Natural History

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Articles in Oct 2005 issue of Natural History

• The great outdoors
• Energy to burn: conserved, consumed, or converted, it's the engine that drives every event
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Yunnan revealed
• Boxed up to go: the seemingly unwieldy shape of a fish is anything but a drag
  by Adam Summers
• Kahuna chronicles: an archaeologist traces a sacred Hawaiian valley from myth to modern times
  by Joseph Kennedy
• Discovery returns Space Station experiments for AMNH students
• Toxic treasure: poisons and venoms from deadly animals could become tomorrow's miracle drugs. And few places on Earth harbor so many deadly animals as Australia's Great Barrier Reef
  by Robert George Sprackland
• Blown away: since the wakeup call at Mount St. Helens, geoloogists have realized that collapsing volcanoes are far commoner than ever imagined
  by Lee Siebert
• Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries
• Fall masquerade
  by Erin Espelie
• FYI reader service
• Hazel Davies
• Disciplined change
  by Peter Brown
• Where glaciers did not tread; ice now lodges in crevices, creating miniature ice age habitats in North America's Driftless Area
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• Going green
  by Gregory L. Matloff
• Maps take flight
  by Robert Anderson
• Museum events: American Museum of Natural History
• Steps back in time
  by Stephan Reebs
• Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Leidy's legacy
  by Donald A. Windsor
• Number ten? A new object, bigger and farther than Pluto, is orbiting the Sun. But is it a planet?
  by Charles Liu
• Wise guys
  by Gary Noel Ross
• Know thine anemone
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Hunger: An Unnatural History
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Unfrozen north
  by Avis Lang
• The sky in October
  by Joe Rao
• The great neon sign in the sky
  by Rebecca E. Kessler
• The Great Hurricane: 1938
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Amuse me or lose me
  by Stephan Reebs
• Floridian melting pot
  by Brent R. Weisman
• Shades of green
  by Stephan Reebs
• Secret forays
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Token of thanks
  by Cherie Prather
• Fly long, live longer
  by Stephan Reebs
• The Museum's Halloween celebration offers a safe, warm, and dry evening of ferocious fun!
• Nature's little power plants
  by Rebecca E. Kessler
• You've gotta have heart
  by Jordon Hirshon