Natural History

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Articles in Nov 2004 issue of Natural History

• Round about
  by Duncan Goldthwaite
• Cold fission
  by Stephan Reebs
• The sky in November
  by Joe Rao
• Ties that bind: Hopi gift culture and its first encounter with the United States
  by Peter M. Whiteley
• Blackout is beautiful
  by Stephan Reebs
• Museum events
• Mouth to mouth: saliva transfer can help animals communicate, medicate, or even kill. Evolution has given rise to a variety of salivary mixtures that are being mined for ways to help save human lives
  by Lawrence A. Tabak
• Giant squid lived fast, died young
• Sultans of rot
  by Gary Noel Ross
• Whence the dingo
  by Stephan Reebs
• This NASA Mars Exploration Rover is on display in the Museum's Cullman Hall of the Universe; it is a full-scale replica of the ones currently on Mars
• Peruvian dry life: between the Andes and the Pacific, an arid landscape harbors abundant life
  by Robert S.R. Williams
• Hey there, big boy …
  by Stephan Reebs
• On August 4, 2004, New York City Council member Jose M. Serrano of the Bronx joined a group of kids from Blondell Joyner Day Care
• Lost planets on the moon
  by Dave Forest
• Kids' favorite cartoon characters such as Liz from the Magic School Bus™, Spot, and Clifford the Big Red Dog® help celebrate at the Museum's annual Halloween party
• American spirits: the Neopagan and New Age movements have now been put under the microscope of anthropology
  by Michael F. Brown
• The prehistory of housekeeping
  by Stephan Reebs
• The Museum's annual Origami Tree has welcomed the holiday season for over 30 years
• Defining the Wind: the Beaufort Scale, and How a Nineteenth-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Cryptic creatures
• Summer interns study environmental biology at the Museum
• !Tequila! A Natural and Cultural History
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Talking points
  by Peter Brown
• Jaws of life
  by Erin Espelie
• Let the germs in
  by Stephan Reebs
• The Geese of Beaver Bog
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• The importance of being constant: the fundamental things apply … as time goes by
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Seeing red
  by Daniel Smith
• Ups and downs
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Full spectrum
  by Robert Anderson
• The biomechanist went over the mountain: the best way up a hill is steeper than the best way down
  by Adam Summers