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October 1993
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; October 1993; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Masthead; October 1993; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Hard Times; October 1993; by Marguerite Holloway; 2 Page(s)
Occupational injuries among children are increasing
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Sentries and Saboteurs; October 1993; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 5 Page(s)
Mutating patients' genomes to suit their medicine
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Creative Evolution; October 1993; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 2 Page(s)
Like all things cultural, art evolves - a platitude to most artists, but to a handful, a description of technique.
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break; October 1993; by Tim Beardsley; 1 Page(s)
Shall the meek inherit the earth, or is might right? Students of behavior have expended much effort analyzing whether evolution should favor individuals who cooperate or exploiters who go for short-term gains.
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Sharks Do Get Cancer; October 1993; by Tim Beardsley; 2 Page(s)
Cartilage cure relies on wishful thinking
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Run Silent, Run (Not So) Cheap; October 1993; by Gary Stix; 1 Page(s)
For decades, polar oceanographers have wanted to come in from the cold. To do their work, they have had to lug cumbersome sonar and seismic equipment over the surface of polar ice floes.
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Jurassic Virus?; October 1993; by Philip E. Ross; 1 Page(s)
Can't clone a Tyrannosaur? Then try chicken pox
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Clearing the Air in Los Angeles; October 1993; by James M. Lents and William J. Kelly; 8 Page(s)
Although Los Angeles has the most polluted skies
in the nation, it is one of the few cities where
air quality has improved in recent decades
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Large Igneous Provinces; October 1993; by Millard F. Coffin and Olav Eldholm; 8 Page(s)
These vast fields of lava record powerful but geologically brief pulses of magmatic activity. Their formation may have triggered significant changes in the global environment
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Evolutionarily Mobile Modules in Proteins; October 1993; by Russell F. Doolittle and Peer Bork; 7 Page(s)
Many proteins consist of a fairly small set of modular elements.
How these units spread and multiplied during evolution
is not altogether clear, but a pattern may be emerging
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Electrorheological Fluids; October 1993; by Thomas C. Halsey and James E. Martin; 7 Page(s)
Some liquids solidify instantly when exposed
to an electric field. Such protean materials may give
engineers quicker, more adaptive machines
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Water-Pollinated Plants; October 1993; by Paul Alan Cox; 7 Page(s)
Once thought to be mere aberrations of nature, these ?owering aquatic species provide evidence for the evolutionary convergence toward efficient pollination strategies
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Simulating Brain Damage; October 1993; by Geoffrey E. Hinton, David C. Plaut and Tim Shallice; 7 Page(s)
Adults with brain damage make some bizarre errors when reading
words. If a network of simulated neurons is trained to read
and then is damaged, it produces strikingly similar behavior
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Raising the Vasa; October 1993; by Lars-Åke Kvarning; 8 Page(s)
This Swedish man-of-war foundered on her maiden
voyage and slept for three centuries at the bottom
of Stockholm Harbor. Here is the story of her resurrection
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The Death of Proof; October 1993; by John Horgan; 10 Page(s)
Computers are transforming the way
mathematicians discover, prove and
communicate ideas, but is there a place for absolute certainty in this brave new world?
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CRADA Mania; October 1993; by Tim Beardsley; 3 Page(s)
Will joint research make U.S. industry competitive?
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A Wand for the Meter Reader; October 1993; by Joshua Shapiro; 1 Page(s)
When gaslights were introduced into homes and businesses in the late 19th century, suppliers billed according to the number of lamps at the establishment.
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Magnetic Apprehensions; October 1993; by Karen Fitzgerald; 2 Page(s)
Radiologists call for more testing of MRI's effects
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Mag Lift; October 1993; by Robert Patton; 2 Page(s)
Japan's engineers push the envelope for elevators
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Chronologically Privileged; October 1993; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 1 Page(s)
C-SPAN viewers who watched Congress this spring tip-toe around the subject of Social Security cuts may have smiled to hear politically correct legislators refer deferentially to their elderly constituents as "the chronologically privileged."
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Power Pack; October 1993; by Gary Stix; 3 Page(s)
Batteries are the bottleneck for portable electronics
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The Amateur Scientist; October 1993; by Daniel J. Klingenberg; 2 Page(s)
Making Fluids into Solids with Magnets
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Book Reviews; October 1993; by Philip Morrison; 5 Page(s)
The Demographic Transition; 16th-Century Shipwrights; A Swift Viral Traffic
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Tadpoles from Heaven; October 1993; by Richard Wassersug; 1 Page(s)
The unstoppable human pilgrimage to the planets
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