Natural History

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Articles in Sept 1997 issue of Natural History

• Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring
  by Stephen Jay Gould
• Birds do it, bees do it, even turtles in the sea do it
  by Fred C. Dyer
• Networking ants: how do ants find the cake crumb you dropped?
  by Deborah M. Gordon
• Mindblind
  by Simon Baron-Cohen
• Relative danger
  by Colin Tudge
• This land Tennessee: A lone prairie
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• Fire and water: The making of the Grand Canyon
  by W.K. Hamblin
• A clean, well-lighted planet
  by Joe Rao
• The brain's versatile toolbox
  by Steven Pinker
• For whom the gong tolls
  by Mark Jacobson
• Learning under the influence
  by Bennett G. Jr. Galef
• Coming attractions
  by Neil de Grasse Tyson
• The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching, As Interpreted by Wang Bi
  by Kidder Jr. Smith
• Inattenion must be paid
  by Catharine Rankin
• The Columbia I Ching on CD-ROM
  by Kidder Jr. Smith
• Math without words
  by Marc D. Hauser
• Power and Virtue: The Horse in Chinese Art
  by Karen Kane
• Memories are made of this
  by David Sherry
• When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles
  by Karen Kane
• The seat of insect learning?
  by Fred C. Dyer