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TABLE OF CONTENTS October 2014 Volume 311, 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 You're Invited   p6 Mariette DiChristina doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-6 Letters Top Letters   pp8 - 10 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-8 Science Agenda Top Preferential Treatment   p12 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-12 Forum Top Passing the Midterm   p15 Ben Nelson doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-15 Advances Top When Good Proteins Go Bad   pp19 - 20 Tara Haelle doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-19 Safety in a Sock   p20 Rachel Scheer and Annie Sneed doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-20 Know the Jargon   p21 Jason G. Goldman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-21 Saving "Bambi"   pp22 - 23 Roger Drouin doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-22 Amoebas on Deathwatch   pp24 - 25 Jennifer Frazer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-24 Virtually Revolutionary   p26 Corinne Iozzio doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-26 See-Through Science   p27 Julia Calderone doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-27a What Is It?   p27 Kevin Schultz doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-27b How Big Animals Deter Cancer   p28 Annie Sneed doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-28 Earth's Impending Magnetic Flip   p29 Annie Sneed doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-29 Life Guard   p30 Erin Biba doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-30 The Science of Health Top The Other T Party   pp32 - 34 Carina Storrs doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-32 TechnoFiles Top Million-Dollar Stunt   p36 David Pogue doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-36 Features Top The Inclusion Equation   pp38 - 40 Fred Guterl doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-38 Where are the data?   pp40 - 41 Fred Guterl doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-40 How Diversity Works   pp42 - 47 Katherine W. Phillips doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-42 Particular Points of View   pp44 - 45 Douglas Medin, Carol D. Lee and Megan Bang doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-44 Science Exposed   p46 Steven Bishop doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-46 Taking It Personally   p47 D. N. Lee doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-47 In Pursuit of the Best Ideas   pp48 - 49 Stephanie C. Hill doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-48 Gender Gap   pp50 - 51 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-50 Inviting Everyone In   pp52 - 57 Victoria Plaut doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-52 Becoming Visible   pp54 - 55 Brian Welle and Megan Smith doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-54 A Beacon from the Big Bang   pp58 - 67 Lawrence M. Krauss doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-58 Saving Coffee   pp68 - 73 Hillary Rosner doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-68 Twists of Fate   pp74 - 81 Stefano Piccolo doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-74 An Inconvenient Ice   pp82 - 89 Lisa Margonelli doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-82 Let the Games Continue   pp90 - 95 Colm Mulcahy and Dana Richards doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-90 Reviews and Recommendations Top WTF, Evolution?! A Theory of Unintelligible Design   p96 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-96a Your Atomic Self: The Invisible Elements That Connect You to Everything in the Universe   p96 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-96b Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle   p96 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-96c Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory   p96 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-96d Skeptic Top Infrequencies   p97 Michael Shermer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-97 Anti Gravity Top The 2,000-Year-Old Joke   p98 Steve Mirsky doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-98 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago Top 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago   p99 Daniel C. Schlenoff doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-99 Graphic Science Top Family Histories   p100 Clara Moskowitz doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-100 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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