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    Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes: Mingled Signals
    The Sciences

    Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes: Mingled Signals

    By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Edward M. Hubbard

    Scale-Free Networks

    Scientists have recently discovered that various complex systems have an underlying architecture governed by shared organizing principles. This insight has important implications for a host of applications, from drug development to Internet security

    By Albert-László Barabási and Eric Bonabeau

    The Orphan Drug Backlash

    The Orphan Drug Act of 1983 was supposed to provide incentives for private industry to develop needed, but unprofitable, drugs to treat rare diseases. It has done so, but not without eliciting controversy

    By Thomas Maeder

    The Iceman Reconsidered

    Where was the Iceman's home and what was he doing at the high mountain pass where he died? Painstaking research--especially of plant remains found with the body--contradicts many of the initial speculations

    By James H. Dickson, Klaus Oeggl and Linda L. Handley

    Departments

    • Parallel Universes

    • Letters

      Letters

    • Erratum

    • Advances

      Interstellar Pelting

    • The Race Card

    • A Man, a Plan, Spam

    • Spotty Defense

    • A Digital Slice of Pi

    • Sounding Off

    • Not So Happy Together

    • A Face in the Car Crowd

    • Pulling the Lever

    • Packing 'Em On

    • Insulin from Bone Marrow

    • Seeing Red

    • Recommended

      Math's Most Wanted

    • Skeptic

      Show Me the Body

    • Anti Gravity

      Doing What Comes Unnaturally

    • 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago

      Martian Reality ; Zeppelin Dreams ; Creationist Dogma

    • Perspectives

      Misguided Missile Shield

    • In Brief

      Data Points: May 2003

    • Brief Points: May 2003

    • Puzzling Adventures

      Bounded Regrets

    • Voyages

      Desert Metropolis

    • Staking Claims

      Make Your Own Rules

    • Innovations

      X-ray Proofing

    • By the Numbers

      Reducing Crime

    • Working Knowledge

      Catch a Wave

    • Departments

      Fuzzy Logic

    • Insights

      Wired Superstrings

    • Ask the Experts

      Ask the Experts: May 2003

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