--125
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations: Zero-based
transactions: they know that you know
that they know . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries . . . . . . . . 126--129
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries: Star guides.
Ecology in error? . . . . . . . . . . . 126
James Burke Connections: Fairy tales and
photoelectricity . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Binary beauty . . . . . . . . . 126
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison The Physics of Binary Numbers . . . . . 130--131
James Burke Show Time! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--133
James Randi Essay: Investigating Miracles,
Italian-Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
James Randi Essay: These weeping Madonnas are less
than miraculous . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
John Rennie Letter From the Editor . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editors: Rising IQs.
Life's purpose. Alien abductions and
Freud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: 1945: X-rays
in factories. 1896: A pioneer of flight.
1846: Bigfoot or tall tale? . . . . . . 10
Paul Wallich and
Madhusree Mukerjee Science and the Citizen: Regulating the
Body Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous The Analytical Economist: Women's real
economic prospects . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Profile: Albert Libchaber brings order
to chaos studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Science and the Citizen: How much for
the liver?. NASA and nausea. Helium
shortage. Brazil's lost desert. Thirsty
moths. Viruses trace neurons. Cosmic
rays. Escher for the ear. Getting
Washington's goats . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Technology and Business: The scoop on
plutonium processing Military prototypes
in Bosnia. Public-key encryption at risk 12
Philip Yam Escher for the Ear . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
David Schneider Plane Scary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Corey S. Powell Out of this world . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Kristin Leutwyler Viral Tracers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
David Schneider Rain Forest Crunch . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Sasha Nemecek Rescuing an Endangered Tree . . . . . . 22--22
Karen Wright Getting the Goats . . . . . . . . . . . 22--26
Rodger Doyle Stroke Mortality in Men Ages 35 to 74 26--26
Steve Mirsky It's all happening at the Zoo(logy
Meeting) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Corey S. Powell No Light Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Kai Wu Pass the Salt, Please . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Paul Wallich Having It All . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Glenn Zorpette Hot Pork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Daniel G. Dupont Smart Shopping . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
W. Wayt Gibbs Tough Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Seife Bad Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Madhusree Mukerjee Seeing the World in a Snowflake . . . . 36--42
Jonas Rabinovitch and
Josef Leitmann Urban Planning in Curitiba . . . . . . . 46--53
Tom Gehrels Collisions with Comets and Asteroids . . 54--58
John C. Caldwell and
Pat Caldwell The African AIDS Epidemic . . . . . . . 62--68
S. Kivelson and
Dung-Hai Lee and
Shou-Cheng Zhang Electrons in flatland [quantum Hall
effect] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--69
James E. Rothman and
Lelio Orci Budding Vesicles in Living Cells . . . . 70--75
Dino A. Brugioni Science in Pictures: The Art and Science
of Photoreconnaissance . . . . . . . . . 78--85
Dino A. Brugioni The Art and Science of
Photoreconnaissance . . . . . . . . . . 78 (Intl. ed. 56--??)
Anonymous Exploring Chemical Bonds . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Playing with Quads and Quazars . . . . . 84
Steven Kivelson and
Dung-Hai Lee and
Shou-Cheng Zhang Electrons in Flatland . . . . . . . . . 86--91
Klaus Rützler and
Ilka C. Feller Caribbean Mangrove Swamps . . . . . . . 94--99
Tim Beardsley Trends in Human Genetics: Vital Data . . 100--105
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Exploring
Chemical Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist: Measuring the
strength of chemical bonds . . . . . . . 106
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Playing with
Quads and Quazars . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations: Squaring off
in a board game of Quads . . . . . . . . 108
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries . . . . . . . . 110--114
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries: Star Trek
physics. Surviving the future . . . . . 110
James Burke Connections: Code and commerce . . . . . 110
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Earth's asymmetries . . . . . . 110
Phylis Morrison and
Philip Morrison Symmetry and Symmetry-Breaking in South
Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--116
James Burke Satisfied Customers . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Anne Eisenberg Essay: Privacy and Data Collection on
the Net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Anne Eisenberg Essay: Data mining and privacy invasion
on the Net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
John Rennie From the Editors: Changing to Stay the
Same . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Gina Maranto News and Analysis: Embryo Overpopulation 16--18
Anonymous In Focus: Frozen embryos face an
uncertain tomorrow . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Philip Yam Attack of the Killer Neutrinos . . . . . 20--20
Tim Beardsley Out of Food? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Anonymous Science and the Citizen: Human ancestors
outside Africa. Polly wants a student.
Killer neutrinos. Antihydrogen . . . . . 20
Kristin Leutwyler In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--26
Madhusree Mukerjee The Berry and the Parasite . . . . . . . 22--26
Rodger Doyle Low-Birth-Weight Babies . . . . . . . . 24--25
Philip Yam A Smattering of Antimatter . . . . . . . 26--28
Madhusree Mukerjee Interview with a Parrot . . . . . . . . 28--28
John Horgan The not so Enormous Theorem . . . . . . 29--29
David Schneider Rocking Rocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--32
Madhusree Mukerjee Engendering Faces . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
John Browning The Perils of an Irregular Deregulation 33--33
Anonymous Cyber View: Censorship and the Telecoms
bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Gregory When Novelty is Not New . . . . . . . . 34--34
W. Wayt Gibbs Battling the Enemy Within . . . . . . . 34--36
Anonymous Technology and Business: Federal
software inefficiencies; Litigating the
science of implants . . . . . . . . . . 34
Sasha Nemecek Augmenting Discord . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38
Karla Harby A Discerning Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Marguerite Holloway Evolutionary Theories for Everyday Life 40--42
Anonymous Profile: Biologist Margie Profet argues
why sickness makes sense . . . . . . . . 40
Yuri M. Shcherbak Confronting The Nuclear Legacy --- Part
I: Ten Years of the Chornobyl Era . . . 44--49
Yuri M. Shcherbak Ten Years of the Chornobyl Era . . . . . 44 (Intl. ed. 32--??)
Christian de Duve The Birth of Complex Cells . . . . . . . 50--57
Christian De Dave Birth of complex cells . . . . . . . . . 50
Christian de Duve The Birth of Complex Cells . . . . . . . 50 (Intl. ed. 38--??)
J. Roger P. Angel and
Neville J. Woolf Searching for Life on Other Planets . . 60--66
J. Roger and
P. Angel and
Neville J. Woolf Searching for Life on Other Planets . . 60 (Intl. ed. 46--??)
