Uncategorized
-
Book Review: Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters
Review by Bruce Bower.
-
The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model by S. Nassir Ghaemi
A psychiatrist criticizes the idea of psychiatric disease as a product of biological and social factors. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2010, 253 p., $50. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL BY S. NASSIR GHAEMI
-
Nature’s Chemicals: The Natural Products that Shaped Our World by Richard Firn
A biologist explores useful compounds made by plants and microbes. Oxford Univ. Press, 2010, 250 p., $65. NATURE’S CHEMICALS: THE NATURAL PRODUCTS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD BY RICHARD FIRN
-
Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging by Greg Critser
An aging society has spurred academics and entrepreneurs to study getting old and what could or should be done to stop it. Harmony Books, 2010, 234 p., $26. ETERNITY SOUP: INSIDE THE QUEST TO END AGING BY GREG CRITSER
-
The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World by William Sims Bainbridge
Studying players in the computer game World of Warcraft can explain real-world group behavior, a sociologist argues. MIT Press, 2010, 244 p., $27.95. THE WARCRAFT CIVILIZATION: SOCIAL SCIENCE IN A VIRTUAL WORLD BY WILLIAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE
-
Flatland: An Edition with Notes and Commentary
by Edwin A. Abbott, notes by William F. Lindgren and Thomas F. Banchoff.
- Psychology
Researchers find early autism signs in some kids
A long-term investigation raises the possibility of identifying 14-month-olds who will develop autism spectrum disorder almost two years later.
-
Science Future for March 27, 2010
April 23 Celebrate National DNA Day through a webchat with NIH researchers. Go to www.genome.gov/10506367 April 26 – 30 Scientists and engineers meet in Nottingham, England, to discuss the science of quantum dots. See www.qd2010.org May 14 Deadline for receipt of nominations for AAAS fellows. Download forms at www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows
-
Science Past from the issue of March 26, 1960
HIDDEN WATER TRACED BY BOMB FALLOUT IN RAIN — Radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests can be used to seek out and “expose” new sources of drinking water that lie hidden deep in the earth…. Raindrops have an affinity for absorbing minute particles of tritium from the fallout left in the atmosphere after nuclear bomb […]
-
Letters
Ancient graffiti Regarding “Graffiti on the walls in Pompeii” (SN: 01/30/10, p. 14), I remember reading some years ago about graffiti being discovered in Pompeii. There was even a symbol that researchers interpreted as a sort of “Kilroy was here.” Is this an ongoing study? New sites? I wonder if there were other markings, such […]
- Space
Magnetic flows cause sunspot lows, study shows
Observations of gas flows on the solar surface may explain why the sun recently had such a prolonged case of the doldrums; could lead to more accurate predictions for the duration and severity of future solar cycles.
- Physics
For quantum computer, add a dash of disorder
Flawed crystals could help couple light to matter and may compete with more perfectly ordered materials.
