Natural History

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Articles in Dec 2005 issue of Natural History

• The next big one
  by Vincent A. Ettari
• Salt in the wound
  by Stephan Reebs
• Spore launchers: ferns and fungi that explosively reproduce
  by Adam Summers
• Misplaced Madison
  by Matthew J. Courchane
• Darwin
• Improvise and flourish
  by Peter Brown
• The birth of the uterus: genes that help determine what goes right or wrong in pregnancy also enabled early mammals to switch from laying eggs to bearing live young
  by Vincent J. Lynch
• Cosmic collisions: new space show at the Hayden Planetarium! Opens January 14, 2006
• And for the coffee table
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Holding up the Amazon
  by Stephan Reebs
• Shore leave
  by Erin Espelie
• Small things considered
• Lauri Halderman: director of Exhibition Interpretation Department of Exhibition
• Can't stand the heat
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Sudden collapse
  by William E. Scott
• Land of plenty: Austria's red deer feast on handouts and live half the year in fenced enclosures. Can they still fend for themselves?
  by Karoline T. Schmidt
• Museum events
• Space glitter: cosmic nanodiamonds may steal some sparkle from a quasar
  by Charles Liu
• Great leap
  by Graciela Flores
• Wet and wild: midway between Walt Disney World and the Kennedy Space Center lies a haven for Florida's natural delights
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• The lice and the whale
  by Graciela Flores
• Fyi reader service
• The sky in December and January
  by Joe Rao
• Bonobo watch
  by Robert Anderson
• Tale of a two-tailed virus
  by Stephan Reebs
• Wrong poison
  by Daniel Levitis
• Deep green
  by Jennifer Evans
• Stormy waters
  by John R. Moyer
• Fire and ice: the Earth may be warming, but the cosmos is headed toward a very big chill
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson