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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 daysthe first trillionth of a second after the big bangenergy 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