Scientific American 2001 No 8

Cover 1 Table of Contents 2 Another Cup of CAFE, Please 4 Letters to the Editors 5 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago 7 Concorde's Comeback 8 Road Map for the Mind 9 The Peak of Success 10 The Post-Genome Project 12 Computing with Light 13 An Environmental Solution 14 Wireless Wonder 15 News Scan Briefs 16 By the Numbers: U.S. Workers and the Law 18 Innovations: The Company's Company 19 Staking Claims: Talking Gene Patents 21 Skeptic: Deconstructing the Dead 22 Profile: Dissident or Don Quixote? 23 Go Forth and Replicate 26 The Ice of Life 36 Cybernetic Cells 42 Once Were Cannibals 48 Taming the Killing Fields of Laos 56 The Do-It-Yourself Supercomputer 62 The Trouble with Turtles 70 Working Knowledge: Crank It Up! 76 Technicalities: Touchy-Feely Computing 78 Reviews: A Spin on Spin Foam 81 Puzzling Adventures: The Delphi Flip 84 Anti Gravity: An the Winner Really Is... 85 Endpoints 86