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Articles in Oct 1996 issue of Discover

• The origin of syphilis - bone study suggests disease existed in the New World, but not Europe, before Columbus's voyages - Brief Article
• Eureka moments II - creative people on creativity - special issue: The Science of Creativity
• Natural detours - natural selection does not follow straight route of evolutionary progress
  by Carl Zimmer
• Music of the hemispheres: why can a toddler sing? Why is even the most ordinary human brain a library of melodies? - special issue: The Science of Creativity
  by James Shreeve
• Quantum cat tricks - atom made to coexist in two states at once
  by Jeffrey Winters
• Eureka moments III - creative people on creativity - special issue: The Science of Creativity
• How cholera became a killer - bacteria is infected by virus
  by Josie Glausiusz
• Artificial genius - original art and music by computers - special issue: The Science of Creativity
  by Margaret A. Boden
• We'll always have parrots - popular remedies to release creativity - Light Elements - special issue: The Science of Creativity
  by Polly Shulman
• Fright night - Pleiades reach their highest point on Halloween - Night Watchman
  by Bob Berman
• A bullet to the mind - personality change resulting from gunshot wound to the brain - Vital Signs - special issue: The Science of Creativity
  by Frank Vertosick, Jr.
• Just gas, Part I - Tobias Fischer hopes to predict volcanic eruptions by monitoring gas emissions - Brief Article
• Creating the creators: if creation demands a visionary creator, then how does blind evolution manage to build such splendid new things as ourselves? - special issue: The Science of Creativity
  by Stephen Jay Gould
• Through a fish eye, lightly - the sunfish spots prey through murky waters by detecting polarized light - Brief Article
• The accidental inventor - some inventions result from unexpected consequences - special issue: The Science of Creativity
  by Robert Friedel
• Just Gas, Part III - electric version - researchers create metallic hydrogen in lab, to support theory of Jupiter's magnetic field - Brief Article
• Eureka moments I - creative people on creativity - special issue: The Science of Creativity
• Home on the bone - hydrothermal-vent animals migrate via whale bones
• That fine madness - manic depression is latest mental illness popularly linked to artistic genius - special issue: The Science of Creativity
  by Jo Ann C. Gutin