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Issue 2
Spring 2002

Editor in Chief
Eran Karmon

Managing Editor
Temina Madon

Art Director
Una Ren

Content Editor
Jessica Palmer

Current Briefs Editor
Heidi Ledford

Copy Editor
Donna Sy

Editors
Joel Kamnitzer
Colin McCormick
Jane McGonigal
Teddy Varno

Layout Editors
Aaron Golub
Dan Handwerker
Jinjer Larson
Merek Siu

Webmaster
Tony Wilson

Special Thanks
David Perlman
Charles Petit

Printer
Fricke-Parks, Inc.

Hunting down the elusive solar neutrino

by Aaron Pierce

Training artists to bring complex concepts into living color

by Jessica Palmer and Una Ren

7 Telling Stories
Why do autistic children have trouble describing emotions?

8 Correcting Keratoconus
Modeling the cornea's topography may lead to improved contact lenses

9 Mapping the Net
Even in cyberspace, geography matters

10 Tiny OS
Radio telescope listens for molecules, civilizations

Why more and more Berkeley professors are splitting time between the lab and the boardroom.

by Emily Singer

37 Life: Wanted Dead or Alive
Is a goldfish alive? What about a tub of margarine? Alan Moses sorts it out.

17 Book Review: On Her Own Terms
Annie Alexander and the UC Museums

6 Biotech Beat
What's happening in Bay Area biotech

27 Weird Science
Ken and Barbie meet Godzilla

45 The Back Page
Big ole' naked guy on the South Pole!

40 Quanta
(heard on campus)