Issue 1
Spring 2001

Letter From
the Editor



16 Regarding Scientist X

Red-scare purges hurt many Berkeley physicists, but there really was a spy at the Radiation Lab.

by Rachel Teukolsky


24 Through the Looking Glass

An uncommon dialog between science and art, mediated by the art of Susannah Hays

by Susannah Hays


32 An Elementary Problem: Artificial Atoms, Nobel Prizes, and Your Smoke Detector

A history of berkelium, californium, and other elements discovered at Berkeley

by Delphine Farmer




4 Staring at the Sun
LBL's new HESSI satellite trains its eye on our closest star

5 Brain Sexual Dimorphism
Berkeley researchers investigate how hormones alter the size of the brain areas responsible for sexual behavior

6 Understanding Face Blindness
Neural imaging and recording techniques illuminate the causes of prosopagnosia

7 Berkeley Seismologists Tackle Volcanic Seismicity
California's Long Valley Caldera shakes things up









12 Déjà Vu: How One Scientist Experiments with Art

Berkeley grad, scientist, and artist Tania Vu takes electrophysiology out of the lab and into the gallery

by Shirley Dang


38 Let's Get Physical
Novel teaching techniques are getting Berkeley undergrads excited about—can you believe it—physics!




10 Evolution Is Not a Tautology
Alan Moses rants and Raves about how philosophy departments teach evolution all wrong

25 Book Review
Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World

41 Back Page
Quanta: Scientists behaving badly



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