Issue 10
Spring 2006

Editor in Chief
Jessica Porter

Managing Editor
Wes Marner

Art Director
Jack Lin

Copy Editor
Tai Po Ping

Editors
Meredith Carpenter
Michelangelo D'Agostino
Charlie Emrich
Wendy Hansen
Jacqueline Chretien
Charlie Koven

Chief Layout Editor
Andrew DeMond

Layout Editors
Charlie Emrich
Wendy Hansen
Jessica Porter
Kathryn Quanstrom

Web Editor
Jesse Dill

Printer
Sundance Press

26 Getting Back To Nature

Revisiting the 1914 survey of California wildlife

by Erica Spotswood

31 In the matter of Berkeley v. Berkeley

Cal profs on both sides of the evolution debate

by Michelangelo D'Agostino

36 IP: Ideas for Purchase?

Gatorade's legal legacy

by Heidi Ledford

40 Science and Sustainable Development

Green-lighting the third world

by Kevin Moore

10 Like Beer for Chocolate
The origins of cacao

12 A Star is Born
Turbulence in the night sky

14 Mammoth Rocks
The oldest scratching post around

16 United We Stand
The origins of Multicellular Animals

18 H2ydropower
Will hydrogen someday replace gasoline?

20 Earthquake Prediction
What if you could see 30 seconds into the future?

22 Seeing Chemistry
An ultrafast peek into your retina

24 Faster, Better, Smaller
One of the last moving parts in your computer is the hard drive

43 Congress 101

Teaching scientists the language of policymakers

by Temina Madon

48 Field Trip!
Middle Schoolers learn about biodiversity in the fields of Richmond and beyond

Bull's-Eye!

Firewalk With Me

Richter Scale

Outbreak

6 We've just turned 10!
Following up on some of our favorite stories

49 Quanta
Heard on Campus

50 Book Review
The Omnivore's Dilemma

51 Who Knew?
The legend of the killer penny