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• I Of The Vortex: From Neurons To Self. - Review - book review

  I OF THE VORTEX: FROM NEURONS TO SELF Rodolfo Llinas, M.D. MIT Press, $24.95. IN THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, the question is as stubborn and...

  12/1/02 by Annie Murphy Paul · More from publication

• Science Myth - compasses and the 'north magnetic pole' - Brief Article

  MYTH: The directional needle in a compass points to Earth's north magnetic pole, which identifies true, geographic north. FACT: Magnets are...

  11/1/02 · More from publication

• Thar She Blows - remote chance of tsunamis on the East coast - Brief Article

  Evil-looking mile-wide cracks slicing across the seafloor off the coast of Virginia and North Carolina testify to past violence in the region. Neal...

  11/1/02 by Kathy A. Svitil · More from publication

• The Emperor's New Genome? - mapping of the human genome is far from complete, despite press releases to the contrary - Brief Article

  You wouldn't know it from the press conferences, but scientists are still far from deciphering the human genome. About 20 to 30 percent of our...

  11/1/02 by Josie Glausiusz · More from publication

• Vulcan's Fury: Man Against the Volcano. - Review - book reviews

  Vulcan's Fury: Man Against the Volcano Alwyn Scarth. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999, $29.95. There are many ways to be murdered by a volcano, as Alwyn...

  11/1/02 by Robert Kunzig · More from publication

• Sweet little accelerator - Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility

  Last October, when the House of Representatives voted to cut off funding for the 54-mile-round Superconducting Supercollider in Texas, it killed what...

  9/1/02 by Hans Christian Von Bayer · More from publication

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