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Articles in Dec 1995 issue of Discover

• Baby blues - postpartum depression attributed to low levels of corticotropin-releasing hormone after placenta is gone - Brief Article
• Boob cube - three-dimensional 'volumetric' television
  by Bennett Daviss
• Boy oh buoyant - blimps - Light Elements
  by Jeffrey Kluger
• Infinity plus one and other surreal numbers
  by Polly Shulman
• Magazine on the move - Discover - Editorial
  by Paul Hoffman
• It came from the earth's core - deep-rooted volcanoes blamed for Permian mass extinction - Brief Article
• The first land - 3.5-billion-year-old continental crust found
  by Rachel Preiser
• Atom smith - Dick Siegel constructs materials one molecule at a time
  by Robert Pool
• The red giant - Betelgeuse - Night Watchman
  by Bob Berman
• Alimentary, my dear hoatzin - South American bird digests plant fiber, unlike other birds - Brief Article
• Bees van der Rohe - computer simulation models how insects can build a common nest with little brainpower - Brief Article
• A new kind of glitch - cancer can be caused by methylation of genes as well as mutation
  by Sarah Richardson
• Silicone in the system - pathologist Nir Kossovky's tests win cases for silicone breast-implant plaintiffs, but the science is questionable
  by Gary Tauibes
• Stuff & nonsex! - proving whether an organism is completely asexual - article in comic-strip form - Science Classics
  by Larry Gonick
• Weird and wonderful - Chinese Cretacean fossil identified as a vegetarian crocodilian
• Space laser - surrounding gas cloud amplifies light from star
• Life takes backbone - possible precursor to RNA at the origin of life
  by Carl Zimmer
• A face of one's own - computer learns to recognize faces, emotions - includes related article on the qualities of facial attractiveness
  by Evan I. Schwartz
• Sweet 13 - high-calorie diet stimulates gonadotropin-releasing hormone, hastens onset of puberty - Brief Article
• Suicide bombing, bacillus style - bacteria use virus to destroy competing strain
• A deadly cry - infant mistakenly diagnosed with neurodegenerative disease - Vital Signs
  by Robert Marion
• The amazing all-natural light machine - light-harvesting molecule LH2
  by Mark Caldwell