Scientific American Contents, January 2013 Volume 308 Number 1, pp 4 - 80

TABLE OF CONTENTS January 2013 Volume 308, Issue 1 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 Advertisement 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 Living in the Future   p4 Mariette DiChristina doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-4 Letters Top Letters   pp6 - 8 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-6 Science Agenda Top A To-Do List for Washington   p10 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-10 Forum Top Creation, Evolution and Indisputable Facts   p11 Jacob Tanenbaum doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-11 Advances Top Diamond Planets   p12 John Matson doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-12 Safe from Scorpions   p14 Erik Vance doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-14a Linking Immunity and Mental Health   p14 Susannah Cahalan doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-14b A Prehistoric Arms Race   p16 Kate Wong doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-16a How to Survive the Next Big Storm   p16 Mark Fischetti doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-16b The Missing Epoch   p17 Davide Castelvecchi doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-17 Crunch Time   p18 Larry Greenemeier doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-18a Patent Watch   p18 Marissa Fessenden doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-18b Stealth Pathogen   p19 Marissa Fessenden doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-19 What is it?   p20 Ann Chin doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-20a The Escape Hatch   p20 Eric Wagner doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-20b Super Long-Term Storage   p21 Timothy Hornyak doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-21a Healthier Ice Cream?   p21 Cesar Vega doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-21b A Feathered Innovator   p22 Jason G. Goldman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-22a Clever Coral   p22 Christie Wilcox doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-22b The Science of Health Top Is Fasting Good for You?   pp23 - 24 David Stipp doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-23 TechnoFiles Top The Trouble with Touch Screens   p25 David Pogue doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-25 Features Top Over the Horizon   pp26 - 28 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-26 A Drone in Every Driveway   pp28 - 29 Mary Cummings doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-28 The Nuclear Question   pp30 - 31 Ron Rosenbaum doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-30 A Cure for What Ails You   p32 Ricki Lewis doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-32 A Tsunami of Extinction   pp33 - 34 Thomas Lovejoy doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-33 The Fate of an Engineered Planet   pp34 - 36 David W. Keith and Andy Parker doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-34 A Bold and Foolish Effort to Predict the Future of Computing   pp36 - 37 Ed Regis doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-36 Starship Humanity   pp38 - 43 Cameron M. Smith doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-38 Strange and Stringy   pp44 - 51 Subir Sachdev doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-44 Bionic Connections   pp52 - 57 D. Kacy Cullen and Douglas H. Smith doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-52 Small Wonders   pp58 - 63 Kate Wong doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-58 The Coming Megafloods   pp64 - 71 Michael D. Dettinger and B. Lynn Ingram doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-64 A Confederacy of Senses   pp72 - 75 Lawrence D. Rosenblum doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-72 Reviews and Recommendations Top The Universe Within   p76 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-76a The Physics of Wall Street   p76 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-76b Drawn from Paradise   p76 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-76c The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix   p76 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-76d Mastermind   p76 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-76e Skeptic Top Logic-Tight Compartments   p77 Michael Shermer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-77 Anti Gravity Top Voyage of the Bagel   p78 Steve Mirsky doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-78 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago Top 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago   p79 Daniel C. Schlenoff doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-79 Graphic Science Top The True Cost of Risky Behavior   p80 Mark Fischetti doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0113-80 Top Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. 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