Scientific American Contents, February 2012 Volume 306 Number 2, pp 4 - 88

TABLE OF CONTENTS February 2012 Volume 306, Issue 2 From the Editor Letters Science Agenda Forum Advances The Science of Health TechnoFiles Features Reviews and Recommendations Skeptic Anti Gravity 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago Graphic Science Recommend to your library Web feed Available online only Subscribe From the Editor Top A Sea of Spacetime Foam? p4 Mariette DiChristina doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-4 Full Text | PDF Letters Top Letters pp6 - 8 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-6 Full Text | PDF Science Agenda Top Unschooled in Hard Knocks p10 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-10 Full Text | PDF Forum Top Science and Prejudice p11 David Kaplan doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-11 Full Text | PDF Advances Top Tensions Over Taikonauts p12 John Matson doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-12 Full Text | PDF A Man-Made Contagion p14 Jeneen Interlandi doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-14a Full Text | PDF It Detects Earthquakes and Lactose Intolerance p14 Melissa Gaskill doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-14b Full Text | PDF What is it? p15 Ann Chin doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-15 Full Text | PDF Just a Click Away p16 Anne Pycha doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-16a Full Text | PDF The Not So Hot Hand p16 John Matson doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-16b Full Text | PDF Mom Is My Wingman p18 Joan Raymond doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-18a Full Text | PDF Peeling Away Microbes p18 Rose Eveleth doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-18b Full Text | PDF Gumming Up Appetite p20 Ferris Jabr doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-20a Full Text | PDF A Long Flight but No Baggage p20 Katherine Harmon doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-20b Full Text | PDF Stat p20 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-20c Full Text | PDF Inside the Mind of a Video Game Champ p21 Sandra Upson doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-21 Full Text | PDF Making Liquids Go Bipolar p22 W. Wayt Gibbs and Nathan Myhrvold doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-22a Full Text | PDF In Sync, on a Quantum Level p22 John Matson doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-22b Full Text | PDF Stat p22 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-22c Full Text | PDF Storybook Wishes for Martian Rovers p24 Glendon Mellow doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-24a Full Text | PDF The Impracticality of a Cheeseburger p24 David Wogan doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-24b Full Text | PDF Oral Exam p24 Katherine Harmon doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-24c Full Text | PDF The Science of Health Top A Diabetes Cliffhanger pp26 - 28 Maryn McKenna doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-26 Full Text | PDF TechnoFiles Top The Future Is for Fools p29 David Pogue doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-29 Full Text | PDF Features Top Is Space Digital? pp30 - 37 Michael Moyer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-30 Full Text | PDF The Great Prostate Cancer Debate pp38 - 43 Marc B. Garnick doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-38 Full Text | PDF Swept from Africa to the Amazon pp44 - 49 Jeffrey Bartholet doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-44 Full Text | PDF Sleeping with the Enemy pp50 - 55 Kenneth F. Haynes doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-50 Full Text | PDF All Hands on Deck pp56 - 59 Kalee Thompson doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-56 Full Text | PDF The Future of Chocolate pp60 - 65 Harold Schmitz and Howard-Yana Shapiro doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-60 Full Text | PDF The Collision Syndrome pp66 - 71 Jeffrey Bartholet doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-66 Full Text | PDF Fetal Armor pp72 - 73 Claudia Kalb doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-72 Full Text | PDF The Brittle Star's Apprentice pp74 - 77 Gareth Cook doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-74 Full Text | PDF Reviews and Recommendations Top Recommended pp82 - 83 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-82 Full Text | PDF Skeptic Top Lies We Tell Ourselves p84 Michael Shermer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-84 Full Text | PDF Anti Gravity Top When Animals Accidentally Attack p86 Steve Mirsky doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-86 Full Text | PDF 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago Top 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago p87 Daniel C. Schlenoff doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-87 Full Text | PDF Graphic Science Top How Science Degrees Stack Up p88 Mark Fischetti doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0212-88 Full Text | PDF Top   Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. The contents of the Natureevents Directory are now live. The digital version is available here. Find the latest scientific conferences, courses, meetings and symposia on natureevents.com. For event advertising opportunities across the Nature Publishing Group portfolio please contact natureevents@nature.com More Nature Events

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