[net.mag] TOC: Scientific American, May 1984

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ARTICLES

STEEL MINIMILLS, by Jack Robert Miller				32
Plants that make steel only from scrap and then distribute their
products locally are doing well.

OCEANIC FRACTURE ZONES, by Enrico Bonatti and Kathleen Crane	40
They complicate the schematic pattern of plate tectonics by dissecting
the edges of the plates.

HOW RECEPTORS BRING PROTEINS AND PARTICLES INTO CELLS, by Alice
Dautry-Varsat and Harvey F. Lodish				52
They do so with high selectivity and are then recycled.

TURING MACHINES, by John E. Hopcroft [!!!!!]			86
A. M. Turing's conception is central to the modern computer and sets the
limits of computability.

PARASITES THAT CHANGE THE BEHAVIOR OF THEIR HOSTS, by Janice Moore 108
[Janice Moore, Janice Moore, galloping through the sward . . .]
For example, certain thorny-headed worms cause pill bugs to be more
vunerable to songbirds.

THE INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE, by Alan H. Guth and Paul J. Steinhardt 116
A region of space larger than the observable universe may have been
inflated after the big bang.

AN INDIAN HUNTERS' CAMP FOR 20,000 YEARS, by J. M. Adovasio and R. C.
Carlisle							130
Excavations in Pennsylvania bear on when men first entered the New
World.

ISLAND EPIDEMICS, by Andrew Cliff and Peter Haggett		138
The study of how measles spreads in Iceland could help to limit
epidemics in larger populations.



DEPARTMENTS

LETTERS								6

50 AND 100 YEARS AGO						11

THE AUTHORS							12

COMPUTER RECREATIONS						14
In the game called Core War hostile programs engage in a battle of bits.
[This one is fun.]

BOOKS								24
"The Great Mental Calculators: The Psychology, Methods, and Lives of
Calculating Prodigies, Past and Present", Steven B. Smith; "The Physics
and Chemistry of Color: The Fifteen Causes of Color", Kurt Nassau;
"Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just", Kenneth R.
Manning; "World Vegetables: Principles, Production and Nutritive
Values", Mas Yamaguchi.

SCIENCE AND THE CITIZEN						62
Man or Mouse? [animal experimentation issues], Cosmic Catalysis
[monopole could catalyze proton decay], Multifactorial Mortality [deaths
usually have several causes], Spot Check [sunspot data help solar
model development], Dem Bones [Napier's lead to adding machines].

THE AMATEUR SCIENTIST						148
In which heating a wire tells a lot about changes in the crystal
structure of steel.

BIBLIOGRAPHY							154