Scientific American Magazine Vol 289 Issue 2

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 289, Issue 2

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Features

Rethinking the "Lesser Brain"

Long thought to be solely the brain's coordinator of body movement, the cerebellum is now known to be active during a wide variety of cognitive and perceptual activities

James M. Bower and Lawrence M. Parsons

Information in the Holographic Universe

Theoretical results about black holes suggest that the universe could be like a gigantic hologram

Jacob D. Bekenstein

Planet of the Apes

During the Miocene epoch, as many as 100 species of apes roamed throughout the Old World. New fossils suggest that the ones that gave rise to living great apes and humans evolved not in Africa but Eurasia

David R. Begun

Bioengineered Plants

Demystifying the Digital Divide

The simple binary notion of technology haves and have-nots doesn't quite compute

Mark Warschauer

Questioning the Delphic Oracle: Overview / An Intoxicating Tale

When science meets religion at this ancient Greek site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought

John R. Hale, Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, Jeffrey P. Chanton and Henry A. Spiller

Departments

Errata

Data Points: August 2003

Brief Points: August 2003

Ask the Experts: August 2003

Fuzzy Logic

Letters

Short Taps

Seeing Green

Hands of Light

Houston, You Have a Problem

Energy Crunch

What a Little Limeade Can Do

Keeper of the Objects

The Ignoble Savage

Converging on the Couch

This Is Only a Test

Fixing Dirt -- Atomic Revision -- Epidemic News

Better Red Than Dead