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  1. Health & Medicine

    Between men and women, dyslexia takes sides

    The second day of the Society for Neuroscience meeting offers insights on dyslexia and gender, the brain on age, touch receptors under the skin and a way to reduce brain swelling after head trauma.

  2. Health & Medicine

    Feed your brain: News from neuroscience

    Highlights from the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting held in Washington, D.C.

  3. Math

    Book Review: The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Timothy Gowers, ed

    Review by Tom Siegfried.

  4. Science & Society

    All in a Day’s Work: Careers Using Science by Megan Sullivan

    NSTA Press, 2008, 140 p., $15.95.

  5. Climate

    Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat— And How to Counter It by Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig

    Hill and Wang, 2008, 253 p., $25.

  6. Science & Society

    Sound reasoning requires statistical understanding

  7. Science Future for November 22, 2008

    December 8–10 The National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment in Washington, D.C. Visit ncseonline.org December 9–12 Arctic Change 2008 to be held in Quebec City, Canada. Visit www.arctic-change2008.com December 13 Make body products with natural ingredients taken from cacao at the New York State Museum in Albany. Visit www.nysm.nysed.gov/calendar

  8. Science Past for November 22, 1958

    Volunteers show vaccine can prevent colds — The common cold can be prevented, a British scientist reported to the sixth annual Symposium on Antibiotics meeting in Washington, D.C. Weekly injections of a vaccine prepared from the volunteer’s own nose and throat bacteria significantly reduced the number of colds, Dr. J. Morrison Ritchie, director of the […]

  9. Letters

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  11. Science Future for November 8, 2008

    November 15 The Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C., unveils its holiday mechanical sculpture display. Visit www.ncmls.org November 20 “Irreplaceable: The World’s Most Invaluable Species” debate held in London. Visit www.earthwatch.org/europe December 15–18 20th International Conference on Magnetically Levitated Systems and Linear Drives in San Diego. Visit www.maglev08.com

  12. Science Past for November 8, 1958

    Temperate zones may be man’s limit for cold — Men living in the temperate zones had better not leave home for colder climes. The areas between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle and between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle represent the limits as far as their cold endurance goes, a […]