Issue 3
Fall 2002

Editor in Chief
Eran Karmon

Managing Editor
Temina Madon

Current Briefs Editor
Jane McGonigal

Content Editor
Jessica Palmer

Copy Editor
Donna Sy

Editors
Joel Kamnitzer
Colin McCormick
Teddy Varno

Art Director
Una Ren

Art
Aaron Golub
Jessica Palmer

Webmaster
Tony Wilson

Special Thanks
Evelyn Strauss

Printer
UC Press

12 Cuts Like a Knife

Doctors perfect a technique for curing multiple-tumor brain cancer without a single incision

by Aubrey Lau

16 The Sky's the Limit

Look! Up in the air! It's a bird, it's a plane! Holy Cow, it's a Nikon dangling on the end of a kite string!

by Temina Madon

22 Constructing Coral

A pile of concrete and some netting can mean the difference betwee a living ocean and an underwater rubble field.

by Sneha Desai

7 Splitting Heads
When it comes to brain surgery, there's no such thing as too many cooks

8 Micro Machines
Diagnosing tiny devices is tougher than it looks

9 Walk Like a Man
When did our ancestors first stand up for themselves?

 

26 Darwin or Dogma?

Berkeley's suprising place in the evolution vs. creationism debate

by Jessica Palmer

32 Back to the Future
Does time really march on or are we just moving forward into the past?

Hawaii's Spiders

Itsy-Bitsy Transistors

Crystal Path for Photons

Modeling the Universe's Birth

Babies Know What's Up

11 Book Review: Sexual Selections
Evolution's feminist side

6 Biotech Beat
High points of the Bay Area biotech boom

21 Weird Science
Phoebe the Photon conquers all

51 The Back Page - Inside Out with Clifford Stoll
How to drink a beer without anything to put it in

35 Quanta
(heard on campus)