Alex P. Pentland Smart Rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--76
David F. Musto Alcohol in American History . . . . . . 78--83
Gary Stix Trends in Nanotechnology: Waiting for
Breakthroughs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
David A. Grimaldi Science in Pictures: Captured in Amber 84--91
Anonymous The New Backyard Seismology . . . . . . 84
David A. Grimaldi Captured in Amber . . . . . . . . . . . 84 (Intl. ed. 70--??)
Anonymous How Fair is Monopoly? . . . . . . . . . 86
Gary Stix Trends in Nanotechnology: Waiting for
Breakthroughs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--99
Gary Stix Waiting for Breakthroughs . . . . . . . 94
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: The New Backyard
Seismology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--102
Anonymous Monitoring earthquakes in your backyard 100
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: How Fair is
Monopoly? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Anonymous Probability shows why all's fair in
Monopoly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries: Do dinosaur
books savage paleontology?. Numskull
numbers. Monkeying with science . . . . 108--111
James Burke Connections: From hot coffee to
evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Apartheid's electronic legacy 108
Phylis Morrison and
Philip Morrison Symmetries and Civilizations . . . . . . 112--114
James Burke What's in a Name? . . . . . . . . . . . 113--115
Martin I. Jacobs Working Knowledge: Unzipping Velcro . . 116--116
Anonymous What puts the zip in this fastener . . . 116
John Rennie From the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Harold P. Hanson Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous In Focus: Physicians still do not honor
living wills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Science and the Citizen: Medical trials
in question. The future chess champion.
Biodiversity and productivity. What pigs
think . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
John Horgan News and Analysis: Right to Die . . . . 12--14
John Horgan Plotting the Next Move . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Kristin Leutwyler X Marks the Spots . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Kristin Leutwyler In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--22
Anonymous Cyber View: Broadcasting on a narrow
medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Technology and Business: A tailless
airplane. Fake muscles, real bones.
Wandering genes . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Charles Seife Relatively Expensive . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Paul Wallich Not so Blind, after all . . . . . . . . 20--22
Steve Mirsky Pork Barrel Science . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Madhusree Mukerjee Sowing where you Reap . . . . . . . . . 23--25
Rodger Doyle Carbon Dioxide Emissions . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Profile: Distinguished naturalist Miriam
Rothschild defies categorization . . . . 24
David Schneider The More Species, the Merrier . . . . . 26--26
Glenn Zorpette Electric Smile-Aid . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Gino Strada The Horror of Land Mines . . . . . . . . 26
John Browning Television Arrives on the Internet . . . 28--28
W. Wayt Gibbs Systematic Errors . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Anne Eisenberg Recently Netted\ldots . . . . . . . . . 32--32
W. Wayt Gibbs On Permanent Displays . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Jane X. Luu and
David C. Jewitt The Kuiper Belt . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Tim Beardsley Advantage: Nature . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
W. Wayt Gibbs Make a Muscle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Philip Yam Remote Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Glenn Zorpette Winging It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Marguerite Holloway A Natural History of Fleas and
Butterflies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38
Gino Strada The Horror of Land Mines . . . . . . . . 40--45
Frederica P. Perera Uncovering New Clues to Cancer Risk . . 40
Jane X. Luu and
David C. Jewitt The Kuiper Belt . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--52
Frederica P. Perera Uncovering New Clues to Cancer Risk . . 54--62
David G. Myers and
Ed Diener The Pursuit of Happiness . . . . . . . . 54
Pierre Beland The Beluga Whales of the St. Lawrence
River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Kenneth P. Birman and
Robbert van Renesse Software for Reliable Networks . . . . . 64--69
John R. Hale The Lost Technology of Ancient Greek
Rowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
David G. Myers and
Ed Diener The Pursuit of Happiness . . . . . . . . 70--72
Glenn Zorpette Hanford's Nuclear Wasteland . . . . . . 72
Pierre Béland The Beluga Whales of the St. Lawrence
River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--81
John R. Hale The Lost Technology of Ancient Greek
Rowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--85
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist: Detecting
low-frequency electromagnetic waves . . 82
Anonymous MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS: Fractal
sculpture turns cubes into flowing
spirals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Anonymous The Sculptures of Alan St George . . . . 86
Glenn Zorpette Confronting The Nuclear Legacy --- Part
II: Hanford's Nuclear Wasteland . . . . 88--97
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries: Four books
make complexity less confusing. The Bomb
on CD-ROM. Endangered flora. Darwin goes
to the movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
James Burke Connections: From phonetic writing to
stained brains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Philip Morrison Wonders: Finding invisible planets . . . 88
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Why elevators are
safe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Detecting Natural
Electromagnetic Waves . . . . . . . . . 98--101
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: The Sculptures
of Alan St. George . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries . . . . . . . . 104--108
Philip Morrison Planet-Tude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--111
James Burke Highbrow Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
William Sheeran Working Knowledge: Vertical Safety . . . 112--112
John Rennie From the Editor: The Space Station's
Disappointing Odyssey . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous In Focus: China's plans for ``peaceful''
atomic tests inspire unease . . . . . . 9
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Science and the Citizen: Downtown on the
farm. Life on the Unabomber's list.
Galileo at Jupiter. Lizard kings.
Forecasting Alzheimer's . . . . . . . . 12
John Horgan News and Analysis: ``Peaceful'' Nuclear
Explosions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
W. Wayt Gibbs Star-Hopping by the Outhouse . . . . . . 18--18
Gary Stix Urbaculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--24
Anonymous Cyber View: Keeping databases under lock
and key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Glenn Zorpette Forecast: Dry and Windy . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINES': Mind reading
for movement. Cruising by balloon.
Super-ultrasound . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Ken Howard Artful Dating . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anne Eisenberg Among the Papers in Kaczynski's Cabin 25--25
Steve Mirsky The Lizard Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Paul Wallich Senile Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Rodger Doyle AIDS Cases Reported, 1994--1995 . . . . 28--28
John Browning Playing Facts and Loose . . . . . . . . 30--32
Anonymous Profile: Demographic criminologist James
Alan Fox braces for a crime wave . . . . 30
W. Wayt Gibbs Ultrasound's New Phase . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Lucien P. Randazzese Semiconductor Subsidies . . . . . . . . 32
W. Wayt Gibbs Mind Readings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
David Schneider Good Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38
Tim Beardsley Trends in Space Science: Science in the
Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Tim Beardsley Testing, Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
Daniel G. Dupont Up, Up and Away . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Philip Yam Catching a Coming Crime Wave . . . . . . 40--44
Jay T. Kearney Training the Olympic Athlete . . . . . . 44
Lucien P. Randazzese Semiconductor Subsidies . . . . . . . . 46--49
Jay T. Kearney Training the Olympic Athlete . . . . . . 50--63
Chris G. Whipple Can nuclear waste be stored safely at
Yucca Mountain? . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--64
Tim Beardsley Trends in Space Science: Science in the
Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--70
Chris G. Whipple Confronting The Nuclear Legacy: Can
Nuclear Waste Be Stored Safely at Yucca
Mountain? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--79
Gregory S. Paul The Art of Charles R. Knight . . . . . . 74
Jeremy Bernstein The Reluctant Father of Black Holes
[Einstein] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--85
K. C. Nicolaou and
Rodney K. Guy and
Pierre Potier Taxoids: New Weapons Against Cancer . . 84
Gregory S. Paul Science in Pictures: The Art of Charles
R. Knight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--93
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist: A
professional-quality balance without a
heavy price tag . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Anonymous Homemade Microgram Electrobalances . . . 90
Anonymous MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS: An overlooked
numerical series spins out things of
beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Anonymous Tales of a Neglected Number . . . . . . 92
K. C. Nicolaou and
Rodney K. Guy and
Pierre Potier Taxoids: New Weapons against Cancer . . 94--98
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries: Amazonian
riches. The haunting lure of
pseudoscience. On-line onstage.
