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  1. Natural History of the Point Reyes Peninsula by Jules G. Evens

    Univ. of California, 2008, 366 p., $24.95.

  2. The Symmetries of Things by John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel and Chaim Goodman-Strauss

    A.K. Peters, 2008, 426 p., $69.

  3. From Science News Letter, October 25, 1958

    PIONEER LACKED EXTRA PUSH —Pioneer, man’s first space probe, came within a fraction of the 35,250-foot-per-second velocity needed to put it into an orbit around the moon. It reached a maximum velocity of 34,400 feet per second. Even though the vehicle burned up in the earth’s atmosphere, its successful flight to a distance of 79,316 […]

  4. Science Future for October 25, 2008

    November 15 The Museum of Science in Boston will unveil a skeleton of Triceratops horridus as part of its Colossal Fossils: Triceratops Cliff exhibit. Visit www.mos.org December 7–12 The 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science will be held in Indianapolis. Visit escience2008.iu.edu April 30, 2009 Deadline for Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition. Visit www.nikonsmallworld.com

  5. Science Future for October 11, 2008

    October 16–25 Imagine Science Film Festival to be held in New York City. Visit www.imaginesciencefilms.com October 28–30 ChemEng08 to be held in Birmingham, England. Visit www.chemeng08.com November 1 The Dibner Hall of the History of Science opens at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif. Visit www.huntington.org

  6. From Science News Letter, October 11, 1958

    Fishy Conversations — Spiny lobsters are like men, their voices become deeper as they grow older. This is one of the preliminary findings of Dr. James M. Moulton of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., who spent this summer at the Bermuda Biological Station eavesdropping on the conversations of undersea life. In countless other marine biological stations […]

  7. Letters

    Only in the north It is not clear in the fine article on volcanoes (“Disaster goes global,” SN: 8/30/08, p. 16) how dust from the eruption of Huaynaputina, well south of the equator, in 1600 could affect only the Northern Hemisphere. David Bronson, Biddeford Pool, Maine For one thing, there’s less real estate in the […]

  8. ‘National Greatness’ versus real national greatness by Frank Wilczek

    From the October 11, 2008 issue of Science News.

  9. Book Review: Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller

    Review by Heather Benjamin.

  10. Book Review: A History of Paleontology Illustration by Jane P. Davidson

    Review by Sid Perkins.

  11. The Primate Family Tree: The Amazing Diversity of Our Closest Relatives by Ian Redmond

    Firefly Books, 2008, 176 p., $35.

  12. Solving Stonehenge: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma by Anthony Johnson

    Thames & Hudson, 2008, 288 p., $40.