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Volume 86; Issue 2
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American Scientist
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?
Donald U. Wise
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
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PDF, 4.47 MB
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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
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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
Language:
english
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PDF, 3.17 MB
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4
Back Matter
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 1.58 MB
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5
PILES OF PCS
Mike May
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
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PDF, 582 KB
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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
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7
From Fraud to Human Rescue in Transplantation Immunology
Review by: Philip B. Carter
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 613 KB
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8
Supersymmetry in Disorder and Chaosby Konstantin Efetov
Review by: Sean Washburn
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 333 KB
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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
File:
PDF, 326 KB
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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
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11
The Preeminent Value of Evolutionary Insight in Biological Science
Review by: Walter J. Bock
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 599 KB
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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
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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
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1998
14
The Neanderthal Legacy: An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europeby Paul Mellars
Review by: Jan F. Simek
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 589 KB
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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
File:
PDF, 745 KB
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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
File:
PDF, 346 KB
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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
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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
File:
PDF, 731 KB
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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
File:
PDF, 335 KB
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20
Ecology and Evolution: The Pace of Lifeby K. D. Bennett
Review by: Thompson Webb III
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 566 KB
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21
Engineering: Technology and Societies
Henry Petroski
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 1.30 MB
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22
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticalityby Per Bak
Review by: Thomas W. Traut
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 553 KB
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23
Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?by Robert S. Desowitz
Review by: Douglas D. McGregor
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 347 KB
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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
File:
PDF, 566 KB
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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
File:
PDF, 589 KB
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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
File:
PDF, 354 KB
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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
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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
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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
File:
PDF, 541 KB
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30
Undiscovered Petroleum and Mineral Resources: Assessment and Controversyby Lawrence J. Drew
Review by: Steve Collins
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 383 KB
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31
LITTLE ROBOTS IN SPACE
Michael Szpir
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 578 KB
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32
Computing Science: Collective Wisdom
Brian Hayes
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 1.20 MB
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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
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34
Lavoisier: Chemist, Biologist, Economistby Jean-Pierre Poirier; Rebecca Balinski
Review by: David Knight
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 560 KB
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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
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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
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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
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english, 1998
38
Front Matter
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 2.42 MB
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39
Oil Spillsby Joanna Burger
Review by: Robert Gramling
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 597 KB
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40
Letters to the Editors
Richard E. Gibbs and Joseph F. Traub
Journal:
American Scientist
Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 597 KB
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english, 1998
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