ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) (06/29/84)
NOTE: This may the last TOC that I will post. I invite someone else to take over posting Science 84 and Abacus TOCs. TOC, Science 84, July/August issue ARTICLES "Aspartame: Some Bitter with the Sweet?" A short article on the question of how safe this artificial sweetener is (the FDA and the makers say it is safe for normal people) "New Realism" [cover story] Or, how computer scientists are forging reality. In other words, new developments in computer graphics. Lots of illustrations. At least one person who has posted to Usenet is mentioned. As is typical for Science 84, medium-technical level, no math. "The Producer" Booker T. Whatley has a novel strategy for the small farmer. "Molly-Be-Damned" About the mining and uses of molybdenum. "The La Crosse File" The death of a little girl in Dresbach, MN, touched off a search for a killer virus (encephalitis) and its carrier (a mosquito, which turns out to be finding a new home in scrap automotive tires). "Very Large Astronomy" Using global networks of radio telescopes, astronomers are stalking some of the strangest, most violent beasts in the universe. "The Little Engine that Might Not" Magnetically levitated trains - the cleanest, smoothest, fastest ever invented. But can anybody afford them? DEPARTMENTS "Currents" (short articles) Testing a chemical that prevents fuel fires when planes crash; bird color distributions and evolution; why copper utensils affect eggs; physicist analyzes the end of the universe; migraines may cause brain damage, too; light pollution in the night sky (picture); some turtles, like salmon, may find home by smell; zero-g experiments. "Advice and Dissent" (guest editorial and letters) "Replace MAD with Mutual Assured Survival" - Ben Bova, writing in favor of the proposed antimissile satellites Computer literacy vs worship; infanticide; abortion. Alan P. Lightman on the idea that "a small country ... should be destroyed with nuclear weapons ... every 20 years, so that the carnage of nuclear destruction stays fresh in our minds" ! "Mysteries" How do plants sense gravity? "Crosscurrents" (more short articles) On the findings of the Canadian Centre [sic] for Investigation and Prevention of Torture; the possibility of beans that don't cause flatulence; directly comparing DNA to test species for distinctness; high-tech college pranks; chorionic villus biopsy, an alternative to amniocentesis. "Sports" The S-stroke: how Olympic swimmers swim. "Jake's Page" Instead of a column, a science crossword. Answers next issue. Book review "The Apocalyptics": Edith Efron surveys the environmental movement of the last 20 years as it relates to environmental carcinogens and their regulation. ...Efron's conclusion is that the apocalyptic environmental movement ... has little or no scientific foundation. Reviewed by Bruce Ames, Chairman, Biochem., UCBerkeley. NOTABLE ADVERTISEMENT An advertising supplement contains a full-length article, "Taking Charge of Your Health", by Norman Cousins. The topic is the relationship between the mind and the ill or healthy body: anxiety, attitudes, expectations. SCIENCE 84 (the title changes each year) is published 10 times a year by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, "to bridge the distance between science and citizen".
so@uiucdcs.UUCP (07/03/84)
#R:dciem:-95600:uiucdcs:45100001:000:1 uiucdcs!so Jul 3 15:42:00 1984