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Dream Sequences

William Moorcroft

A review of The Neuropsychology of Dreams: A Clinico-Anatomical Study, by Mark Solms.


Skeleton Key

Clark Larsen

A review of Bones of the Maya: Studies of Ancient Skeletons, edited by Stephen L. Whittington and David M. Reed.


After-School Detention

Patricia Galloway

A review of The Cultural Transformation of a Native American Family and Its Tribe, 1763–1995: A Basket of Apples, by Joel Spring.


Trials of Errors

Malcolm Sherman

A review of Yes, We Have No Neutrons: An Eye-Opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Bad Science, by A. K. Dewdney.


Graphic Language

John Russ

A review of Number by Colors: A Guide to Using Color to Understand Technical Data, by Brand Fortner and Theodore E. Meyer.


Slick Account

Robert Gramling

A review of Oil Spills, by Joanna Burger.


Through the Spectroscope

Juliette Ioup, George Ioup

A review of Deconvolution of Images and Spectra, second edition, edited by Peter A. Jansson.


Vive La Revolution

David Knight

A review of Lavoisier: Chemist, Biologist, Economist, by Jean-Pierre Poirier; tr. Rebecca Balinski.


Bak to Basics

Thomas Traut

A review of How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality, by Per Bak.


Someone Else's Backyard

Raymond Burby

A review of Environmentally Devastated Neighborhoods: Perceptions, Policies, and Realities, by Michael R. Greenberg and Dona Schneider.


Particular Physics

George Kauffman, Laurie Kauffman

A review of The Quotable Einstein, edited by Alice Calaprice.


Paradise in Peril: Examining the Interaction of People and Biota

Ian Tattersall

A review of Natural Change and Human Impact in Madagascar, edited by Steven M. Goodman and Bruce D. Patterson.


Inflation Appreciation

Y. Ng

A review of The Inflationary Universe: The Quest For a New Theory of Cosmic Origins, by Alan Guth.


Deep Impact

Lucy-Ann McFadden

A review of Impact! The Threat of Comets and Asteroids, by Gerrit L. Verschuur, Asteroid: Earth Destroyer or New Frontier?, by Patricia Barnes-Svarney and Mining The Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets, by John S. Lewis.


Grappling for Light, Stability and Reproductive Success

Michael Purugganan

A review of The Evolutionary Biology of Plants, by Karl J. Niklas.


Space Race

Aleksander Gurshtein

A review of Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon, by James Harford.


Planetary Realignment

Sherman Suter

A review of The Late Devonian Mass Extinction: the Frasnian/Famennian Crisis, by George R. McGhee, Jr.


Acid Test

Tom Tietenberg

A review of Acid Rain and Environmental Degradation: The Economics of Emission Trading, by Ger Klaassen.


World Watch

William Schlesinger

A review of Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems, edited by Brian Walker and Will Steffen.


Uprooted Findings

Philip Gingerich

A review of The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America, edited by Donald R. Prothero and Robert J. Emry.


Last Year's Model

Marcel Holyoak

A review of Population Dynamics in Ecological Space and Time, edited by Olin E. Rhodes, Jr., Ronald K. Chesser and Michael H. Smith.


Photographic Negatives

Peggy Fiedler

A review of Humanature, by Peter Goin.


Age Limits

Mark Williams

A review of Cheating Time: Science, Sex, and Aging, by Roger Gosden.


Re-examining the Givens: Testing Our Theories of the World

Marshall Specter

A review of Boundaries and Barriers: On the Limits to Scientific Knowledge, edited by John L. Casti and Anders Karlqvist.


Les Temps Peru

David Guillet

A review of Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes, by Karl S. Zimmerer.


Monkey Business

Russell Tuttle

A review of Great Ape Societies, edited by W. C. McGrew, L. F. Marchant, and T. Nishida.


Biological Culture

Fraser Neiman

A review of Darwinian Archaeologies, edited by Herbert D. G. Maschner.


Attention Deficits

Andrew Rowland

A review of Hyperactivity Disorders of Childhood, edited by Seija Sandberg.


Mirror, Mirror

Gregory Lockhead

A review of Mirrors in Mind, by Richard Gregory.


Cooperation Makes It Happen

Lee Dugatkin

A review of The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation, by Matt Ridley.




 

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Pizza Lunch Podcasts

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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