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In the June 24 SN: Unlikely worlds around dim red stars, bacteria to the rescue, flamingos’ balancing act, Jupiter up close, hominid origins revisited, spacetime shakes again, ladybug wing origami and more.
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Fructose fever
I was fascinated by the article “Sweet confusion” (SN: 6/1/13, p. 22) about the ambiguous health effects of high fructose corn syrup. I was surprised, however, to find little mention of taste, flavor and satiety. I can clearly recall from my childhood the satisfaction from a bottle of Coca-Cola. The transition in America in the 1970s from sucrose to corn syrup as a sweetener in soft drinks was brought home to me in my travels to Central America in the ’80s and ’90s, where cane sugar was still used as a sweetener. Drink a soft drink with cane sugar and you are satisfied. Satiety is the key to the obesity epidemic.
Art Vaughn, Warren, Ohio - Letters to the Editor
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ENVIRONMENT
See good news for birds in “So far, the great tit has coped with climate change.”LIFE
Fossils show how birds shifted their weight as they evolved. Read “Birds may have had to crouch before they could fly.”Flowerlike corals pulsate to boost photosynthesis by algae harbored inside. See “Why corals do calisthenics.”
RANDOMNESS
Tom Siegfried examines theories of generosity in “Greed may breed financial fitness, but evolution allows unselfishness to survive.” - Reviews & Previews
A Palette of Particles by Jeremy Bernstein
A guide to the subatomic realm uses the metaphor of a painter’s palette, with protons, neutrons and electrons as primary colors and more exotic particles adding new shades.
Belknap, 2013, 212 p., $18.95
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Between Man and Beast
Victorian explorer Paul Du Chaillu heads into African forests in 1856 to find a mysterious creature then just a rumor in the Western world: the gorilla.
Doubleday, 2013, 331 p., $26.95
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A Renaissance Globemaker's Toolbox
Meet Johannes Schöner, a 16th century mathematician and scientist who collected and corrected the star charts and maps of his day.
Library of Congress, 2013, 176 p., $29.95