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Volume 88 | Number 6 | November-December 2000


Explaining Giant Bones

Tim Tokaryk

A review of The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times, by Adrienne Mayor.

A Mind for Math

Lynn Steen

A review of The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip, by Keith Devlin.

The Meaning of Mass

Barry Holstein

A review of Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy, by Max Jammer.

Heat vs. Light in the Global Warming Wars

John Firor

A review of Beating the Heat: Why and How We Must Combat Global Warming, by John J. Berger and The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming, by Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling, Jr.

Symmetries Obeyed and Broken

Peter Pesic

A review of Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry, by Frank Close and Antimatter: The Ultimate Mirror, by Gordon Fraser.

Prove and Conjecture!

Joel Spencer

A review of Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives, edited by V. I. Arnold, Michael Atiyah, Peter D. Lax and Barry Mazur.

Decoding Nature

S. S. Schweber

A review of Labyrinth: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science, by Peter Pesic.

Sorting by Sex

Celia Moore

A review of Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, by Anne Fausto-Sterling.

Organismal Design

Robert Dudley

A review of Symmorphosis: On Form and Function in Shaping Life, by Ewald R. Weibel.

Food Security

Michael Cohen

A review of Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century, by Vaclav Smil.


Total Records : 12


 

Feynman:
An Excerpt from a New Comic Biography

Read an excerpt from the new graphic-novel-style biography of Richard Feynman in an American Scientist slide show


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About once a month at Sigma Xi headquarters, we liven up the lunch hour with an American Scientist Pizza Lunch talk. In these informal lectures, scientists describe new research to nonscientists. The series is light on jargon but heavy on solid science. Each Pizza Lunch offers an in-depth look at its subject, whether it's bedbugs or the smart grid. Click below to read about and download these talks -- and to subscribe!



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