Natural History

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Articles in Sept 2003 issue of Natural History

• Amendment
• Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites reopens September 20: interview with Curator Denton Ebel
• Blowin' in the wind
  by Stephan Reebs
• Museum events
• Drugs from seaweed?
  by Stephan Reebs
• Moonstruck: giant impacts, cataclysmic bombardments, oceans of magma hundreds of miles deep: no wonder the lunar landscape inspires such fascination
  by G. Jeffrey Taylor
• Private choices
  by Dru Clarke
• The fruits of prehistory
  by Stephan Reebs
• The varieties of mathematical experience: ethnomathematics is a powerful tool for understanding other cultures
  by James V. Rauff
• Cold fire of the night
  by Erin M. Espelie
• Experiment of the month
  by Stephan Reebs
• Monster of God: the Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Hard rain
  by Peter Brown
• Love and death
  by Stephan Reebs
• Meteorites, Ice, and Antarctica: a Personal Account
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Who minds the store?
• In the beginning: back in the olden days—the first trillionth of a second after the big bang—energy was matter, matter was energy, and E=[mc.sup.2] ruled
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The Land of Naked People: Encounters with Stone Age Islanders
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Strategic waters
  by Mark L. Kimmey
• The pleasure of "maybe": both tease and terrorist exert control by fostering uncertainty in their targets
  by Robert M. Sapolsky
• Hit parade
  by Robert (American businessman and engineer) Anderson
• Ode to the earth
  by Robert M. Martin, Jr.
• Squeeze play: brobdingnagian earthmoving "worms" dig their tunnels with a hydraulic ram
  by Adam Summers
• The quest for the golden lens: a perfect alignment of massive objects would offer clues to the rate of cosmic expansion
  by Charles Liu
• The joys of fieldwork
  by Gary Noel Ross
• 2003 Ad
  by Joe Rao
• Bolts from beyond: some "shooting stars" come to Earth bearing secrets from other planets, as well as clues about the makeup of the solar system before the planets formed
  by Donald Goldsmith