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Science Past  from the issue of July 30, 1960

LIP-SMACKING GRASSHOPPER — A grasshopper with a talent for lip-smacking has turned out to be quite an unusual insect. Paratylotropidia brunneri Scudder is the first insect known to communicate over fairly long distances by producing an audible sound from the mouth — literally smacking its lips…. Produced at the rate of six or seven per […]

Book Review: Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience by Stephen S. Hall

Review by Rachel Zelkowitz.

Book Review: Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery by Stephen J. Pyne

Review by Alexandra Witze.

Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do by Albert-László Barabási

Mining digital data reveals patterns in seemingly spontaneous human behavior.