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Issue 8
Spring 2005

Letter From
the Editor

Editor in Chief
Kaspar Mossman

Managing Editor
Dula Parkinson

Editors
Michaelangelo D'agostino
Charlie Emrich
Padraig Murphy
Jess Porter
Tracy Powell
Sarita Shaevitz

Art Director
Kaspar Mossman

Assistant Art Director
Stephanie Cady

Layout Editors
Wendy Hansen
Allon Hochbaum
Bryan Jackson
Jess Porter
Tracy Powell

Proofreader
Amber Wise

Web Editor
Charlie Emrich

Printer
Sundance Press

A tour of the Golub antique microscope collection

by Angie Morey

Playing with the building blocks of biology

by Alan Moses

Serving five to life in academia

by Loren Bentley

8 In the Garden of Good and Evil
Mushroom hunters can tell the difference

10 Flies Taste Like Mammals
Vertebrates, Invertebrates encode "taste" with the same molecular logic

12 Pull My DNA
...With the world's smallest tweezers

13 Sweeping CO2 Under the Rug
The science of geologic sequestration

15 Who's Your Daddy?
Survival of the fittest means something different to frogs

17 BOINC!
Do try this at home

California counties have a love-hate relationship with GMOs

by Cheryl Hackworth

32 Meet the Chancellor
The BSR puts the Birge back in Birgeneau

41 Book Review
Race: The Reality of Human Differences

49 Letter from Ecuador
Water, water everywhere...but what's the fecal coliform count?

51 The Back Page
The shocking reason for the success of The Da Vinci Code