Natural History

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Articles in Nov 2001 issue of Natural History

• "Bulletproof T-shirts, anyone?" - Letters
  by Daniel Marcus
• Radio Bubble: alien couch potatoes? It's possible, thanks to escaping TV and radio signals - Universe - radio waves
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land - Field Trials: naturalists have a bent for writing intriguing memoirs. This year has seen a bumper crop - book - Review
  by Steven N. Austad
• All inclusive - Letters
  by Paul Dale Roberts
• Of water and wire grass: a placid river meets a threatened prairie, and a botanist rejoices - This Land - Myakka River in Florida - Brief Article
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons - Field Trials: naturalists have a bent for writing intriguing memoirs. This year has seen a bumper crop - book - Review
  by Steven N. Austad
• The perfect fossil: to a museum entomologist, studying a cretaceous insect exquisitely preserved in amber is a very close second to seeing the living thing - At The Museum - Brief Article
  by Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.
• Habitats - Myakka River, Florida - Brief Article
• Natural borders - nature.net - online interactive maps from National Geographic Society - Brief Article
  by Robert Anderson
• Film & video festival: November 2 through 10 the 25th annual Margaret Mead - Museum Events - Margaret Mead Film Festival - Brief Article
• A superlative penquin: the least known, last studied, strangest penguin takes a scientist on a most uncomfortable journey - erect-crested penguins - Cover Story
  by Lloyd Spencer Davis
• Bookshelf - new books related to natural history - Review
• How to stalk a spitting spider: on a mountain in the Philippines, the hunter risks becoming the hunted - Findings
  by Robert R. Jackson
• Altruism in the outback: for some tiny Australian insects, the willingness to die for one's home is a relative matter
  by Bernard J. Crespi
• Outta sight: once in a while, Jupiter's moons take a walk - Celestial Events - Brief Article
  by Richard Panek
• Us and them: junk DNA raises the question, whose life is it anyway? - The Evolutionary Front - genome research
  by Carl Zimmer
• Islands of autumn: amid the deserts of Arizona, maples blaze a trail - Brief Article
  by Wade C. Sherbrooke
• The sky in November - Brief Article
  by Joe Rao
• A turtle out of water: to freeze or not to freeze: a hatchling's dilemma - In The Field - ability of snapping turtle hatchlings to freeze their bodies for survival - Brief Article
  by Peter J. Marchand
• A lost Menagerie: during the past 500 years, countless animal species have gone extinct, some to loud lamentation, others to little notice. Now the art and words of two men have brought to life dozens of the lost creatures, including this sampling—th
  by Tim Flannery
• Sand Dune two-step: the need for speed may bring these lizards to their feet - hind - Biomechanics - Mojave fringe-toed lizard - Brief Article
  by Adam Summers
• A late summer day - Up Front - collapse of World Trade Center - Brief Article
  by Ellen Goldensohn
• Don't tread on it - In Sum - damage to tundra in the Arctic - Brief Article
  by Kirsten L. Weir
• The enigmatic art of Sanxingdui: bronze trees and masks evoke the spirit worlds of a lost civilization in China
  by Jay Xu
• Stuffin' - The Natural Moment - North American wild turkey - Brief Article
• Going lightly - Letters
  by Joel Marks
• Nature's candy - In Sum - shrub in Brazil produces candy pellets for pollinators - Brief Article
  by Kirsten L. Weir
• Captivating Life: A Naturalist in the Age of Genetics - Field Trials: naturalists have a bent for writing intriguing memoirs. This year has seen a bumper crop - book - Review
  by Steven N. Austad
• The last days of an Assassin - Endpaper - wheel bug - Brief Article
  by Elizabeth Cator
• Speed kills - Letters
  by Francis Mac Dowell
• Mutant ninja bacteria - In Sum - increasing drug resistance of antibiotics leads to contamination in sewage systems in developing countries - Brief Article
  by Maria Ribaudo
• Beyond the Last Village: A Journey of Discovery in Asia's Forbidden Wilderness - Field Trials: naturalists have a bent for writing intriguing memoirs. This year has seen a bumper crop - book - Review
  by Steven N. Austad