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Home / SN Bookshelf / Reframing Scopes: Journalists, Scientists, and Lost Photographs from the Trial of the CenturyWatson Davis clipped a short article out of a newspaper on May 7, 1925. John Scopes had been arrested for discussing evolution in a Tennessee public high school. In the Scopes trial, Davis saw an opportunity for his young nonprofit organization, Science Service, to prove its worth. The Science Service Executive Committee agreed to give its reporters $1,000 to cover the trial. The committee also decided to reject neutrality, supporting the defense on the side of evolution. Davis and Frank Thone, the senior biology editor of Science Service’s newsletters, acted as journalist...Published: Monday, August 4th, 2008 -
Home / SN Bookshelf / The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It"The truth is that what ordinary people really care about are things they can see, with their own eyes,” writes Zimmerman, a science writer and historian. The Hubble Space Telescope has let the public see the universe and has completely changed humanity’s perception of the cosmos. The Universe in a Mirror explores the lives of the men and women who dreamed of, lobbied for and engineered the first optical, Earth-orbiting telescope — the one that made the view of the heavens clear. Zimmerman begins the story with astronomers who were “condemned to look at the he...Published: Monday, August 4th, 2008 -
September 10–13 First International Ragweed Conference in Budapest. Visit www.nki.hu/ragweed September 15 An Evening with Frank Wilczek: The Lightness of Being. Reception and book signing by the physics Nobel laureate at the New York Academy of Sciences. Visit www.nyas.org/events October 4 Great Insect Fair at Pennsylvania State University. Visit www.ento.psu.edu/scied/fair.htmlPublished: Friday, August 1st, 2008
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WATERBIRDS DISPOSSESSED — Marshes, swamps and wetlands throughout the United States are on their way out. Going with them are hundreds of our waterbirds. Ducks, geese, herons, grebes, coots and many other birds that depend on wetlands for nesting, shelter and food are being dispossessed. As water and land are being taken over for farming, industrial development or to give expanding cities room, whole populations of waterbirds are disappearing, many going north and south of the border. Three scientists, studying a small marsh in Utah, have been able to measure the direct effects of lost wetla...Published: Friday, August 1st, 2008
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Starry details The article “Astronomers find distant star with a whole set of superEarths” (SN: 7/05/08, p. 7) leaves out some of the most interesting and important information. Is HD 40307 a G-type star like our sun? Which method was used to detect the planets? The article implies Doppler was used, but Doppler could not give the specific masses of planets in the article. John Myers, San Diego, Calif. HD 40307 is a K-type star, spectral class K2.5V . You could call this an orange dwarf star. The researchers used the Doppler method. Technically their measurements give minimum masses. T...Published: Friday, August 1st, 2008
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Iridescent shortcut I was disappointed with your diagram of a Morpho wing in the June 7 issue (“How they shine,” SN: 6/7/08, p. 26). Rather than properly show different wavelengths of light interfering differently, you instead chose to cheat by keeping the wavelength the same in the two pictures and reversing the phase of the reflection from “Surface 2.” By doing this, you failed to illustrate the physics and lost an opportunity to elucidate it to the reader, who may instead come away with confusion or even an incorrect understanding of the phenomenon. Mike Speciner, Acton, Mass. ...Published: Monday, July 21st, 2008
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Stories about the iconoclasts who changed their fields by challenging assumptions.Published: Friday, July 18th, 2008Found in: Biology -
An argument that opposition to farm science hurts the poor.Published: Friday, July 18th, 2008Found in: Agriculture and Science & Society -
Home / SN Bookshelf / The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and Their PatientsPersonal essays from more than two dozen dedicated veterinarians who care for exotic animals in U.S. zoos.Published: Friday, July 18th, 2008Found in: Life -
The memoir from an ordinary woman with an extraordinary memory.Published: Friday, July 18th, 2008Found in: Body & Brain -
The reference book for all the major body systems, organized through a series of questions and answers.Published: Friday, July 18th, 2008Found in: Body & Brain -
PORCUPINES GNAWED ON STONE AGE MAN’S TOOLS — Razor sharp edges on some of the bone chisels of Middle Stone Age man in Africa were found to have been put there by the needle-sharp front teeth of porcupines, Dr. Raymond A. Dart of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, reports. But the fact that a magnifying glass showed up the telltale marks of rodent teeth on the Stone Age tools does not mean that ancient man himself did not do the original work in splitting and shaping the animal bones. At the Kalkbank Stone Age campsite … 3,619 bone fragments were collected. O...Published: Friday, July 18th, 2008Found in: Archaeology
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August 16–24 Australia celebrates National Science Week. Visit www.scienceweek.info.au September 18 and 19 University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Holtz Center presents "Climate Change is Global." Visit www.sts.wisc.edu October 8 Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to launch as part of the final mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Visit www.nasa.gov/missionsPublished: Friday, July 18th, 2008Found in: Astronomy, Climate Change and Science & Society
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The book details the 28 historic deluges that have hit the Lone Star State since 1900, with plenty of black and white photographs. Texas A&M Univ. Press, 2008, 330 p., $35.Published: Friday, July 4th, 2008 -
An illustrated tour of Egyptian tombs recounts the history and culture of ancient burial rites. Thames & Hudson, 2008, 368 p., $50.Published: Friday, July 4th, 2008
