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August 2000
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; August 2000; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Uncontrolled Burn; August 2000; by Marguerite Holloway; 2 Page(s)
The Los Alamos blaze exposes the missing science of forest management
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Island Survivors; August 2000; by Eric Niiler; 3 Page(s)
On what once was a North American Galápagos, researchers try to save devastated wildlife
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Gene Scenes; August 2000; by Trisha Gura; 1 Page(s)
New magnetic renosance imaging lights up cells when their DNA turns on.
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Magnetic Anomalies; August 2000; by George Musser; 1 Page(s)
What are magnetic fields doing in the middle of nowhere?
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Global Positioning; August 2000; by Kate Wong; 1 Page(s)
New fossils revise the time when humans colonized the Earth
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More Than the Best Medicine; August 2000; by Meredith F. Small; 1 Page(s)
Hear the one about the baboon with the wooden leg? Laughing to make friends and influence others
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News Briefs; August 2000; by Julia Karow, Diane Martindale, George Musser, Sarah Simpson, Steve Mirsky; 2 Page(s)
DNA Junk and Lupus; Size Doesn't Matter; Cosmic Cartography; Sea Change for Tides; The Need for Zzz's; Atomic-Force Geckos; A Dose of Our Own Medicine
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No Resistance; August 2000; by Bruce Schechter; 2 Page(s)
High-temperature superconductors start finding real-world uses
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Different Stripes; August 2000; by Graham P. Collins; 1 Page(s)
Physicists still struggle to explain high-temperature superconductivity
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Cyber View: Circles of Trust; August 2000; by Wendy Grossman; 1 Page(s)
How vouching for visits beats encryption alone in maintaining privacy
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How Green Are Green Plastics?; August 2000; by Tillman U. Gerngross, Steven C. Slater; 6 Page(s)
It is now technologically possible to make plastics using green plants rather than nonrenewable fossil fuels. But are these new plastics the environmental saviors researchers have hoped for?
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Is Global Warming Harmful to Health?; August 2000; by Paul R. Epstein; 8 Page(s)
Computer models indicate that many diseases will surge as the earth's atmosphere heats up. Signs of the predicted troubles have begun to appear
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Form from Fire; August 2000; by Arvind Varma; 4 Page(s)
Self-propagating heat waves can engender new and improved materials, but only recently have researchers found ways to monitor these ultraquick chemical reactions
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The Universe's Unseen Dimensions; August 2000; by Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, Georgi Dvali, side bar by Graham P. Collins; 8 Page(s)
The visible universe could lie on a membrane floating within a higher-dimensional space. The extra dimensions would help unify the forces of nature and could contain parallel universes
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Male Sexual Circuitry; August 2000; by Irwin Goldstein; 6 Page(s)
The brain is the most important sex organ. One of its roles in male sexuality is to keep the penis under control.
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Birth of the Modern Diet; August 2000; by Rachel Laudan; 6 Page(s)
Ever wonder why dessert is served after dinner? The origins of modern Western cooking can be traced to ideas about diet and nutrition that arose during the 17th century
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Books; August 2000; by Staff Editors; 2 Page(s)
In "African Ceremonies", two intrepid photographers explore the rituals of a disappearing way of life
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Connections: The Grand Plan; August 2000; by James Burke; 2 Page(s)
Connecting the dots between theology, calculus, social satire, locomotives, Napoleon and economics
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Anti Gravity: Measure for Measure; August 2000; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)
A brief homage to the grams, liters, inches and hours that make it possible to keep track of our lives to at least some degree
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