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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 \booktitleScientific American: 50 and 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 \booktitleScientific American: 50 and 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 \booktitleScientific American: 50 and 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 \booktitleScientific American: 50 and 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 \booktitleScientific American: 50 and 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 \booktitleScientific American: 50 and 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 \booktitleScientific American: 50 and 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 \booktitleScientific American: 50 and 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 . . . . . . . . . .