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TABLE OF CONTENTS September 2014 Volume 311, Issue 3 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 Humanity's Journey   p4 Mariette DiChristina doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-4 Letters Top Letters   pp6 - 8 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-6 Science Agenda Top Free Up the Two-Year Colleges   p12 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-12 Forum Top Vive la Difference   p14 R. Douglas Fields doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-14 Advances Top Whispers of a Successor   pp19 - 20 Maggie McKee doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-19 Salt Swap   p20 Joseph Bennington-Castro doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-20a Dried Up   p20 Dina Fine Maron doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-20b An Origin Story   p21 Clara Moskowitz doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-21 Hitting Rock Bottom   p22 Lucas Laursen doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-22 By the Numbers   p23 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-23 Longer-Lasting Organs   p24 Dina Fine Maron doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-24 Plastic on Ice   p25 Rachel Nuwer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-25 What Is It?   p26 Annie Sneed doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-26 Sleeping through High School   p27 Mark Fischetti doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-27 Pick a Fight   p28 Jill U. Adams doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-28 Bat Deterrents   p29 Roger Drouin doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-29 The Thinker   p30 Jason G. Goldman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-30a Know the Jargon   p30 Annie Sneed doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-30b The Science of Health Top The Solid-Gold Wonder Drug   pp32 - 33 Jessica Wapner doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-32 TechnoFiles Top Unsettled Score   p35 David Pogue doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-35 Features Top Evolution Rewritten   pp36 - 39 Kate Wong doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-36 Where We Came From   pp40 - 41 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-40 Welcome to the Family   pp42 - 47 Bernard Wood doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-42 Climate Shocks   pp48 - 53 Peter B. deMenocal doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-48 If I Had a Hammer   pp54 - 59 Ian Tattersall doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-54 What Makes Us Special   pp60 - 61 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-60 Powers of Two   pp62 - 67 Blake Edgar doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-62 One for All   pp68 - 71 Frans de Waal doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-68 The “It” Factor   pp72 - 79 Gary Stix doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-72 Where We are Going   pp80 - 81 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-80 The Networked Primate   pp82 - 85 Mark Fischetti doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-82 Still Evolving (After All These Years)   pp86 - 91 John Hawks doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-86 Reviews and Recommendations Top The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know about the All-There-Is   p92 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-92a What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions   p92 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-92b The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control   p92 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-92c Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead   p92 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-92d Skeptic Top Surviving Statistics   p94 Michael Shermer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-94 Anti Gravity Top It's a Cookbook!   p96 Steve Mirsky doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-96 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago Top 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago   p98 Daniel C. Schlenoff doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-98 Graphic Science Top The 1 Percent Difference   p100 Kate Wong doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-100 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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