Natural History

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Articles in Oct 2004 issue of Natural History

• A taste of our own medicine
  by Stephan Reebs
• Dispatches from the fern frontier: plants with an ancient pedigree are yielding their family secrets to molecular approaches
  by Robbin C. Moran
• Universal nonsense?
  by Hans J. Berliner
• Sit up when you snooze
  by Stephan Reebs
• Two faces of Texas: along the Devils River, wetland meets desert, and eastern sycamore thrives in sight of Christmas cactus
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• Lost and found
  by Jeff P. Turpin
• Cryptic creatures
• On the Wing: to the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Frogs v. trout
  by Chris Sherman
• Bluer means better
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Shadowy partner: astronomers may have detected what lurks in the shadow of the giant star Eta Carinae
  by Charles Liu
• I yam what I yam
  by Wolfgang J. Gruneberg
• The inhuman stain
  by Erin Espelie
• The Great Outdoors: the fall/winter getaway guide: autumn, when Mother Nature is in fall glory, is the perfect setting to embark on an adventure outdoors
• The sky in October
  by Joe Rao
• Hex wax
  by Stephan Reebs
• Mother tongue
  by Robert Anderson
• Our crowded niche
  by Peter Brown
• Ringside seat: sometimes, in science as in boxing, you want to be up close; sometimes you want to keep your distance
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• 2004 Ad
• Fishing for a living
  by Deborah Stone
• Birth of a salesman
  by Stephan Reebs
• Climb every waterfall! To reach competitor-free fish nirvana, Hawaiian gobies scale sheer cliffs to reach pools 2,000 feet above the sea
  by Peter T. Sherman
• "Seeing" earthquakes
• The Last Giant of Beringia: the Mystery of the Bering Land Bridge
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• High seas
  by Jordan Paul Amadio
• Slime and the cytoskeleton: how the defensive ooze of a hagfish sheds light on cellular structure
  by Adam Summers
• New study finds teenage Tyrannosaurus rex gained nearly five pounds daily
• The Forest for the Trees: How Humans Shaped the North Woods
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Red shifts
  by T.J. Kelleher
• Wherever the wind may blow: albatrosses and frigatebirds spend most of their long lives soaring over the sea. Miniature electronic trackers and sensors are now showing ornithologists where the birds go
  by Henri Weimerskirch
• 2004 Ad
• Before the invention of pumpkin pie
  by Stephan Reebs
• Issues and answers: Bush v. Kerry