Chemistry's yin and yang . . . . . . . . 94
James Burke Connections: From galvanized
Frankenstein to atomized gasoline . . . 94
Philip Morrison Wonders: The intense science of creating
high pressures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Homemade
Microgram Electrobalances . . . . . . . 100--101
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Tales of a
Neglected Number . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries . . . . . . . . 106--112
Philip Morrison Under Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--115
James Burke Out of Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Anonymous WORKING KNOWLEDGE: The fleet inflation
of air bags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Robert E. Resh Working Knowledge: Air Bags . . . . . . 116--116
John Rennie From the Editor: Glimpses of the
Familiar but Unknown . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous IN FOCUS: It's rise-and-shine time for
sleep research . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Tim Beardsley News and Analysis: Waking Up . . . . . . 14--18
Anonymous Science and the Citizen: Supersymmetry.
Linear A not just Greek to
archaeologists. Measuring the quality of
life. Arguments over aquaculture . . . . 14
David Schneider Pot Luck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Cyber View: Couch potatoes pull up their
roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Philip Yam Mirror, Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--26
Anonymous Technology and Business: Micro-optics on
a microchip. A telescope better than
Hubble. Shining leaves. Going critical 21
Madhusree Mukerjee Pink Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
John Horgan Headshrinker Convention . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Profile: Contraceptives pioneer G. P.
Talwar takes on nature and critics . . . 26
Rodger Doyle The Changing Quality of Life . . . . . . 28--28
Steve Mirsky Wonderful Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
John Horgan Group Think . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
David Schneider Triassic Bug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
John Browning New Stars for the New Media . . . . . . 31--31
Gary Stix Light Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Tim Beardsley Treble Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Paul Wallich Panacea Lost? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--36
Glenn Zorpette The Underwater Lightness of Being . . . 36--36
Glenn Zorpette Keeping the ``Tiger'' at Bay . . . . . . 36--37
Sasha Nemecek Leaf it to Them . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Madhusree Mukerjee Pushing the Envelope for Vaccines . . . 38--40
David J. Leffell and
Douglas E. Brash Sunlight and Skin Cancer . . . . . . . . 38
Alan E. Bell The Future of Compact Disk Technology:
Next-Generation Compact Discs . . . . . 42--46
Alan E. Bell Next Generation Compact Discs . . . . . 42--46 (Intl. ed. 28)
Stephen W. Hawking and
Roger Penrose The Nature of Space and Time . . . . . . 44
Robert L. Gunshor and
Arto V. Nurmikko Blue-Laser CD Technology . . . . . . . . 48--51
Max Aguilera Hellweg The Hidden World of Surgery . . . . . . 50
David J. Leffell and
Douglas E. Brash Sunlight and Skin Cancer . . . . . . . . 52--59
Douglas H. Erwin The Mother of Mass Extinctions . . . . . 56
Stephen W. Hawking and
Roger Penrose The Nature of Space and Time . . . . . . 60--65
Ann Okerson Who Owns Digital Works? . . . . . . . . 64--68
Max Aguilera-Hellweg Science in Pictures: The Hidden World of
Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
Sasha N. Zill and
Ernst-August Seyfarth Exoskeletal Sensors for Walking . . . . 70
Douglas H. Erwin The Mother of Mass Extinctions . . . . . 72--78
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Covert
Observations of Nesting Sparrows . . . . 76
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations: Knotty
arithmetic unravels shoelaces . . . . . 78
Ann Okerson Who Owns Digital Works? . . . . . . . . 80--84
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries: An odd but
fitting museum of humanity. The life of
Linus Pauling. Double takes on digital
photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
James Burke Connections: From pneumatic dredgers to
grand opera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Philip Morrison Wonders: Sunless life on the seafloor 82
Sasha N. Zill and
Ernst-August Seyfarth Exoskeletal Sensors for Walking . . . . 86--90
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Covert
Observations of Nesting Sparrows . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Illuminating halogen
lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Arithmetic and
Old Lace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--97
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries . . . . . . . . 98--103
Philip Morrison Gutless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--107
James Burke Folies de Grandeur . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
Terry McGowan Working Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
John Rennie From the Editors: Aliens at Play . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Kristin Leutwyler News and Analysis: Paying Attention . . 12--14
Anonymous Attention-deficit disorder comes under
close scrutiny . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Gary Stix Public Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Anonymous Science and the Citizen: Watchdogging
governments from orbit. Zebra mussels:
the good, the bad and the ugly. Space
weather. Fertility transplant . . . . . 18
Paul Wallich The Wall Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Kristin Leutwyler In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--24
Glenn Zorpette Mussel Mayhem, Continued . . . . . . . . 22--23
Gunjan Sinha A New King and His Tiny Minion . . . . . 24--24
Corey S. Powell The Blustery Void . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Steve Mirsky Patient, Smell Thyself . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Rodger Doyle Lethal Accidents, 1979--1992 . . . . . . 26--26
Tim Beardsley Mouse To Father Rat? . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
David Schneider Insects of Generation X . . . . . . . . 28--28
John Browning The Notworking Computer . . . . . . . . 30--31
Anonymous Cyber View: Networking the wrong way . . 30
Anne Eisenberg Recently Netted\ldots . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Philip Yam Magnet on the Brain . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Technology and Business: Steering drugs
magnetically. Gene patent overload.
Digital fingerprinting . . . . . . . . . 32
Gregory Aharonian Too Much for Too Little . . . . . . . . 33--33
Gunjan Sinha The Right Touch . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
W. Wayt Gibbs One Small Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--35
Sasha Nemecek Coat of Many Colors . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Tim Beardsley Exploring the Business of Space . . . . 36--38
Anonymous Profile: Space entrepreneur Shelley A.
