Natural History

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Articles in Dec 2002 issue of Natural History

• Who is the center of the universe?
  by Peter Brown
• Museum events
• The sky in December and January
  by Joe Rao
• General info
• O hungry night
  by Erin Espelie
• Lots of foam, please
  by Stephan Reebs
• Dry, dry again: to survive in its desert home, the tortoise of the American Southwest must tolerate immense swings in its body chemistry
  by Kenneth A. Nagy
• Experiment of the month
  by Stephan Reebs
• Dodging mass extinction: all around, species were dying off. But in this Devonian reef, life went on. Why?
  by Rachel Wood
• Letter from the American Museum of Natural History
  by Ellen V. Futter
• Handy antidote
  by Jack (American boxer) Johnson
• Dark skies over Brooklyn
  by Stanley B. Dickes
• Shark sex
  by Stephan Reebs
• How does that grab you? Biologists are discovering that bacteria can cling to your cells much the way a "finger trap" grasps your finger
  by Adam Summers
• Letter from the Skirball Cultural Center
  by Uri D. Herscher
• On comets and canids
• Hot plants
  by Stephan Reebs
• On golden pond: miners and beavers have created a lovely, quiet California wetland—through no fault of their own
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• Letter from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  by Menachem Magidor
• A place in the queue
  by George Cammarota
• Surf and turf
  by Stephan Reebs
• The unselfish genome: the case for cooperating genes
  by Menno Schilthuizen
• The exhibition
• Ingredients of life
  by Melvyn J. Oremland
• Abandoned in the garden
  by Stephan Reebs
• Interview with curator Michael M. Shara
• Climate watch
  by Robert (American businessman and engineer) Anderson
• Stalinist biology
  by Myron R. Schoenfeld
• Delusions of centrality: even astronomers have had a hard time accepting that humanity does not inhabit a special part of the universe
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Great things are happening at the American Museum of Natural History
• The First Europeans: Treasures from the Hills of Atapuerca: who were the earliest humans in Western Europe? How long ago did they live and what were their lives like?
• For the coffee table
  by Michel DeMatteis
• Become a member of the American Museum of Natural History
• An interview with the curator of Einstein, Michael M. Shara
• Searching for your inner chimp: can a few thousand genes make all the difference between people and their closest living relatives? - The Evolutionary Front
  by Carl Zimmer
• Universe by number: can cosmology be as easy as one, two, three?
  by Charles Liu
• And while you're here …