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  1. Space

    Mining for Missing Matter

    In underground lairs, physicists look for the dark stuff.

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  2. Astronomy

    Celestial wish list

    A panel of astronomers ranks proposed astrophysics projects for the coming decade.

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  3. Science Future for August 28, 2010

    September 11 Air and Space Museum’s     September Star Party near Paris, Va. See www.nasm.si.edu/events/skywatching/ September 15 – 17 Researchers and policy makers meet in Austin, Texas, to discuss aging in the Americas. Go to www.utexas.edu/lbj/caa/2010 October 4 – 8 World virologists meet in Italy about HIV/AIDS and cancer. See www.ihv.org

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  4. Science Past from the issue of August 27, 1960

    CAT PHOBIA TREATMENT — [A] patient was cured of cat phobia by forcing herself to handle velvet until she got used to it. The patient, a 37-year-old married woman …  had had a fear of cats as long as she could remember…. The therapist began … [with] what she felt was the least objectionable idea […]

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  5. Book Review: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr

    Review by Rachel Zelkowitz.

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  6. Book Review: Climatopolis by Matthew E. Kahn

    Review by Matt Crenson.

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  7. 101Things Everyone Should Know About Math by Marc Zev, Kevin B. Segal and Nathan Levy

    Simple questions and answers teach math concepts and problem-solving skills. For kids age 10 to 14. 101THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MATH BY MARC ZEV, KEVIN B. SEGAL AND NATHAN LEVY Science, Naturally!, 2010, 208 p., $9.95.

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  8. The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck by Marcus Chown

    A cosmology writer puts basic physics principles in an everyday context. THE MATCHBOX THAT ATE A FORTY-TON TRUCK BY MARCUS CHOWN Faber and Faber, 2010, 269 p., $25.

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  9. Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light by Jane Brox

    The history of lighting is a microcosm of scientific and technological advances since the Stone Age. BRILLIANT: THE EVOLUTION OF ARTIFICIAL LIGHT BY JANE BROX Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010, 368 p., $25.

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  10. The Smart Swarm by Peter Miller

    The behavior of animal swarms, schools and colonies holds lessons for technology and design. THE SMART SWARM BY PETER MILLER Avery Press, 2010, 336 p., $20.

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  11. Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control by James Rodger Fleming

    Humans have long tried — and mostly failed — to engineer weather and climate, a historian of science shows. FIXING THE SKY: THE CHECKERED HISTORY OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE CONTROL BY JAMES RODGER FLEMING Columbia Univ. Press, 2010, 344 p., $27.95.

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  12. Letters

    Misunderstood males? I grew up on a farm, and it was not uncommon for male horses, male goats and even male deer to let out a snort whenever anxiety surfaced in them — whether it be from a predator in the area, the removal of food from their eating area or the wandering off of […]

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