Harrison sees commerce taking flight . . 36
Christiane Nüsslein Volhard Gradients that Organize Embryo
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Carol H. Fancher Smart Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--45
Elizabeth Nesme-Ribes and
Sallie L. Baliunas and
Dmitry Sokoloff The Stellar Dynamo . . . . . . . . . . . 46--52
J. R. Kirtley and
C. C. Tsuei Probing high-temperature
superconductivity . . . . . . . . . . . 50--55
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Gradients That Organize Embryo
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
Walter N. Mack and
Elizabeth A. Leistikow Science in Pictures: Sands of the World 62--67
Walter N. Mack and
Elizabeth A. Leistikow Sands of the World . . . . . . . . . . . 62 (Intl. ed. 44--??)
John R. Kirtley and
Chang C. Tsuei Probing High Temperature
Superconductivity . . . . . . . . . . . 68--73
W. Wayt Gibbs Trends in Medicine: Gaining on Fat . . . 70
Jacques De Keersmaecker The Mystery of Lambic Beer . . . . . . . 74--80
Anonymous Detecting Micron-Size Movements . . . . 78
Anonymous Shedding a Little Darkness . . . . . . . 81
Ken Marten and
Karim Shariff and
Suchi Psarakos and
Don J. White Ring Bubbles of Dolphins . . . . . . . . 82--87
W. Wayt Gibbs Trends in Medicine: Gaining on Fat . . . 88--94
W. Wayt Gibbs Gaining on Fat: Obesity plagues the
industrial world. Don't blame sloth or
gluttony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Detecting
Micron-Size Movements . . . . . . . . . 96--99
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist: A micromotion
detector counts insect heartbeats . . . 96
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Shedding a
Little Darkness . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--103
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations: Searching for
shadows in rooms made of mirrors . . . . 100
Ben Davis Reviews and Commentaries: The Culture
Machine: Science and Art on the Web . . 104--108
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries: Can art thrive
on the Net?. Colors of the reef. Digital
storm chasing. Feynman found . . . . . . 104
James Burke Connections: From the shape of the Earth
to the Scottish rebellion . . . . . . . 104
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Urban agriculture teaches old
lessons of the soil . . . . . . . . . . 104
Phylis Morrison and
Philip Morrison Great Books and City Crops . . . . . . . 109--111
James Burke A Lot of Boloney . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Raymond Heidel Working Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Jackpot! Inside a
slot machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
John Rennie From the Editors: Reasons for Hope . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Tim Beardsley News and Analysis: HIV's Achilles' Heel 16--18
Anonymous New drugs, in new combinations, offer
relief from AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Glenn Zorpette A Day at the Armageddon Factory . . . . 20--20
Corey S. Powell and
Madhusree Mukerjee Cosmic Puffery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Anonymous Science and the Citizen: Cosmological
theory begins to deflate. Pollution
relief. Taking apart the bomb . . . . . 20
Kristin Leutwyler In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--26
Sasha Nemecek Mysterious Maladies . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Gunjan Sinha Smog From Space . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
Steve Mirsky Put a Sock on It . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Rodger Doyle World Birth-Control Use . . . . . . . . 34--34
John Browning The Internet is Learning to Censor
Itself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Cyber View: Can PICS police the
Internet? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
David Schneider Alarming Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--42
Anonymous Technology and Business: Artificial
blood starts circulating. Fishermen
sound off for porpoises. Encryption
chaos continues . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
W. Wayt Gibbs New Chip off the Old Block . . . . . . . 42--44
Tim Beardsley For Your Eyes Only? . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
W. Wayt Gibbs Artificial Blood Quickens . . . . . . . 44--48
Anne Eisenberg Recently Netted\ldots . . . . . . . . . 48--48
W. Wayt Gibbs Profile: T. V. Raman: Envisioning Speech 52, 54
W. Wayt Gibbs Envisioning Speech . . . . . . . . . . . 52--54
Lori Miller Kase Why Community Cancer Clusters are Often
Ignored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
John Rennie and
Ricki Rusting Introduction: Making Headway against
Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--59
John Rennie and
Ricki Rusting Making Headway Against Cancer . . . . . 56 (Intl. ed. 28--??)
Anonymous Fundamental Understandings . . . . . . . 61--61
Robert A. Weinberg Fundamental Understandings: How Cancer
Arises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--70
Robert A. Weinberg How Cancer Arises . . . . . . . . . . . 62 (Intl. ed. 32--??)
Erkki Ruoslahti How Cancer Spreads . . . . . . . . . . . 72--77
Maryellen L. Giger and
Charles A. Pelizzari Advances in Tumor Imaging . . . . . . . 76
Anonymous Causes and Prevention . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Dimitrios Trichopoulos and
Frederick P. Li and
David J. Hunter Causes and Prevention: What Causes
Cancer? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--87
Dimitrios Trichopoulos and
Frederick P. Li and
David J. Hunter What Causes Cancer? . . . . . . . . . . 80 (Intl. ed. 50--??)
Lori Miller Kase Why Community Cancer Clusters Are Often
Ignored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Walter C. Willett and
Graham A. Colditz and
Nancy E. Mueller Strategies for Minimizing Cancer Risk 88--95
Peter Greenwald Chemoprevention of Cancer . . . . . . . 96--99
Nancy E. Davidson Current Controversy: Is Hormone
Replacement Therapy a Risk? . . . . . . 101--101
Nancy E. Davidson Is Hormone Replacement Therapy a Risk? 101 (Intl. ed. 68--??)
Anonymous Toward Earlier Detection . . . . . . . . 103--103
David Sidransky Toward Earlier Detection: Advances in
Cancer Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--109
David Sidransky Advances in Cancer Detection . . . . . . 104 (Intl. ed. 70--??)
Gary Stix Is Genetic Testing Premature? . . . . . 107 (Intl. ed. 73--??)
Maryellen L. Giger and
Charles A. Pelizzari Advances in Tumor Imaging . . . . . . . 110--112
Gina Maranto Should Women in Their 40s Have
Mammograms? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
Gerald E. Hanks and
Peter T. Scardino Does Screening for Prostate Cancer Make
Sense? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Judah Folkman Fighting Cancer by at Tacking its Blood
Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous Improving Conventional Therapy . . . . . 117--117
Samuel Hellman and
Everett E. Vokes Imroving Conventional Therapy: Advancing
Current Treatments for Cancer . . . . . 118--123
Samuel Hellman and
Everett E. Vokes Advancing Current Treatments for Cancer 118 (Intl. ed. 84--??)
