Magazine
July-August 2016
July-August 2016
Volume: 104 Number: 4
The 2012 Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado Springs, Colorado, was the worst wildfire in the state’s history. Shown here burning out of control on June 26, three days after the fire began, it ultimately lasted 18 days, blazing through more than 18,000 acres of public and private land, destroying 347 homes, and killing two people. In “Coexisting with Wildfire,” fire ecologist Max A. Moritz and historian Scott Gabriel Knowles describe the state of research on safety and damage prevention in the face of wildfires, dispelling common misconceptions that they say may be holding back proactive policy and contributing to reactively fighting fires. The authors pose solutions that they think could save lives, homes, and taxpayer money. (Photograph by R. J. Sangosti.)
In This Issue
- Art
- Astronomy
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Communications
- Computer
- Engineering
- Environment
- Ethics
- Evolution
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Physics
- Policy
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Technology
A Constructive Chemical Conversation
Alison Grinthal, Wim L. Noorduin, Joanna Aizenberg
Art Chemistry
Precisely timed series of interventions lead to the growth of a variety of complex, three-dimensional microscale structures
The Road Ahead
Henry Petroski
Engineering Technology
Designers envisioning the future have not always been able to foretell advances in automotive and motorway technology.
G. Evelyn Hutchinson’s Exultation in Natural History
Laura J. Martin
Biology
The ecologist most remembered for bringing experimental work to a largely observational field nevertheless loved and promoted organismal description.
