Natural History

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Articles in Sept 2005 issue of Natural History

• Breaking point: not unlike a slab of cooling rock, DNA "cracks" under pressure in roughly predictable patterns
  by Adam Summers
• Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Color coordinated
  by Stephan Reebs
• Heat demons
  by Robert Anderson
• People at the AMNH
• Jaws of life: thousands of plant species place their fates in the mandibles of ants
  by Robert R. Dunn
• Museum events
• Prove it!
  by Peter Brown
• Female radicals
  by Stephan Reebs
• Finding the forest despite the trees: two new galaxies, hidden among, the stars
  by Charles Liu
• The birth of left and right
  by Stephan Reebs
• The ghosts in the machines: why does the industrial landscape seem so alien and forbidding?
  by Brian Hayes
• FYi reader service
• Science Explorations
• Losing sight
  by Steve Miller
• Flash of insight
  by Rebecca E. Kessler
• Monomoy
  by Scott Weidensaul
• Do the hop
  by Sondra F. Messina
• The magic flutes: nine thousand years ago, Neolithic villagers in China played melodies on instruments fashioned from the hollow bones of birds
  by Zhang Juzhong
• The sky in September
  by Joe Rao
• Clues to shoes
  by Caitlin E. Cox
• Grand Canyon: Solving Earth's Grandest Puzzle
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Evolution of the insects
• Tsunami postmortem
  by Dave Forest
• At the Museum's DinerSaurus Cafe on 4, opened in conjunction with the exhibition Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries, visitors can dine on any of several surviving theropod dinosaurs, such as chicken and turkey
• Flipper fashion
  by Graciela Flores
• Phantom of the Bayou: the author's thirty-year personal quest to find the ivory-billed woodpecker culminates in the first confirmed North American sighting of the elusive bird in more than fifty years
  by Bobby R. Harrison
• A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• The American Museum of Natural History is an educational destination for over 400,000 New York City schoolchildren who visit for free every year