Natural History

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Articles in July-August 2002 issue of Natural History

• Spurred on to greater depths: large barbs on her hind legs turn a female cicada killer into a soil-moving machine
  by Joe Coelho
• Cosmos on the table: an astrophysicist looks at chemistry's most famous chart
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Bookshelf
• Making mountains out of molecules: with so many sperm in the sea, how does an urchin egg find Mr. Right?
  by Peter J. Marchand
• Psst! Sounds like a meteor: in the debate about whether or not meteors make noise, skeptics have had the upper hand until now
  by Alan Burdick
• In search of another Earth
  by Robert (American businessman and engineer) Anderson
• Hidden to all
  by Stephan Reebs
• Ground breakers of Patagonia: paleontologists rarely have the chance to document dinosaur behavior. In Argentina, the authors found rock-solid evidence of a sauropod's private life
  by Lowell Dingus
• Maybe it's Maybelline
  by Judy Rice
• Antsy home buyers
  by Stephan Reebs
• Trading places: Muslim merchants from West Africa expand their markets to New York City
  by Paul Stoller
• No fly zone
  by Elizabeth Cator
• Drooling is good
  by Stephan Reebs
• Reborn free: a new generation of Przewalski's horses inhabits the Mongolian steppe
  by Lee Boyd
• Experiment of the month
  by Stephan Reebs
• A superorganism's fuzzy boundaries: the breathing termite mounds of southern Africa raise the question, Where does "animate" end and "inanimate" begin?
  by J. Scott Turner
• Guppy love
  by Stephan Reebs
• Sex is in the air: birds do it. Bees do it. Sometimes even gentle breezes do it
  by Adam Summers
• Hong Kong: the experience of a lifetime
• Cracking a mystery
  by Stephan Reebs
• Good morning, starshine: astronomers are closing in on cosmic dawn
  by Charles Liu
• This view of Steve
  by Ellen Goldensohn
• Museum events in July and August
• The sky in July and August
  by Joe Rao
• Carrie Buck's daughter: a popular, quasi-scientific idea can be a powerful tool for injustice
  by Stephen Jay Gould
• On the Flyways: birds, butterflies, and plants have a sanctuary in Canada's smallest national park
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• "The whole Mass a Paradice": is religion an adaptation that enables groups to function as single units?
  by Frans B.M. de Waal