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Features
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To accommodate a fast-growing New York City, John Randel, Jr., began to lay out the city’s streets in 1808—an impressive endeavor that holds lessons for today’s information infrastructure
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Marguerite Holloway
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Feb 15, 2013 |
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Features
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The Italian researcher faced prejudice and adversity as a woman and as a Jew, but went on to elucidate a growth factor essential to the survival of nerve cells
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Marguerite Holloway
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Dec 30, 2012 |
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Scientific American Magazine
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Sasquatch is just a legend, right? According to the evidence, maybe not, argues Jeffrey Meldrum--a position he holds despite ostracism from his fellow anthropologists and university colleagues
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Marguerite Holloway
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Nov 19, 2007 |
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Scientific American Magazine
Lene Vestergaard Hau made headlines by slowing light to below highway speed. Now the ringmaster of light can stop it, extinguish it and revive it—and thereby give quantum information a new look
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Marguerite Holloway
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Aug 19, 2007 |
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Scientific American Magazine
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Thomas E. Starzl pioneered organ transplantation with antirejection drugs--an approach he hopes to end through a phenomenon called microchimerism
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Marguerite Holloway
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Jan 14, 2007
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Scientific American Magazine
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Ingredients for environmental awakening
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Marguerite Holloway
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Apr 23, 2006
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Scientific American Magazine
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Lisa Randall's thinking on higher dimensions, warped space and membranes catalyzed ideas in cosmology and physics. It might even unify all four forces of nature
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Marguerite Holloway
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Sep 26, 2005 |
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Scientific American Magazine
| Environment
Questioning the term after a bird's return
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Marguerite Holloway
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Aug 8, 2005
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Features
| Environment
Questioning the term after a bird's return
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Marguerite Holloway
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Aug 8, 2005
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Scientific American Magazine
Writing and humanities studies produce better physicians, Rita Charon argues, because doctors learn to coax hidden information from patients' complaints
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Marguerite Holloway
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Apr 25, 2005