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  1. Letters

    Why good looks look good The article “It’s written all over your face” (SN: 1/17/09, p. 24) made me recall another article (a couple of years ago, I think!) describing the work of researchers investigating an apparent human, obsessive need to identify patterns in our environment. The scientists studied stockbrokers with and without a specific […]

  2. Science Future for April 25, 2009

    April 28 Celebrate Save the Frogs Day. See savethefrogs.com/day May 23 Extreme Mammals: The Biggest, Smallest, and Most Amazing Mammals of All Time opens at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. See www.amnh.org May 24–27 Earth and space scientists present new findings at the 2009 Joint Assembly in Toronto. Visit  www.jointassembly2009.ca

  3. Science Past from the issue of April 25, 1959

    “Go-getter” type is heart attack candidate — The American “go-getter” type is a prime candidate for a heart attack. There appears to be a strong link between the behavior of a man with regard to his business and social activities and his chances of being a victim of a heart attack, two San Francisco specialists […]

  4. Science & Society

    Book Review: Made for Each Other: The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond by Meg Daley Olmert

    Review by Sid Perkins.

  5. Book Review: Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart

    Review by Elizabeth Quill.

  6. Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone by Lucas John Mix

    How the search for extraterrestrial life helps us understand Earth. Harvard Univ., 2009, 344 p., $29.95. Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone by Lucas John Mix

  7. Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth by Emily Mendenhall, ed.

    Short stories for youngsters reveal  worldwide public health problems. Univ. of New Mexico, 2009, 238 p., $21.95. GLOBAL HEALTH NARRATIVES: A READER FOR YOUTH BY EMILY MENDENHALL, ED.

  8. Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life by Martha Lampland and Susan Leigh Star, eds.

    Standards are a fact of life, from cradle to coffin size. Cornell Univ., 2009, 244 p., $22.95. Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life by Martha Lampland and Susan Leigh Star, eds.

  9. The Empathy Gap: Building Bridges to the Good Life and the Good Society by J.D. Trout

    This book argues that empathy and rationality are key to good personal and political decisions. Viking, 2009, 320 p., $25.95. THE EMPATHY GAP: BUILDING BRIDGES TO THE GOOD LIFE AND THE GOOD SOCIETY BY J.D. TROUT

  10. Before Sudoku: The World of Magic Squares by Seymour S. Block and Santiago A. Tavares

    Fascination with sudoku puzzles is not new. Oxford Univ., 2009, 239 p., $14.95. Before Sudoku: The World of Magic Squares by Seymour S. Block and Santiago A. Tavares

  11. Science Past for April 11, 2009

    Science Past | from the issue of April 11, 1959 Scientists urged to dig for specimens of Peking Man — Give up the loss of the bones of ancient Peking Man, one of man’s earliest ancestors, as a “perfect crime,” and start digging for new specimens of this Pleistocene forebear. This is the advice to […]

  12. Science Future for April 11, 2009

    April 22–26 Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology to be held in Atlanta. See www.saa.org April 29 Psychologist Daniel Levitin and Grammy Award–winner Rosanne Cash speak at What Is Music to Your Ears? The Science of Hearing in New York City. See www.nyas.org June 1–3 The e-Biosphere 09 International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics […]