Scientific American

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  Año 2000, Vol. 282, Número 4

  • Smart Choices.

    John Rennie

    pág. 6

    

  • Fireballs of Free Quarks.

    Graham P. Collins, Uwe Reichert

    pág. 16

    

  • Killer Waves on the East Coast?

    Sarah Simpson

    pág. 16

    

  • Riding the Rumble.

    Simon LeVay

    pág. 17

    

  • The Hole Shebang.

    George Musser

    pág. 18

    

  • Science on the Canvas.

    pág. 20

    

  • Outbreak Not Contained.

    Marguerite Holloway

    pág. 20

    

  • The Roots of Homicide.

    Rodger Doyle

    pág. 22

    

  • Schrodinger's SQUID.

    Graham P. Collins

    pág. 23

    

  • A Taste for Science.

    Sasha Nemecek

    pág. 24

    

  • Womb Wars.

    Lisa Melton

    pág. 24

    

  • Car Parts from Chickens.

    Diane Martindale

    pág. 26

    

  • One-Hit Wonder.

    Rebecca Lipsitz

    pág. 26

    

  • Power to the PC.

    David Pescovitz

    pág. 27

    

  • Throwing in the Tower.

    Phil Scott

    pág. 28

    

  • Women and the Professions.

    Rodger Doyle

    pág. 30

    

  • Six Billion and Counting.

    Julie Lewis

    pág. 30

    

  • Two Places at Once.

    Philip Yam

    pág. 32

    

  • Morticians Beware.

    Diane Martindale

    pág. 32

    

  • Budget Boost.

    Diane Martindale

    pág. 32

    

  • Whirl-a-Gig.

    George Musser

    pág. 32

    

  • Speech without Accountability.

    W. Wayt GIBBS

    pág. 34

    

  • The Fifth Taste.

    Steve Mirsky

    pág. 34

    

  • So you want to start a family...

    pág. 34

    

  • Insides Out.

    David Pescovitz

    pág. 34

    

  • A Greene Universe.

    pág. 36

    

  • Octothorp Standard.

    Wendy M. Grossman

    pág. 37

    

  • The Wireless Web.

    George Musser, Mark Alpert

    pág. 38

    

  • The Internet in Your Hands.

    Fiona Harvey

    pág. 40

    

  • Rules of the Game.

    Tim BEARDSLEY

    pág. 42

    

  • Who Wants Privacy?

    Paul Wallich

    pág. 44

    

  • The 1999 National Medal of Technology.

    pág. 46

    

  • The Promise and Perils of WAP.

    Karen J. Bannan

    pág. 46

    

  • Quantum Teleportation.

    Anton Zeilinger

    pág. 50

    

  • The Future is Here. Or Is It?

    David Wilson

    pág. 50

    

  • The Third Generation Gap.

    Leander Kahney

    pág. 54

    

  • Operating on a Beating Heart.

    Cornelius Borst

    pág. 58

    

  • Building a Brainier Mouse.

    Joe Z. Tsien

    pág. 62

    

  • THE POWER OF MEMES.

    Susan Blackmore

    pág. 64

    

  • Animals Imitate, Too.

    Lee Alan DUGATKIN

    pág. 67

    

  • Understanding Clinical Trials.

    Justin A. Zivin

    pág. 69

    

  • Meme Theory Oversimplifies How Culture Changes.

    Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd

    pág. 70

    

  • People Do More Than Imitate.

    Henry Plotkin

    pág. 72

    

  • NABADA: The Buried City.: The Buried City.

    Joachim BRETSCHNEIDER

    pág. 74

    

  • The Discovery of Brown Dwarfs.

    Gibor Basri

    pág. 76

    

  • Better DECISIONS through SCIENCE.

    Robyn M. Dawes, John Monahan, John A. Swets

    pág. 82

    

  • The Aleutian Kayak.

    George B. Dyson

    pág. 84

    

  • The Hard and the Soft.

    Naomi Lubick

    pág. 88

    

  • Down among the Micrograms.

    pág. 90

    

  • Monitoring Earth's Vital Signs.

    Michael D. King, David D. Herring

    pág. 92

    

  • Million-Dollar Minesweeper.

    pág. 94

    

  • Apocalyptic Optimism.

    VERNOR VINGE

    pág. 96

    

  • Who Were the Neandertals?

    Kate Wong

    pág. 99

    

  • Hybrid Vigor!

    pág. 99

    

  • Getting High.

    pág. 100

    

  • Founding Father of Invention.

    pág. 104

    

  • Cleaning Agents.

    Louis A. Bloomfield

    pág. 108

    

  • A Furnace in a Thermos.

    Shawn Carlson

    pág. 110

    

  • Counting the Cattle of the Sun.

    pág. 112

    

  • A Three-Billion-Year Memoir.

    Dean H. Hamer

    pág. 114

    

  • The Lion Emperors.

    Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison

    pág. 117

    

  • Water Music.

    James Burke

    pág. 118

    

  • Mind Reading This?

    Steve Mirsky

    pág. 120