Issue 7
Fall 2004

Editor in Chief
Josephine Lee

Managing Editor
Dula Parkinson

Art Director
Kaspar Mossman

Copy Editor
Paul Chang

Editors
Letty Brown
Padraig Murphy
Jess Porter
Tracy Powell
Chris Weber

Layout Editors
Paul Chang
Josephine Lee
Tracy Powell

Printer
Sundance Press

20 Life in the Small Lane

Nano is big science at Berkeley

by Daisy James

26 Skeleton Crew

Steal a glimpse inside the UC Museum of Paleontology

by Nathanael Johnson

38 The Decade After Tomorrow

Modeling global climate change at Berkeley

by Kristen DeAngelis

8 Arachnophilia
Hawaiian spiders reveal evolutionary patterns

10 Microbial Genomics
Uncovering the Earth's hidden majority

12 The Life Chip
Looking for green on the red planet

13 Ear to the Skies
Radio telescope listens for molecules, civilizations

16 Getting in the Groove
Particle physicists can play it again

45 The Health of Nations

Open-source research and the economics of life and death in the developing world

by Audrey Huang and Chris Weber

34 Acids to Ashes
What happens to our hazardous waste?

Chillin'

A Grocer's Proof

The Big Freeze

Magnify This!

25 Book Review
Tuxedo Park

18 Letter from Mount Everest
Good food, but no atmosphere

51 The Back Page
Quoth the raven: "Nevermore"