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