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TABLE OF CONTENTS August 2014 Volume 311, 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 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 The Shadow Universe and Other Marvels   p4 Mariette DiChristina doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-4 Letters Top Letters   pp6 - 7 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-6 Science Agenda Top Will Work for Machines   p10 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-10 Forum Top The Talent Gap   p13 Rena F. Subotnik, Paula Olszewski-Kubilius and Frank C. Worrell doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-13 Advances Top Africa's Great Divide   pp17 - 18 Erin Biba doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-17 Don't Put the "Pee" in Pool   p18 Carrie Arnold doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-18 A Network That Never Goes Down   p19 Corinne Iozzio doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-19 Street-Legal Robots   p20 Corinne Iozzio doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-20 Know the Jargon   p21 David Biello doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-21a By the Numbers   p21 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-21b Pterosaur Tech   pp22 - 23 Annie Sneed doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-22a 5 National Landmarks Threatened by Climate Change   pp22 - 23 Annie Sneed doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-22b Foliage Friendships   pp24 - 25 Peter Andrey Smith doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-24 By the Numbers   p25 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-25 Rendezvous with a Comet   p26 Clara Moskowitz doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-26 Top-down Control   p27 Jason G. Goldman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-27 Why Babies Forget   p28 Annie Sneed doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-28a What Is It?   p28 Amber Williams doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-28b The Science of Health Top Can Brown Fat Defeat Obesity?   pp30 - 32 Melinda Wenner Moyer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-30 TechnoFiles Top The Two Tribes of Technology   p34 David Pogue doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-34 Features Top The Black Hole at the Beginning of Time   pp36 - 43 Niayesh Afshordi, Robert B. Mann and Razieh Pourhasan doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-36 Whispers from Creation   p42 Niayesh Afshordi, Robert B. Mann and Razieh Pourhasan doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-42 A New Kind of Inheritance   pp44 - 51 Michael K. Skinner doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-44 Accidental Genius   pp52 - 57 Darold A. Treffert doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-52 Sickness Spreads across the Arctic   pp58 - 63 Christopher Solomon doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-58 Saving Big Data from Itself   pp64 - 67 Alex "Sandy" Pentland doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-64 The Science of Learning   pp68 - 73 Barbara Kantrowitz doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-68 Stop Lecturing Me   pp70 - 71 Carl Wieman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-70 Cosmic (In)Significance   pp74 - 77 Caleb Scharf doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-74 Reviews and Recommendations Top The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection   p78 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-78a The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload   p78 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-78b Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It   p78 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-78c Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)   p78 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-78d Skeptic Top ClimeApocalypse!   p79 Michael Shermer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-79 Anti Gravity Top Things That Go Bump   p80 Steve Mirsky doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-80 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago Top 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago   p82 Daniel C. Schlenoff doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-82 Graphic Science Top Rising Temperatures Hit Species Hotspots   p84 Mark Fischetti doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0814-84 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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