Scientific American Contents, October 2012 Volume 307 Number 4, pp 6 - 100

TABLE OF CONTENTS October 2012 Volume 307, Issue 4 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 Advertisement Scientific American Recommend to your library for online access Scientific American provides you with an overview of the latest in science and technology. Covering everything from medical research and hypertension to global climate change and evolution, Scientific American offers researchers, students, educators an online scientific resource they can rely on. Recommend site license access to your library today!   From the Editor Top A Global Affair   p6 Mariette DiChristina doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-6 Letters Top Letters   pp8 - 10 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-8 Science Agenda Top Solve the Nobel Prize Dilemma   p12 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-12 Forum Top Target the Super-Spreaders   p14 Kathleen A. Ryan doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-14 Advances Top The Exposure Cure   p16 Marissa Fessenden doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-16 Snap Judgment   p18 Larry Greenemeier doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-18a Stealing for Biodiversity   p18 Daisy Yuhas doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-18b Sergei Petrovich Kapitza   p19 Larry Greenemeier doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-19 Primordial Pinwheel   p20 John Matson doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-20a Bird Brains   p20 Sophie Bushwick doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-20b Seeing in the Rain   p21 Larry Greenemeier doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-21 The Art of Fishing   p22 Eric Wagner doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-22 What is it?   p23 Becky Crew doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-23a Stat: $70,000   p23 Larry Greenemeier doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-23b Coding Her Way to the Top   p24 Anna Kuchment doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-24 A "Just Right" Guitar   p26 Evelyn Lamb doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-26a Patent Watch   p26 Marissa Fessenden doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-26b Stuff That Designs Itself   p27 John Matson doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-27 Underground Network   p28 S. E. Gould doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-28a Urge to Merge   p28 John Matson doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-28b The Science of Health Top Drug Detectives   pp30 - 32 Deborah Franklin doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-30 TechnoFiles Top Rent Out Your Hot Button   p34 David Pogue doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-34 Features Top State of The World's Science   pp36 - 40 John Sexton doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-36 Why Germany Still Makes Things   pp41 - 43 Stefan Theil doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-41 Scorecard: The World's Best Countries in Science   pp44 - 45 The Editors  doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-44 Can China Keep Rising?   pp46 - 47 Philip G. Altbach and Qi Wang doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-46 Citizen Science U.   pp48 - 49 Michael M. Crow doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-48 The Other 1 Percent   pp50 - 51 Paula Stephan doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-50 Culture of Creativity   pp52 - 53 Fred Guterl doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-52 The Language of the Brain   pp54 - 59 Terry Sejnowski and Tobi Delbruck doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-54 Ecosystems on the Brink   pp60 - 65 Carl Zimmer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-60 The Higgs at Last   pp66 - 73 Michael Riordan, Guido Tonelli and Sau Lan Wu doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-66 Kinetic Kite   pp74 - 75 David Biello doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-74 The Wisdom of Psychopaths   pp76 - 79 Kevin Dutton doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-76 Journey to the Genetic Interior   pp80 - 84 Stephen S. Hall doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-80 Reviews and Recommendations Top "Dangerous Work"   pp90 - 91 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-90a The Joy of X   pp90 - 91 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-90b Mirror Earth   pp90 - 91 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-90c The Half-Life of Facts   pp90 - 91 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-90d Recommended: Also Notable   pp90 - 91 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-90e Skeptic Top Politically Irrational   p92 Michael Shermer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-92 Anti Gravity Top It's Full of Cats   p96 Steve Mirsky doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-96 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago Top 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago   pp98 - 99 Daniel C. Schlenoff doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-98 Graphic Science Top Fatter, Drunker Nation   p100 Mark Fischetti doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1012-100 Top   Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. 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