Scientific American Contents, Volume 315 Number 3, pp 4 - 92

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TABLE OF CONTENTS September 2016 Volume 315, 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 Looking Forward   p4 Mariette DiChristina doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-4 Letters Top Letters   pp5 - 6 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-5 Science Agenda Top The Tweets We Hold to Be Self-Evident   p7 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-7 Forum Top Many Planets, Not Much Life   p8 Paul Davies doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-8 Advances Top Can Medical Cannabis Break the Painkiller Epidemic?   pp10 - 12 Jeremy Hsu doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-10 Mirror Molecules in Space   p14 Nathan Collins doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-14 A Flood of Tears   p15 Noah Caldwell doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-15 An Auditory Component to Autism   p16 Anne Pycha doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-16a Blood Left at Scene Can Indicate Criminal Age   p16 Peter Andrey Smith doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-16b The Kilogram Makeover   pp18 - 19 Knvul Sheikh doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-18 Cleanup on Isle Nine   p20 Jesse Greenspan doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-20 Where Will All the New Neuroscientists Go?   p21 Gary Stix doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-21 Quick Hits   p22 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-22 We All Speed-Read   p23 Roni Jacobson doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-23 The Science of Health Top Cancer Gene Tests Provide Few Answers   pp24 - 25 Jessica Wapner doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-24 TechnoFiles Top What to Do with All Those Cassettes   p27 David Pogue doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-27 Features Top The Human Experiment   pp28 - 29 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-28 A History in Layers   pp30 - 37 Jan Zalasiewicz doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-30 Coping Skills   pp38 - 41 Katie Peek doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-38 A Tale of Two Worlds   pp42 - 47 Mara Hvistendahl doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-42 The Threat of Inequality   pp48 - 53 Angus Deaton doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-48 The Red Line   pp54 - 61 Stephen S. Hall doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-54 Living to 120   pp62 - 69 Bill Gifford doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-62 All Too Human   pp70 - 75 Hillary Rosner doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-70 Deep Time Deep Survival   pp76 - 79 David Grinspoon doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-76 The Great Unknown   pp80 - 85 Kim Stanley Robinson doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-80 Reviews and Recommendations Top Recommended   p86 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-86 Skeptic Top At the Boundary of Knowledge   p88 Michael Shermer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-88 Anti Gravity Top In Favor of Feline Felicity   p90 Steve Mirsky doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-90 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago Top 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago   p91 Daniel C. Schlenoff doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-91 Graphic Science Top Urban Wealth   p92 Katie Peek doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0916-92 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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