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April 2007
The Buyer’s Guide to Nanotech Underwired
The Buyer’s Guide to Nanotech
New technology allows nanoparticles to dramatically magnify price tags - but what else do they do? Here's your guide
by Kristin Abkemeier

Your Health This (Alcoholic and Obese) Week Health
Your Health This (Alcoholic and Obese) Week
Advice for a long life: Drink hard, cut the carbs, get migraines and don't believe everything they tell you in Texas
by Anna Gosline

Space Race: The Sequel Realpolitik
Space Race: The Sequel
The U.S. won the race to the Moon. Mars is shaping up to be a different story.
by Richard Wyllie

Do Biodegradable Bags Make Disposable Ones OK? Green & Crunchy
Do Biodegradable Bags Make Disposable Ones OK?
A San Francisco law wants zero emissions out of your shopping bag, but ignores how many go into it
by Eva Amsen

Have the Good Taste to Quit Smoking Fun with Food
Have the Good Taste to Quit Smoking
Like O.J. and toothpaste, a healthy diet may make cigarettes taste worse – despite Big Tobacco's best efforts
by Jennifer Taylor

Q&A: Marcia McNutt Portraits
Q&A: Marcia McNutt
Marcia McNutt is a superstar in a submersible research vehicle. And she wants to encourage other girls to be just like her
by Megan Mansell Williams

Your Health This (Obvi) Week Health
Your Health This (Obvi) Week
A special Your Health This Week focuses on news you thought you knew already, but needed major research dollars to be sure about
by Anna Gosline

Darwin Fish Design Contest Winner Announced… Art ‘n Shit
Darwin Fish Design Contest Winner Announced…
From an ocean of 165 submissions, five fish clambered onto the terra firma of victory – and one may get to reproduce
by Anne Casselman

Calamari colossus Creature Feature
Calamari colossus
We love all things Inky: If they have 10 arms and wrestle whales to the death, so much the better
by Valory Thatcher

The Skinny on Size Zero and the Real Dangers of BMI Health
The Skinny on Size Zero and the Real Dangers of BMI
What does it take to keep the beautiful healthy, and let the healthy be beautiful?
by Anna Gosline

Margaret Wertheim: when science and crocheting collide Pop Culture
Margaret Wertheim: when science and crocheting collide
The science writer dishes on the politics of physics and reaching the masses with crocheted coral reefs.
by Kristin Abkemeier

Your Health This (Insanely Stupid and Religious) Week Health
Your Health This (Insanely Stupid and Religious) Week
Advice for a long life: fight HIV with God, cut the Vitamin B and keep your babies out of the dorm
by Anna Gosline

The World’s Top Five Pygmy Animals Creature Feature
The World’s Top Five Pygmy Animals
It’s not their size that matters but what they do with it
by Anne Casselman

Fermented Fashion Art ‘n Shit
Fermented Fashion
The mat in the vat came back as a hat – or a dress, or a shirt
by Vanessa Gardos

Why the Metric System Doesn’t Scratch My Inch Pop Culture
Why the Metric System Doesn’t Scratch My Inch
Valory Thatcher discover just how waffly the metric system really is.
by Valory Thatcher

Your Health This (Caffeinated) Week Health
Your Health This (Caffeinated) Week
Advice for a long life: give in to coffee, beware of philosophy and stand clear of your television
by Anna Gosline

Evolution’s Bumper Sticker War Against Intelligent Design Pop Culture
Evolution’s Bumper Sticker War Against Intelligent Design
There's a growing menagerie of creatures and beliefs vying for a place on your car bumper
by Matthew Bettelheim

Your Chance to Be an Intelligent Designer Art ‘n Shit
Your Chance to Be an Intelligent Designer
Bequeath unto us the next species of Darwin fish, and it could wind up inhabiting bumpers across the nation
by Anne Casselman

Confessions of a Failed Mathlete Human Nature
Confessions of a Failed Mathlete
Why brains go boom during stressful math tests
by Megha Satyanarayana

Sharkwater: Die Hard on the High Seas Pop Culture
Sharkwater: Die Hard on the High Seas
If you think sharks are creepy, get a load of the people who hunt them
by Anna Gosline