Natural History

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Articles in March 2004 issue of Natural History

• Dubious species?
  by Frank Weigert
• Bermuda
• Meddling with pedaling: even as bicycle designs have improved, all bikes have been well matched with the peak power output of the muscles that drive them forward
  by Adam Summers
• Ghosts of suns past: Quasar hunters have accidentally discovered the largest planetary nebula ever seen in the night sky
  by Charles Liu
• Running the numbers
  by Caitlin E. Cox
• West Virginia
• Lawless in Mesopotamia: Iraq's antiquities were looted mostly by professional thieves, not by random hooligans. Archaeological sites are still imperiled by looters, as well as by hastily planned reconstruction
  by Zainab Bahrani
• The sky in March
  by Joe Rao
• Hobson's choice
  by Stephan Reebs
• New foundland & Labrador: millions of birds. No zoom lens required
• Computer model predicts chameleon distribution in Madagascar: satellite data and museum specimens can accelerate efforts to complete species inventories, aid in the design of future reserves, and help find new species
• Sunburn
  by Caitlin E. Cox
• Little St. Simons Island
• Museum events: American Museum of Natural History
• Your move?
  by Erin Espelie
• Clear and present danger
  by Stephan Reebs
• Going to great lengths
  by Stephan Reebs
• Better living through chemistry: an entomologist recounts a lifetime of adventures exploring the secret defenses of bugs
  by Robert L. Smith
• Fact-checking
  by Peter Brown
• How flies show off
  by Stephan Reebs
• French school, 300th century B.C
  by Avis Lang
• Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Whale watch
  by Ken Sweetman
• Five easy pieces
  by Joomi Kim
• Green means go
  by Stephan Reebs
• This Is Not a Weasel: A Close Look at Nature's Most Confusing Terms
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Nebulous categories: the many species of galaxies turn out to be close kin
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Monitor arithmetic
  by Jeff Orleans
• Cryptic creatures
• The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• It's elemental
  by Robert (American businessman and engineer) Anderson
• Throw backs
  by Stephen T. Palmer
• Smoke signals
  by Stephan Reebs
• Maryland
• The view from Mars
  by Fred W. Chesson
• New Brunswick
• Readerservice