Natural History

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Articles in Nov 2006 issue of Natural History

• Rain stalls
  by Stephan Reebs
• Mate swap
  by Leo Salas
• The ritual world of Pocahontas: as Jamestown celebrates its 400th anniversary, the dramatic rescue of John Smith turns out to have been part of an elaborate piece of statecraft, misunderstood by the English colonists
  by Frederic W. Gleach
• Young Naturalist Awards: a research-based essay contest for students in grades 7-12 to promote participation and communication in science
• Pipefish baby boom
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Sexy necks
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Sex among the flowers: a bouquet of botanical breakthroughs is shedding light on the exuberant evolution of the earliest flowering plants and their mysterious sexual history
  by William E. Friedman
• Museum events: American Museum of Natural History
• Bacteria strike gold
  by Graciela Flores
• Matters of size: from bacteria to blue whales, organisms live in worlds defined by their size. The implications for movement, metabolism, and even life span are surprisingly diverse
  by John Tyler Bonner
• People at the AMNH
• Ocean commotion
  by Rebecca Kessler
• Generation: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• It's about time
  by Dolly Setton
• Last stands: Pristine patches of a northeastern forest are threatened by insects and disease
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• Mercury rising
  by Graciela Flores
• Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• True grit
  by Stephan Reebs
• The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Neanderthals get smarter
  by Stephan Reebs
• Earthly treasure
  by Robert Anderson
• Turning the tables
  by Erin Espelie
• Changing times
  by Peter Brown
• City serenity
  by Stephan Reebs
• The sky in November
  by Joe Rao
• Spring back
  by Rebecca Kessler
• Crikey!
  by Paul Dale Roberts
• Delusions of space enthusiasts: sometimes innovation gets interrupted
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Name games: getting the family surname on that special object in the sky is a toss of the dice—unless your name is Minkowski
  by Charles Liu
• Breakdown in the desert
  by Stephan Reebs
• Do biologists count?
  by Guy Ottewell
• Times of our lives: gravity, along with dark energy, plays a key role in the timing of our cosmic appearance and sets strict limits on the span of life anywhere in the universe
  by Robert L. Jaffe
• The glory of gold: exhibition opens November 18