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Articles in June, 2004 issue of Natural History

• How to spread diversity
  by Stephan Reebs
• As the whale turns: the shape of the humpback's flippers might hold the secret to more maneuverable submarines
  by Adam Summers
• Animals by ear
  by Robert Anderson
• Losing Nemo?
  by Judith S. Weis
• Public information
  by Stephan Reebs
• Bear beware
  by Stephan Reebs
• A transit of Venus: early on the morning of June 8, the silhouette of Venus will slip across the Sun. The event, last seen in 1882, was once the key observation in determining the size of the solar system
  by Eli Maor
• The sky in June
  by Joe Rao
• The wrong stuff
  by Steven Soter
• Need for speed
  by Stephan Reebs
• A Pirate of Exquisite Mind—Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
  by Laurence A. Marshall
• Pass the dinner rolls
  by T.J. Kelleher
• Age and beauty: kin to both irises and onions, orchids have a long history and a large repertoire of enticing tricks
  by Kenneth M. Cameron
• A desert no more: astronomers have finally learned how to see the hidden galaxies in a murky epoch of ancient cosmic history
  by Charles Liu
• Hobby horses
  by David Gordon Wilson
• Cryptic creatures
• Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Calm before the song
  by Erin Espelie
• Whiter and brighter
  by Caitlin E. Cox
• Golden moldies: treasured by aficionados, fungi remain mostly anonymous subjects of distant kingdoms, underappreciated for their role as recyclers
  by George W. Hudler
• Tanks but no tanks
  by Clay Smith
• In hot water
  by Sarah L. Zielinski
• Dirty little secrets: "dress for success" is the key to the mating, game among Arctic ptarmigan
  by Bruce Lyon
• The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean
  by Laurence A. Marshall
• Unwelcome distraction
  by Peter Brown
• Sumo star
  by Joomi Kim
• Where have all the frogs gone? Biologists have examined a rogue's gallery of possible culprits. A leading suspect is an infective fungus
  by James P. Collins
• Amphibian alert!
• The heat is on
  by James J. Foley
• Invasion of the giant blobs
  by Stephan Reebs
• Mono mania: you can't drink the water, but brine shrimp and alkali flies prosper in a mineral-rich California lake
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• Museum events: American Museum of Natural History