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Articles in Oct 1986 issue of Discover
- Old man river lightens up his load - lead in Mississippi River sediments
by Sarah Boxer - The case of the vagrant birds - or, left coast, here we come - bird migration - column
by Jared Diamond - Deciphering a hard to figure figure - Nazca Indian designs in Peru
by Sarah Boxer - The hard part was the hard parts - paleontological dig in Kenya
by Pat Shipman - The fall and decline of some Levant voles - lemming-like deaths in Israel
by Sarah Boxer - Not just another pretty face - naked mole rat
by Elizabeth Pennisi - The littlest dinosaur
- Unscrambling pay TV's new descramblers - HBO's new encryption system, Videocipher II
- The dark affliction of mind and body - mental depression
by Winifred Gallagher - Jesus's boat? a wreck that's becoming a relic - ancient boat wreck in the Sea of Galilee
- Old Ironsides and the big E - Eric Seidman, art director for Discover - editorial
by Gilbert Rogin - How fleas contribute to the economy - and dandruff - Light Elements - column
by James Gorman - A honey of a question: are bees intelligent? - Up Front - column
- 'Look, doctor, I'm dying. Give me the drug.' - AIDS drug, AZT
by Denise Grady - Current thinking about speciation of eels - Up Front
- The reason South Africa is rich in minerals - Science Behind the News
- How much bang for the buck? - inadequate field testing of weapons
by Wayne Biddle - When everything has been done that could have been done - Vital Signs - column
by Perri Klass - How to tackle hard subjects - science writer Gary Taubes - editorial
by Gilbert Rogin - Would you vote for a man who says he's no kin to an ape? - Creationism - Light Elements - column
by James Gorman - An electrifying possibility; a Swedish radiologist posits an astounding theory; the human body has the equivalent of electric circuits - Bjorn Nordenstrom
by Gary Taubes - They won't swear that it's the oath - oldest American printed document - Oath of a Freeman
by Sarah Boxer - Fundamental research vs. basic economics - science and politics - column
by Daniel S. Greenberg - New super glues are now in circulation - using glue to reinforce blood vessel walls
by Sarah Boxer - Hey, you 'ologists,' don't put down the dabblers
by Gerald Weissmann - Why drug testing can be a very bad trip - testing employee drug use
- The perplexing life of Erno Rubik
by John Tierney - A world where too many children don't grow up - India - column
by Perri Klass - 'When symptoms become the focus of your life.' - symptoms of mental depression
by Winifred Gallagher - An open or shut case - the universe's rate of expansion and it's age
- Through a lens, darkly: the most massive object ever discovered - black hole gravitational lens
- The fighter of the future - Israel's new jet, the Lavi
by Peter Hellman - It could have been an extremely grim fairy tale - poisonous toads - Up Front - column
- A way to neuter your nuclear weapon - permissive action links - Update
- A half-baked theory of how our brains grew? - Up Front
- Smoke hoods can give passengers a few critical extra minutes - Special Report: Airline Safety
by David Nolan - Through a glass, brightly - David Scharf and scanning electron microscopy - editorial
by Gilbert Rogin - The granola factor, or the track as a model ecosystem - horse-race track - Light Elements - column
by James Gorman - The perils of human selection: it hasn't been a teddy bears' picnic - "natural selection" in teddy bear marketing - Up Front
- The game of the name is fame. But is it science? - Stanley Prusiner, "discoverer" of prions
by Gary Taubes - They fly in the face of danger - risk assessment at NASA
by Kevin McKean - Brain bogglers - geometric puzzles - column
by Michael Stueben - Unnoteworthy notes - listing questions for doctor not sign of psychoneurosis
by Sarah Boxer - Art for science's sake - artistic depictions of scientific research; Lewis Calver - column
by Gilbert L. Rogin - DISH was their dish - diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in medieval monks
by Sarah Boxer - The gift of life must always remain a gift - organ donations and biotechnology industry
by Thomas H. Murray - Why cats are causing the decline of civilization - column
by James Gorman - The vaccine that may prevent pregnancy
- The several sorts of sorts - sorting objects
by Hugh Kenner - 1986 Ad
by Gilbert L. Rogin - Now we're all going to be doctors - matching medical students with programs
by Perri Klass - A shocking tale about dummies that smart - electrified dummies deter tiger attacks
- Waiting for the big one - earthquakes in California
by Shannon Brownlee - When anaesthesia fails to anaesthetize - patients feel and hear during operations - Up Front - column
- New bones to pick about osteoporosis and calcium supplements - Up Front
- A nude's revealing coat - Science Behind the News
- Some tips from experts on how to improve your chance of surviving
by David Nolan - Adding to electric costs: the retirement of brittle, old reactors - Up Front
- Everything's now tied to strings - superstring theory of universe
by Gary Taubes - Papal plea bargain, or was Galileo let off easy? - punished for Copernicanism instead of atomism - Up Front
- A mundane master of cosmic visions - science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem
by John Tierney - Voyager was on target again; in the latest unmanned triumph, Voyager 2 surveyed Uranus and sent back a real bull's-eye
by Roger Overbye - The irresistible vs. the immutable - Pat Shipman's paleoanthropological findings - column
by Gilbert Rogin - One of the most agonizing decisions a doctor can make - brain death in infants
by Perri Klass - A shepherd keeps order on Neptune's arc - undetected moons may hold Neptune's partial ring
by Sarah Boxer - Stalwart survivors of the death railway - health of Allied POWs of the Japanese
by Sarah Boxer - What destroyed Challenger? - space shuttle
by Wayne Biddle - Out of adversity came diversity - Hugh Kenner - editorial
by Gilbert Rogin - One, two, three strikes your dead in this old ball game - Barbara Isaac suggests that early man hurled stones for hunting and fighting - Up Front
- This nose knows when it smells the truth - Aroma Disc system
by James Gorman - From a mighty oak, a little radiation sprang - underground nuclear test may not have gone as planned
- Some of the worst quakes occur where you would expect them least - faults within plates
by Allen Chen - Changing attitudes about not changing baby - doctors examine baby without changing diaper - Vital Signs - column
by Perri Klass - The force that may be with us - or may not - mock gravity
- My first night on call: terror, exhilaration, exhaustion - pediatrician - Vital Signs - column
by Perri Klass - An African odyssey to save the elephant
by David Western - How to have your iguanas, and eat 'em too - iguana farming - Up Front
- How to envision the topology of a ten-dimensional universe - well, sort of
by Gary Taubes - The misguiding light: an eco of soap opera - baby sea turtles attracted to building lights - Update
- First it was 'save the whales,' now it's 'free the dolphins.' - animal rights activists - Opinion
by Shannon Brownlee