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Rapturous Sociability--Armageddon Avoided--The Allure of Venus
October 2007 issue
Cyclic Universe--World of Words--Nuclear Terror
September 2007 issue
Cosmic Questions--Baboon Melodrama--Cold Coors
August 2007 issue
Justifying Mistakes--Getting Better--Tracking the Anasazi
July 2007 issue
Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, And The Struggle For The Soul Of Science
June 2007 issue
The Interplay of Art and Science
May 2007 issue
In two new books, University of Oxford art historian Martin Kemp explores, often brilliantly, the interplay of art and science
Is Beauty Truth and Truth Beauty?
April 2007 issue
Why Beauty Is Truth looks at how Keats's famous line applies to math and science
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A New Journey into Hofstadter's Mind
March 2007 issue
In I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas R. Hofstadter explores the Gödelian vortex of the conscious mind
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Why Aren't More Women Physicists?
February 2007 issue
La Dame d'Esprit and Out of the Shadows explore why more women do not become scientists

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