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Science Future for March 10, 2012
March 30–31 Meet astronaut Richard Linnehan and Nobel winners at the Texas A&M Physics and Engineering Festival in College Station. See bit.ly/SNtamu March 31 See glowing creatures at a bioluminescence exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Learn more at bit.ly/SNbiolum
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Science Past from the issue of March 10, 1962
KENNEDY URGES BETTER PAY — President John F. Kennedy’s proposal to raise the pay scale for top Government employees should help stem the flow of scientists and engineers now leaving public service for much higher pay in industry…. The top Government salary under most scales is $18,500 a year. Many top positions are not filled […]
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Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? by Nancy Leys Stepan
Attempts to wipe out diseases such as malaria come with a cost, this history of eradication campaigns shows. Cornell Univ., 2011, 309 p., $39.95
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Riddle of the Feathered Dragons: Hidden Birds of China by Alan Feduccia
An evolutionary biologist reviews fossil evidence for bird and dinosaur evolution and contests the view that birds are the last living dinosaurs. Yale Univ., 2012, 358 p., $55
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African American Women Chemists by Jeannette Brown
A chemist sketches the lives of women who broke racial boundaries, including Marie Maynard Daly, the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1947. Oxford Univ., 2012, 272 p., $35
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DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World by David Kinkela
Science and politics collide in this history of one of the world’s most controversial pesticides. Univ. of North Carolina, 2011, 272 p., $39.95
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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 by Mircea Pitici, ed.
This anthology offers an overview of stories written for a popular audience about the mysteries and everyday uses of math. Princeton Univ., 2012, 414 p., $19.95
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BOOK REVIEW: Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist by Christof Koch
Review by Laura Sanders.
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Mix and Match Qubits
Hybrid strategy may yield long-awaited quantum computers.
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- Physics
Loose cable blamed for speedy neutrinos
In uncovering a technical flaw, physicists now know why an experimental result that couldn’t have been true wasn’t.
