Volume 86; Issue 2

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Volume 86; Issue 2

American Scientist

Volume 86; Issue 2

1

Creationism's Geologic Time Scale: Should the scientific community continue to fight rear-guard skirmishes with creationists, or insist that "young-earthers" defend their model in toto?

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 4.47 MB

english, 1998

2

Is Beauty a Sign of Truth in Scientific Theories? Why are some new theories embraced as beautiful, others spurned as ugly? Progress in science may require that aesthetic ideals themselves change

James W. McAllister

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 2.97 MB

english, 1998

3

Mathematics and Tensegrity: Group and representation theory make it possible to form a complete catalogue of "strut-cable" constructions with prescribed symmetries

Robert Connelly and Allen Back

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

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english

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PDF, 3.17 MB

english, 1998

4

Back Matter

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

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english

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PDF, 1.58 MB

english, 1998

5

PILES OF PCS

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

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english

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PDF, 582 KB

english, 1998

6

Transporting Water in Plants: Evaporation from the leaves pulls water to the top of a tree, but living cells make that possible by protecting the stretched water and repairing it when it breaks

Martin J. Canny

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 3.49 MB

english, 1998

7

From Fraud to Human Rescue in Transplantation Immunology

Review by: Philip B. Carter

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 613 KB

english, 1998

8

Supersymmetry in Disorder and Chaosby Konstantin Efetov

Review by: Sean Washburn

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 333 KB

english, 1998

9

Conservation and Management of Tropical Rainforests: An Integrated Approach to Sustainabilityby Eberhard F. Bruenig

Review by: David Peart

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 326 KB

english, 1998

10

Metastasis: The spread of cancer cells to distant sites implies a complex series of cellular abnormalities caused, in part, by genetic aberrations

Cornelis J. F. Van Noorden, Linda C. Meade-Tollin and Fred T. Bosman

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 4.30 MB

english, 1998

11

The Preeminent Value of Evolutionary Insight in Biological Science

Review by: Walter J. Bock

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 599 KB

english, 1998

12

Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather (2 volumes)by Stephen H. Schneider

Review by: Peter J. Robinson

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 384 KB

english, 1998

13

The Neanderthal Legacy: An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europeby Paul Mellars

Review by: Jan F. Simek

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

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PDF, 589 KB

1998

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The Neanderthal Legacy: An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europeby Paul Mellars

Review by: Jan F. Simek

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 589 KB

english, 1998

15

Bones of the Maya: Studies of Ancient Skeletonsby Stephen L. Whittington; David M. Reed

Review by: Clark Spencer Larsen

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 745 KB

english, 1998

16

Environmentally Devastated Neighborhoods: Perceptions, Policies, and Realitiesby Michael R. Greenberg; Dona Schneider

Review by: Raymond J. Burby

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 346 KB

english, 1998

17

Language's Source: A Particularly Human Confluence of Hard Wiring and Soft

Review by: Ralph L. Holloway

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 768 KB

english, 1998

18

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

Review by: Patricia Galloway

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 731 KB

english, 1998

19

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

Review by: Malcolm J. Sherman

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 335 KB

english, 1998

20

Ecology and Evolution: The Pace of Lifeby K. D. Bennett

Review by: Thompson Webb III

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 566 KB

english, 1998

21

Engineering: Technology and Societies

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 1.30 MB

english, 1998

22

How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticalityby Per Bak

Review by: Thomas W. Traut

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 553 KB

english, 1998

23

Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?by Robert S. Desowitz

Review by: Douglas D. McGregor

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 347 KB

english, 1998

24

The Anther: Form, Function and Phylogenyby William G. D'Arcy; Richard C. Keating

Review by: Bruce K. Kirchoff

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 566 KB

english, 1998

25

The Nature of Horses: Exploring Equine Evolution, Intelligence, and Behaviorby Stephen Budiansky

Review by: Christine Janis

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 589 KB

english, 1998

26

Deconvolution of Images and Spectra. Second Editionby Peter A. Jansson

Review by: Juliette W. Ioup and George E. Ioup

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 354 KB

english, 1998

27

Homoplasy: The Recurrence of Similarity in Evolutionby Michael J. Sanderson; Larry Hufford

Review by: V. Louise Roth

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 343 KB

english, 1998

28

The Neuropsychology of Dreams: A Clinico-Anatomical Studyby Mark Solms

Review by: William H. Moorcroft

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 571 KB

english, 1998

29

Number by Colors: A Guide to Using Color to Understand Technical Databy Brand Fortner; Theodore E. Meyer

Review by: John Russ

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 541 KB

english, 1998

30

Undiscovered Petroleum and Mineral Resources: Assessment and Controversyby Lawrence J. Drew

Review by: Steve Collins

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 383 KB

english, 1998

31

LITTLE ROBOTS IN SPACE

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

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english

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PDF, 578 KB

english, 1998

32

Computing Science: Collective Wisdom

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 1.20 MB

english, 1998

33

Sigma Xi Today: MARCH/APRIL, 1998, VOLUME: 7, NUMBER: 2

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 790 KB

english, 1998

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Lavoisier: Chemist, Biologist, Economistby Jean-Pierre Poirier; Rebecca Balinski

Review by: David Knight

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 560 KB

english, 1998

35

Atomic and Ion Collisions in Solids and at Surfaces: Theory, Simulation and Applicationsby Roger Smith

Review by: Michael Bear and Estela Blaisten-Barojas

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 591 KB

english, 1998

36

American Astronomy: Community, Careers, and Power, 1859–1940by John Lankford

Review by: Richard Berendzen

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 344 KB

english, 1998

37

Amniote Origins: Completing the Transition to Landby Stuart S. Sumida; Karen L. M. Martin

Review by: Robert Holmes

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 606 KB

english, 1998

38

Front Matter

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

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english

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PDF, 2.42 MB

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39

Oil Spillsby Joanna Burger

Review by: Robert Gramling

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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PDF, 597 KB

english, 1998

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Letters to the Editors

Richard E. Gibbs and Joseph F. Traub

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1998

Language:

english

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english, 1998