Karen Antman When Are Bone Marrow Transplants
Considered? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--125
The Editors Fact Sheet: Twelve Major Cancers . . . . 126--132
Anonymous Twelve Major Cancers . . . . . . . . . . 126
Anonymous The Pleasures of Exploring Ponds . . . . 132
Anonymous The Interrogator's Fallacy . . . . . . . 134
Anonymous Therapies of the Future . . . . . . . . 135--135
Lloyd J. Old Therapies of The Future: Immunotherapy
for Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--143
Lloyd J. Old Immunotherapy for Cancer . . . . . . . . 136 (Intl. ed. 102--??)
Allen Oliff and
Jackson B. Gibbs and
Frank McCormick New Molecular Targets for Cancer Therapy 144--149
Judah Folkman Fighting Cancer by Attacking Its Blood
Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--154
Anonymous Living with Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Jimmie C. Holland Living With Cancer: Cancer's
Psychological Challenges . . . . . . . . 158--161
Jimmie C. Holland Cancer's Psychological Challenges . . . 158 (Intl. ed. 122--??)
Jean-Jacques Aulas Alternative Cancer Treatments . . . . . 162--163
Kathleen M. Foley Controlling the Pain of Cancer . . . . . 164--165
W. Wayt Gibbs What Are Obstacles to Ideal Care? . . . 166--166
The Editors Finding More Information . . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous Finding More Information . . . . . . . . 167
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: The Pleasures of
Exploring Ponds . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--171
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist: Small ponds hold
plenty of wildlife for the backyard
naturalist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: The
Interrogator's Fallacy . . . . . . . . . 172--175
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations: Guilty or
innocent? Calculate the odds that a
confession is true . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries . . . . . . . . 176--180
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries: The animal
origins of human morality. The alphabet
takes wing. Specious thinking on
pollution's dangers . . . . . . . . . . 176
James Burke Connections: From bottled veggies to a
pointillist picnic . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Owen Gingerich Wonders: The scientific value of
prediction is overrated . . . . . . . . 176
Owen Gingerich Neptune, Velikovsky and the Name of the
Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--183
James Burke Impressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
Herbert Aschkenasy Working Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
Anonymous Working Knowledge: How to freeze-dry
anything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
John Rennie From the Editors: Microbes from Mars?
Maybe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
W. Wayt Gibbs and
Corey S. Powell News and Analysis: Bugs in the Data? . . 20--22
Anonymous In Focus: Life on Mars: How does the
evidence hold up? . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Madhusree Mukerjee Fish Fight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Glenn Zorpette Building a Better T-Bone . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Science and the Citizen: Earth's
wrong-way core. Tasmanian tiger hunt.
Hurricanes may be gone with the wind . . 24
Kristin Leutwyler and
Gunjan Sinha In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Daniel Drollette A Spinning Crystal Ball . . . . . . . . 28--33
David Schneider On the Tail of the Tiger . . . . . . . . 32--33
Rodger Doyle Soil Erosion of Cropland in the U.S.,
1982 to 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
David Schneider Hurricane Hullabaloo? . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Steve Mirsky Just Say NO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Philip Yam Unicorn Hunts? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
John Browning Television by Any Other Name . . . . . . 40--40
Anonymous Cyber View: Networking in Europe . . . . 40
Glenn Zorpette ``X'' (Rays) Mark the Tumor . . . . . . 44--45
Anonymous Technology and Business: Programming
computers genetically. Defense work
helps cancer researchers . . . . . . . . 44
Tim Beardsley Picking on Cotton . . . . . . . . . . . 45--48
W. Wayt Gibbs Programming with Primordial Ooze . . . . 48--50
J. Krim Friction at the atomic scale . . . . . . 48--51, 54--56
Anne Eisenberg Recently Netted\ldots . . . . . . . . . 50--50
Gary Stix Probing Medicine's Outer Reaches . . . . 52--56
Anonymous Profile: Wayne B. Jonas redirects the
Office of Alternative Medicine . . . . . 52
Ellen L. Bassuk and
Angela Browne and
John C. Buckner Single Mothers and Welfare: Contrary to
popular stereotypes, few low-income
single mothers are teenagers or
second-generation welfare recipients . . 60--67
James K. Fredrickson and
Tullis C. Onstott Microbes Deep Inside the Earth . . . . . 68--73
Steven Miller How an Underwater Habitat Benefits
Marine Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Jacqueline Krim Friction at the Atomic Scale . . . . . . 74--80 (Intl. ed. 48)
Hugh S. Lusted and
R. Benjamin Knapp Controlling Computers with Neural
Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--87 (Intl. ed. 58--63)
Marguerite Holloway Trends in Ecology: Sounding out Science 82
Peter J. Edmunds Ten Days Under the Sea . . . . . . . . . 88--95
Anonymous Working in a Vacuum . . . . . . . . . . 90
Anonymous Monopoly Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Richard Milner Charles Darwin and Associates,
Ghostbusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--101
John L. Casti Confronting Science's Logical Limits . . 102--105
Marguerite Holloway Trends in Ecology: Sounding Out Science 106--112
Marguerite Holloway Sounding Out Science . . . . . . . . . . 106
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Working in a
Vacuum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Anonymous Homemade vacuum chambers fill a void for
experimenters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Monopoly
Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--119
Anonymous Go Directly to Jail: revisiting the
fairness of Monopoly . . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries . . . . . . . . 120--124
Anonymous Why things go wrong. The making of a
physician. Fusion on film in Chain
Reaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
James Burke Connections: Fingerprinting, tanks and
the average Joe . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Philip Morrison Wonders: The Old World, the New World
and humanity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Philip Morrison New World and Old: a Matter of Magnitude 125--127
James Burke Making Your Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
Chip Holt Working Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous How photocopiers work . . . . . . . . . 128
John Rennie From the Editor: An Honest Quantum Con
Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
W. Wayt Gibbs News and Analysis: The Price of Silence 15--16
Anonymous In Focus: Academic researchers choke on
industrial gag rules . . . . . . . . . . 15
Tim Beardsley Bring Me a Shrubbery . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
David Schneider Hot Jupiters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Anonymous Science and the Citizen: How giant
planets get close to stars\ldots
Self-organizing particles\ldots. Gossip
as grooming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Kristin Leutwyler In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--28
John Horgan Multicultural Studies . . . . . . . . . 24--28
Madhusree Mukerjee Science with Brass . . . . . . . . . . . 28--36
Rodger Doyle Global Forest Cover . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Gary Stix Different Strokes . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Steve Mirsky On Presidents and King . . . . . . . . . 37--37
John Browning The Rosetta Hack . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Cyber View: Still waiting for automatic
translators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
W. Wayt Gibbs Pressure to Change . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Anonymous Technology and Business: Artificial
heart\ldots Supercritical CO2 for
superstrength\ldots Molding drug
molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Daniel G. Dupont and
Richard Lardner Needles in a Cold War Haystack . . . . . 41--44
Gunjan Sinha Pump It Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--45
Paul Wallich Molecular Molds . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46
Gary Stix Pictures Worth a Thousand Cameras . . . 46--46
Tim Beardsley Starting with a Clean Slate . . . . . . 50--52
Anonymous Profile: Geneticist Thereza
Imanishi-Kari, exonerated at last . . . 50
Daniel Sperling The Case for Electric Vehicles . . . . . 54--59
Gregory Beck and
Gail S. Habicht The Evolution of The Immune System:
Immunity and the Invertebrates . . . . . 60--66
Gregory Beck and
Gail S. Habicht Immunity and the Invertebrates . . . . . 60 (Intl. ed. 42--??)
Gary W. Litman Sharks and the Origins of Vertebrate
Immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--71
Paul Kwiat and
Harald Weinfurter and
Anton Zeilinger Quantum Seeing in the Dark . . . . . . . 72--78
Jeffrey S. Kargel and
Robert G. Strom Global Climatic Change on Mars . . . . . 80--88
Roy L. Prosterman and
Tim Hanstad and
Li Ping Can China Feed Itself? . . . . . . . . . 90--96
Anonymous Much Ado About Nothing . . . . . . . . . 94
Anonymous A Guide to Computer Dating . . . . . . . 96
Sally E. Shaywitz Dyslexia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--104
Anne Solomon Rock Art in Southern Africa . . . . . . 106--113
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Much Ado about
Nothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist: Fun with a jar
full of nothing . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: a Guide to
Computer Dating . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--118
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations: Will January
1, 1,000,000 A.D., be a Tuesday? . . . . 116
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries . . . . . . . . 119--123
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries: Ranking the
CD-ROM encyclopedias\ldots. The physics
of God, and vice versa\ldots The morose
Island of Dr. Brando . . . . . . . . . . 119
James Burke Connections: Bagging buzz bombs and
snapping stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Philip Morrison Wonders: On the trail of giant squid . . 119
Philip Morrison Giant against Giant in the Dark . . . . 124--126
James Burke What Goes Around Comes Around . . . . . 125--126
Edgar W. Aust Working Knowledge: Television Ratings 127--127
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Watching you watch
television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
John Rennie From the Editors: Experienced Readers
for Young Minds . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Tim Beardsley News and Analysis: Deadly Enigma . . . . 16--18
Anonymous Safeguarding against ``mad cow disease''
grows more maddening . . . . . . . . . . 16
W. Wayt Gibbs Jungle Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Glenn Zorpette Down the Drain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--24
Anonymous Russia dumps its nuclear waste. Guppy
love. Unmeltable ice. The Ig Nobels for
1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Kristin Leutwyler In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--30
John Horgan Beyond the Test Ban . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
Rodger Doyle Deaths Caused by Alcohol . . . . . . . . 30--31
Brenda DeKoker Sex and the Spinal Cord . . . . . . . . 30--32
Steve Mirsky The Victors Go Despoiled . . . . . . . . 32--32
Madhusree Mukerjee Hard to Melt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--36
Tim Beardsley Fear and Fecundity . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
W. Wayt Gibbs Snap, Crunch or GigaPOP? . . . . . . . . 38--40
Anonymous A less equal, more dependable Net . . . 38
Glenn Zorpette The Sale of a New Machine . . . . . . . 40--44
Anonymous Scientific computing's last stand.
Electric polymers Welding with a match 40
W. Wayt Gibbs Where the Wind Blows . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Erica Garcia Welding with a Match . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Kristin Leutwyler Plastic Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--48
Anne Eisenberg Recently Netted\ldots . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Richard C. Duke and
David M. Ojcius and
John Ding-E Young Cell Suicide in Health and Disease . . . 48
Marguerite Holloway The Man Who Would Conquer Malaria . . . 52--56
Anonymous Manuel Elkin Patarroyo tests his malaria
vaccine, despite controversy . . . . . . 52
Leonard A. Cole The Specter of Biological Weapons . . . 60--65
Craig J. Hogan Primordial Deuterium and the Big Bang 68--73 (Intl. ed. 36)
Richard W. Siegel Creating Nanophase Materials . . . . . . 74--79 (Intl. ed. 42)
Richard C. Duke and
David M. Ojcius and
John Ding-E Young Cell Suicide in Health and Disease . . . 80--87
Anonymous Dissecting the Brain with Sound . . . . 80
Richard C. Duke David M. Ojcius and
John Ding-E Young Cell Suicide in Health and Disease . . . 80
Anonymous Cows in the Maze . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Lars O. Hedin and
Gene E. Likens Atmospheric Dust and Acid Rain . . . . . 88--92 (Intl. ed. 56)
Barbara Webb A Cricket Robot . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--99 (Intl. ed. 62)
Andrea G. McDowell Daily Life in Ancient Egypt . . . . . . 100--105
John Horgan Trends in Psychology: Why Freud Isn't
Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--111
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Dissecting the
Brain with Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--115
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist: Experiment on
your own brain (safely) with a new CD 112
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Cows in the
Maze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--118
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations: Moo-ving
through the logical maze of Where Are
the Cows? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Reviews and Commentaries: The
\booktitleScientific American Young
Readers Book Awards . . . . . . . . . . 120--125
James Burke Connections: Hot cocoa, German
gymnastics and Lucky Lindy . . . . . . . 120
Phylis Morrison and
Philip Morrison The Scientific American Young Readers
Book Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
James Burke Sweet Dreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
Anonymous Annual Index 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . 129--131
Wesley G. Rogers Working Knowledge: Pop Tops . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Can-do thinking
behind the pop top . . . . . . . . . . . 132
John Rennie From the Editor: Defending Reason
Reasonably . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
John Rennie and
Paul Wallich and
Philip Yam Special Briefing: The 1996 Nobel Prizes
in Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--18
Anonymous The 1996 Nobel Prizes for Science: An
overview of the outstanding work that
took the honors in physics, chemistry,
medicine and economics . . . . . . . . . 14
David Schneider and
W. Wayt Gibbs News and Analysis: Flight of Fancy . . . 22--24
Anonymous In Focus: Submarine Deep Flight readies
for the seafloor, but some ask why . . . 22
Madhusree Mukerjee Suburban Amber . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Tim Beardsley Steps to Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Anonymous Science and the Citizen: Stars in the
blink of an eye\ldots Volcano
forecasting\ldots. Regrowing neurons . . 26
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Corey S. Powell All in the Timing . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
David Schneider Awaiting the Big Bang? . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Steve Mirsky Chewing the Fat . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Rodger Doyle Threatened Mammals . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Glenn Zorpette Do Try This @Home . . . . . . . . . . . 33--36
Anonymous Profile: Cable-modem maven Milo Medin 33
Tim Beardsley Fetal Checkup . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Technology and Business: Easier prenatal
tests\ldots. Squeezing more into data
lines \ldots Micro-fan . . . . . . . . . 38
Tim Beardsley Chilling Chips . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Tim Beardsley More Gallons Per Mile . . . . . . . . . 40--41
W. Wayt Gibbs Bandwidth, Unlimited . . . . . . . . . . 41--41
John Browning No More 9 to 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Anonymous Cyber View: Recomputing work . . . . . . 42
James W. Cronin and
