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May 2002
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; May 2002; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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The Skeptical Environmentalist Replies; May 2002; by Bjorn L¿mborg, John Rennie; 2 Page(s)
Recently Scientific American published "Misguided Math about the Earth," a series of essays that criticized Bjorn L¿mborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist. Here L¿mborg offers his rebuttal. Also, John Rennie, Editor in Chief of Scientific American, replies
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Peeling Plaque; May 2002; by Diane Martindale; 2 Page(s)
Researchers remain optimistic about a vaccine against Alzheimer's
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Lion versus Lamb; May 2002; by Krista West; 2 Page(s)
In New Mexico, a battle brews between two rare species
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Face Shift; May 2002; by Luis Miguel Ariza; 1 Page(s)
How sleeping sickness parasites evade human defenses
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R.I.P for D.I.Y.; May 2002; by George Musser; 1 Page(s)
Science tinkerers continue to take it on the chin
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When Markets Go Mad; May 2002; by David Appell; 2 Page(s)
Physicists try to predict when stock prices will crash
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News Scan Briefs; May 2002; by Alison McCook, Charles Choi, JR Minkel; 2 Page(s)
As Good as Old; Watered-Down Mars; A Crush on Bacteria; Cascades of Light; Triggers against Transplants; Data Points: Too Much of a Good Thing; www.sciam.com/news - Brief Bits
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Profile: Survival in an Insecure World; May 2002; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 2 Page(s)
To defeat cyberterrorists, computer systems must be designed to work around sabotage. David A. Fisher's new programming language will help do just that
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Skeptic: The Exquisite Balance; May 2002; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)
Science helps us understand the essential tension between orthodoxy and heresy in science
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Atherosclerosis: The New View; May 2002; by Peter Libby; 10 Page(s)
It causes chest pain, heart attack and stroke, leading to more deaths every year than cancer. The long-held conception of how the disease develops turns out to be wrong
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Journey to the Farthest Planet; May 2002; by S. Alan Stern; 8 Page(s)
Scientists are finally preparing to send a spacecraft to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the last unexplored region in our planetary system
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Wireless Data Blaster; May 2002; by David G. Leeper; 6 Page(s)
Radio's oldest technology is providing a new way for portable electronics to transmit large quantities of data rapidly without wires
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Extreme Light; May 2002; by G¿rard A. Mourou and Donald Umstadter; 7 Page(s)
Focusing light with the power of 1,000 Hoover Dams onto a point the size of a cell nucleus accelerates electrons to the speed of light in a femtosecond
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Rethinking Green Consumerism; May 2002; by Jared Hardner and Richard Rice; 8 Page(s)
Buying green products won't be enough to save biodiversity in the tropics. A new plan for marketing conservation services may be the answer
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Voyages: Trees of the Triassic; May 2002; by Marguerite Holloway; 3 Page(s)
In the painted desert of Arizona, a story of how forests turned to stone and how the stones are walking away
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Reviews: Meddling with Human Nature; May 2002; by Daniel J. Kevles, Staff Editors; 2 Page(s)
Our Posthuman Future considers the possible political outcomes of biotechnology. Also, The Editors Recommend
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Ask the Experts; May 2002; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
Why do my eyes tear when I peel an onion? What is the origin of zero?
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Fuzzy Logic; May 2002; by Roz Chast; 1 Page(s)
Physics: The Final Exam
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