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Scientific American Contents, July 2012 Volume 307 Number 1, pp 8 - 92

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

July 2012 Volume 307, 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


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From the Editor

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Succeeding Together   p8
Mariette DiChristina
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-8

Letters

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Letters   pp10 - 12
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-10

Science Agenda

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To the Moons, NASA   p14
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-14

Forum

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How to Fulfill the True Promise of “mHealth”   p16
Francis Collins
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-16

Advances

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A Home on the Range   pp18 - 19
Susan H. Greenberg
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-18

Trashing the “Element from Hell”   p19
David Biello
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-19a

Fact Finder: Digit Divide   p19
Rebecca Coffey
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-19b

Why Sneezing Is Good for You   p20
Melinda Wenner Moyer
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-20

Who's #1?   p21
Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-21

Bad for Bugs and Brains?   p22
David Biello
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-22a

It's Electric   p22
Rose Eveleth
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-22b

Some Like It Too Hot   p23
Rebecca Coffey
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-23

The Last Worm   p24
Roxanne Nelson
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-24a

What Is It?   p24
Ann Chin
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-24b

How Critical Thinkers Lose Their Faith in God   p26
Daisy Grewal
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-26

Tracking Turtles from Space   p27
Carrie Madren
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-27

Particles for Peace   p28
George Musser
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-28a

How Spiders “Balloon”   p28
Anna Kuchment
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-28b

The Science of Health

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Perils of Newborn Screening   pp30 - 31
Ariel Bleicher
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-30

TechnoFiles

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Technology That Doesn't Fly   p32
David Pogue
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-32

Features

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Why We Help   pp34 - 39
Martin A. Nowak
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-34

Reading the Red Planet   pp40 - 43
John P. Grotzinger and Ashwin Vasavada
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-40

Secrets of the HIV Controllers   pp44 - 51
Bruce D. Walker
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-44

Fleet of Foot   pp52 - 53
Larry Greenemeier
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-52

Witness to an Antarctic Meltdown   pp54 - 61
Douglas Fox
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-54

Nobel Pursuits   pp62 - 73
John Matson and Ferris Jabr
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-62

The Rat that Laughed   pp74 - 77
Jesse Bering
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-74

Machines that Think for Themselves   pp78 - 81
Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-78

Reviews and Recommendations

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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus    p82
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-82a

Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor    p82
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-82b

Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature    p82
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-82c

The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On    p82
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-82d

Also notable: Family Books   p82
Anna Kuchment
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-82e

Skeptic

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Aunt Millie's Mind   p84
Michael Shermer
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-84

Anti Gravity

Top

Bred and Circuses   p85
Steve Mirsky
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-85

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

Top

50, 100 & 150 Years Ago   pp86 - 87
Daniel C. Schlenoff
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-86

Graphic Science

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Medal Migrations   p92
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-92

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