Thomas K. Gaisser and
Simon P. Swordy Cosmic Rays at the Energy Frontier . . . 44--49
Moussa B. H. Youdim and
Peter Riederer Understanding Parkinson's Disease . . . 52--59
Parviz Moin and
John Kim Tackling Turbulence with Supercomputers 62--68
William H. Velander and
Henryk Lubon and
William N. Drohan Transgenic Livestock as Drug Factories 70--74
John M. Kennedy How the Blind Draw . . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
Michael P. Collier and
Robert H. Webb and
Edmund D. Andrews Experimental Flooding in Grand Canyon 82--89
Gene Dannen The Einstein--Szilard Refrigerators . . 90--95
Anonymous Trends in Society: Science versus
Antiscience? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--101
Gary Stix and
Sasha Nemecek and
Philip Yam Science versus Antiscience? . . . . . . 96
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Catch a Comet by
Its Tail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--105
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist: Sky watchers can
make history by studying Comet
Hale--Bopp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Alphamagic
Squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--109
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations: Presto chango!
An alphabetical twist on math's ``magic
squares.'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries: Reviews and
commentaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--115
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries: Two books on
aging need to mature\ldots Space station
in 3-D\ldots. Human evolution\ldots.
Happy birthday, HAL . . . . . . . . . . 110
James Burke Connections: Butterflies, birth control
and vitamin B1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Philip Morrison Wonders: The unpredictable reshuffling
of the planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Philip Morrison Doing the Poincaré Shuffle . . . . . . . 116--118
James Burke A Bit of a Flutter . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Rich Brown Working Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous Working Knowledge: The cold, hard facts
about man-made snow . . . . . . . . . . 119
Gary Stix and
Sasha Nemecek and
Philip Yam Trends in Society . . . . . . . . . . . ??
John Rennie From the Editors: The Animal Question 4--4
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Tim Beardsley News and Analysis: The Next Star Trek 12--14
Anonymous In Focus: The U.S. is not so boldly
going to the final frontier . . . . . . 12
Tim Beardsley Agent Angst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
John Horgan Which Came First? . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous Science and the Citizen: Fiber-optic
sponge\ldots Quasars. Birds and
dinosaurs\ldots Pneumonia\ldots
Moose-suit science . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Kristin Leutwyler In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--26
Christoph Pöppe and
Madhusree Mukerjee Prize Mistake . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Karl Sabbagh Late Bloomer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Marguerite Holloway Soaking Up the Rays . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Tim Beardsley Galactic Gushers . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Steve Mirsky Dropping One for Science . . . . . . . . 28--28
Rodger Doyle U.S. Deaths from Pneumonia . . . . . . . 29--29
Marguerite Holloway Into the Wilds of Africa . . . . . . . . 30--32
Anonymous Profile: Ecologist Patricia D. Moehlman
defends the misunderstood jackal . . . . 30
Glenn Zorpette It's a Helicopter! It's a Plane! . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Technology and Business: Making grammar
compute\ldots Polyester on the
vine\ldots A radical commuter copter . . 34
Samuel K. Moore Natural Synthetics . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
W. Wayt Gibbs Making Sense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--38
Sasha Nemecek Beating Bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
Erica Garcia Scoring with Buckyballs . . . . . . . . 39--39
John Browning Universal Disservice . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Anonymous Cyber View: How not to wire the poor . . 40
Donald W. Landry Immunotherapy for Cocaine Addiction . . 42--45
Didier Massonnet Satellite Radar Interferometry . . . . . 46--53
Gregory D. Bothun The Ghostliest Galaxies . . . . . . . . 56--61
Neil Baldwin The Lesser Known Edison . . . . . . . . 62--67
Richard Losick and
Dale Kaiser Why and How Bacteria Communicate . . . . 68--73
Richard E. Crandall The Challenge of Large Numbers . . . . . 74--78
Andrew N. Rowan Forum: The Benefits and Ethics of Animal
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Forum: The Benefits and Ethics of Animal
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Neal D. Barnard and
Stephen R. Kaufman Animal Research Is Wasteful and
Misleading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--82
Gregory D. Bothun The Ghostliest Galaxies . . . . . . . . 80 (Intl. ed. 56--61)
Jack H. Botting and
Adrian R. Morrison Animal Research Is Vital to Medicine . . 83--85
Madhusree Mukerjee Trends in Animal Research . . . . . . . 86--93
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: a Picture-Perfect
Comet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--95
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist: Capturing
Hale--Bopp, the comet of the century . . 94
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations:
Crystallography of a Golf Ball . . . . . 96--98
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations: The dimpled
symmetries of golf balls . . . . . . . . 96
Timothy Ferris and
Jeffrey L. Meikle Reviews and Commentaries: Heaven on
Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--104
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries: A professional
CD-ROM tool for amateur
astronomers\ldots. History of
plastic\ldots Da Vinci on disk . . . . . 100
W. Brian Arthur Wonders: The rocketing evolution of
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
James Burke Connections: Oh, say, can you see\ldots
where this song came from? . . . . . . . 100
W. Brian Arthur How Fast is Technology Evolving? . . . . 105--107
James Burke Waving the Flag . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
Michael A. Pierce Working Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Fixing a knee from
the inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
John Rennie From the Editors: Civilizing the
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
W. Wayt Gibbs News and Analysis: Computer Bombs . . . 14--16
Anonymous In Focus: University supercomputers
compete to simulate nuclear weapons . . 14
Sasha Nemecek Amphibians On-line . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Kristin Leutwyler Suicide Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Anonymous Science and the Citizen: The linguistics
and politics of ``Ebonics''. The
neurobiology of suicide. Seafloor
storage for radioactive waste . . . . . 18
David Schneider Not in My Backyard . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Kristin Leutwyler In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--24
Erica Garcia Where Do Turtles Go? . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Steve Mirsky Body Blow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
W. Wayt Gibbs A Matter of Language . . . . . . . . . . 25--27
Rodger Doyle Global Fertility and Population . . . . 26--26
John Horgan Juggling Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Anonymous Profile: Ronald L. Graham of AT&T
Labs-Research has his (juggling) hands
full . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Tim Beardsley Memories are Made of\ldots . . . . . . . 32--33
Anonymous Technology and Business: Chinese
quandary over biotech and eugenics.
