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Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension by Andy Clark
Minds aren’t limited to the confines of the brain. Oxford Univ., 2008, 286 p., $35 Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension by Andy Clark
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Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2
All about the world’s largest global ecology lab. Synergetic Press, 2009, 308 p., $39.95 Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2 by John Allen
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The Computer as Crucible: An Introduction to Experimental Mathematics by Jonathan Borwein and Keith Devlin
Experimental math embraces computers. A K Peters, 2009, 158 p., $29.95 The Computer as Crucible: An Introduction to Experimental Mathematics by Jonathan Borwein and Keith Devlin
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Prairie Dogs: Communication and Community in an Animal Society by C.N. Slobodchikoff, Bianca S. Perla and Jennifer L. Verdolin
An investigation into how prairie dogs communicate a predator’s presence. Harvard Univ., 2009, 264 p., $39.95 Prairie Dogs: Communication and Community in an Animal Society by C.N. Slobodchikoff, Bianca S. Perla and Jennifer L. Verdolin
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The Atom and the Apple: Twelve Tales from Contemporary Physics by Sébastien Balibar
A physicist explores chaos, cosmology, fluid mechanics and more. Princeton Univ., 2008, 190 p., $24.95 The Atom and the Apple: Twelve Tales from Contemporary Physics by Sébastien Balibar
- Humans
Nation needs recovery plan for science faculty jobs
Over the past few months, many graduate students and postdocs have been receiving letters from department chairs apologetically explaining that the faculty job search at Institution X has been canceled. State and private universities are facing declining tax revenues and falling endowments, and are unwilling to raise tuition on newly impoverished families. From Harvard to […]
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Letters
Galaxy clusters slide Could the general motion of galaxy clusters (“Galaxy clusters slide to the south,” SN: 10/25/08, p. 12) be evidence of rotational motion of the matter components of the universe on a scale much larger than the observable universe? Would such motion not also result in accelerating expansion of the observable universe, as […]
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Science Past for February 28, 1959
WEATHER SATELLITE ORBITING — The United States has launched into orbit the first baby weather station in space. It was hurled into its earth-circling path at 10:55 a.m. Feb. 17, and its predicted lifetime is several decades. The batteries powering the radio transmitting weather information, however, have only a two-week lifetime. The 20-inch, 21.5-pound satellite […]
- Space
Cosmic mystery
High-energy invaders from space could signal a nearby pulsar, or perhaps dark matter.
- Life
Mitochondria Gone Bad
Problems in the cell’s energy factories power new ideas on disease and aging.
- Earth
First wave
The presidents of two island nations draft escape plans, anticipating sea level rise.
- Climate
Plumes of arctic haze traced to Russia, Kazakhstan
Smoke from forest fires, agricultural burning may be substantial part of springtime plumes.
