Issue 8
Season 2005

Letter From
the Editor



26 Zoom with a View

A tour of the Golub antique microscope collection

by Angie Morey


34 Intelligent Design

Playing with the building blocks of biology

by Alan Moses


42 Prisoners of the Ivory Tower

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

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

17 BOINC!
Do try this at home









19 Strange Fruit

California counties have a love-hate relationship with GMOs

by Cheryl Hackworth


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


Kapow!
Bold Vision
Fat is Beautiful
Like a Rock




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



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