Memory drugs? Food-poisoning sensor . . 32
Tim Beardsley China Syndrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--34
Corey S. Powell A Mirror, Cheaply . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Glenn Zorpette Better Red than Dead . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anne Eisenberg Where the Money Is . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Anonymous Cyber View: Fishing for money, some
services cast a small Net . . . . . . . 37
Kenneth R. Lang SOHO Reveals the Secrets of the Sun . . 40--47
Anonymous The Internet: Bringing Order from Chaos 49
The Editors Special Report: The Internet: Bringing
Order From Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Clifford Lynch Searching the Internet . . . . . . . . . 52--56
Gary Stix Finding Pictures on the Web . . . . . . 54--55
Michael Lesk Going Digital . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--60
Paul Resnick Filtering Information on the Internet 62--64
Marti A. Hearst Interfaces for Searching the Web . . . . 68--72
T. V. Raman Websurfing Without a Monitor . . . . . . 73--73
Bruno Oudet Multilingualism on the Internet . . . . 77--78
Mark Stefik Trusted Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--81
Brewster Kahle Preserving the Internet . . . . . . . . 82--83
Arthur Kleinman and
Alex Cohen Psychiatry's Global Challenge . . . . . 86--89
William A. Haseltine Discovering Genes for New Medicines . . 92--98
Rudolf de Bruyn Ouboter Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Discovery of
Superconductivity . . . . . . . . . . . 98--103
Rudolf de Bruyn Ouboter Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Discovery of
Superconductivity . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Roger S. Seymour Plants That Warm Themselves . . . . . . 104--109
David Schneider Trends in Climate Research: The Rising
Seas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--117
David Schneider The Rising Seas . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 (Intl. ed. 96--101)
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Juniper Green 118--120
Anonymous Mathematical Recreations: Prime-time fun
playing Juniper Green . . . . . . . . . 118
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Algorithm of the
Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--123
Anonymous The Amateur Scientist: Telescopes and a
problem for traveling salesmen in space 121
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries . . . . . . . . 124--128
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries: Vision works
both ways. Who gets credit for the big
bang?. Beetles on the brain . . . . . . 124
James Burke Connections: From a Copernican
disclaimer to trench warfare . . . . . . 124
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Sculpting with molecules and
atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Molecular Crayons and Mustard Seed
Avalanches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--131
James Burke Revolutionary Stuff . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
Brian Scott Working Knowledge: Stopping Bullets . . 132--132
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Bullet-resistant
vests: dressed to the nine millimeters 132
Anonymous Special Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
David Schneider Trends in Climate Research: The Rising
Seas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
John Rennie From the Editor: Seriously, We're Not
Kidding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Gary Stix News and Analysis: Small (Lending) is
Beautiful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--20
Anonymous In focus: Microcreditors help to stem
poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
David Schneider Hot-Spotting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Anonymous Science and the citizen: Hot spots;
Europa; Minimizing stroke damage;
Splicing saffron; What's your EQ?;
Electric car ride . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Erica Garcia Salivating for Saffron . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Kristin Leutwyler In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--28
Steve Mirsky Separate but EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Glenn Zorpette A Golf Cart, It Isn't . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Kristin Leutwyler Stopping Strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Rodger Doyle Air Pollution in the U.S. . . . . . . . 27--27
Corey S. Powell The Greening of Europa . . . . . . . . . 28--29
W. Wayt Gibbs From Satan to Zen . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Anonymous Profile: Dan Farmer, computer security
expert, hacks up the Web . . . . . . . . 32
Daniel G. Dupont Playing Nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--38
Anonymous Technology and business: Defense cost
sharing; Drugnet: catching cholesterol;
Flexible batteries . . . . . . . . . . . 35
W. Wayt Gibbs Dredging the Digestive System . . . . . 38--38
Tim Beardsley Plastic Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--40
Gary Stix Check Your Bags . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Paul Wallich Cracking the U.S. Code . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Anonymous Cyber view: Is a code cracker a
concealed weapon? . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Richard E. Rice and
Raymond E. Gullison and
John W. Reid Can Sustainable Management Save Tropical
Forests? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--49
Leonard Susskind Black Holes and the Information Paradox 52--57
Ian Tattersall Out of Africa Again\ldots and Again? . . 60--67
Matthew J. Plunkett and
Jonathan A. Ellman Combinatorial Chemistry and New Drugs 68--73
Nicholas Pinter and
Mark T. Brandon How Erosion Builds Mountains . . . . . . 74--79
Michael T. Madigan and
Barry L. Marrs Extremophiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--87
Robert A. J. Matthews The Science of Murphy's Law . . . . . . 88--91
Arthur B. Evans and
Ron Miller Jules Verne, Misunderstood Visionary . . 92--97
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: The Joys of
Armchair Ornithology . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Anonymous The amateur scientist: Armchair
ornithology is easy, but beware: it can
be addictive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Knight's Tours 102--104
Anonymous Mathematical recreations: Taking the
knight's tour of a chessboard . . . . . 102
Anonymous Reviews and Commentaries . . . . . . . . 108--112
Anonymous Reviews and commentaries: An updated
history of cryptology ``Forgotten
genius'' Nikola Tesla; Archaeological
eyewitnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
James Burke Connections: The Romantic overtones of
oil exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Philip Morrison Wonders: Scents and sensibility . . . . 108
Philip Morrison The Silicon Gourmet . . . . . . . . . . 113--115
James Burke Feathered Friends . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Merton Bunker, Jr. Working Knowledge: Smoke Detectors . . . 116--116
Anonymous Working knowledge: When there's smoke,
these fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
John Rennie From the Editor: The Misunderstood Clone 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Tim Beardsley News and Analysis: The Start of
Something Big? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
Anonymous In focus: Baa baa, cloned sheep, have
you any worth? The ethics and conundrums
of Dolly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Corey S. Powell Vanishing World . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
Anonymous Science and the citizen: Left-handed
meteorite; Disappearing planets?; Faking
a memory; Scent Trek . . . . . . . . . .