Volume 90 | Number 6 | November-December 2002
Carl Safina
Scott Wiedensaul's The Ghost With Trembling Wings tells of the challenges of working in the dim twilight at the edge of species extinction
Robert Buderi
Jennet Conant tells the long-neglected but thrilling story of financier-turned-scientist Alfred Lee Loomis and the MIT Radiation Lab in Tuxedo Park
Philip Morrison
General Leslie R. Groves supervised the Manhattan Project with a pragmatism well conveyed by Robert S. Norris's Racing for the Bomb
David Wilson
A review of The Illusion of Conscious Will, by Daniel M. Wegner
Stephen Lekson
A review of Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos, by Sally A. Kitt Chappell
John Perry
A review of The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities, by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner
Malcolm Potts
A review of Sex: A Natural History, by Joann Ellison Rodgers; and The Science of Romance: Secrets of the Sexual Brain, by Nigel Barber
Peter Pesic
A review of Hydrogen: The Essential Element, by John S. Rigden
Total Records : 14