Behavioral Science and Criminal Law
Criminal law has traditionally been based on the concepts of moral condemnation and deterrence by punishment. Does the knowledge of the behavioral sciences dictate a modification of these concepts?...
Features
Plasmas in Solids
Gaseous plasmas pervade the universe, but it is not easy to control their properties in the laboratory. The plasmas that exist in solids are friendlier and serve very well to test theoretical predictions...
The Visual Cortex of the Brain
A start toward understanding how it analyzes images on the retina can be made through studies of the responses that individual cells in the visual system of the cat give to varying patterns of light...
Architectural Acoustics
Sound is as much a part of man's man-made environment as heat or light. It can now be effectively managed, notably in rooms where music is heard, by applying the principles of acoustical physics...
Aspirin
The most widely consumed drug owes its dramatic effectiveness in reducing pain and fever to a broader function: moderating the varied defensive responses evoked in the body by disease
The Chemistry of Amphibian Metamorphosis
The evolutionary transition from fish to land animal is paralleled by the transformation of an aquatic tadpole into a frog. Essential biochemical changes accompany and implement this conquest of land...
Ancient Glass
Modern instruments of chemical and physical analysis now reveal that the ancient Egyptian and Roman glassmakers were sophisticated technicians as well as skillful artists
Quick Clay
It is a water-soaked glacial deposit that sometimes changes suddenly from a solid to a rapidly flowing liquid,causing disastrous landslides in parts of Scandinavia and Canada
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50 and 100 Years Ago: November 1963
Science and the Citizen: November 1963
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, November 1963
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- Mathematical Recreation
Mathematical Games
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The Amateur Scientist
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