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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

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 […]

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

Review by Rachel Zelkowitz.