Scientific american (March 2003)

Cover 1 Table of Contents 2 Total Information Overload 4 How to Contact Us 5 Letters to the Editors 6 50, 100 & 150 Years 8 From Lab to Embassy 9 Connect the Pings 10 Out on a Limb 11 Getting Warmer 12 Triggered Swarms 13 Sustainable Surgery 15 By the Numbers: Sizing Up Evangelicals 16 News Scan Briefs 17 Innovations: The Relentless Storm 19 Staking Claims: Some Rights Reserved 22 Skeptic: Demon-Haunted Brain 23 Profile: Man against a Mountain 24 The Search for Dark Matter 26 Dismantling Nuclear Reactors 34 Restoring Aging Bones 44 Digital Entertainment Jumps the Border 52 Which Came First, the Feather or the Bird? 58 Bugs in the Brain 68 Working Knowledge: No Two Alike 72 Voyages: Follies and Foucault's Pendulum 74 Reviews: The Neurologist and the Philosopher 77 On the Web 79 Puzzling Adventures: Safecracking 80 Anti Gravity: The Rael Thing 81 Ask the Experts 82 Fuzzy Logic 83