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Triumph of Discovery:
A Chronicle of Great Adventures in Science

(150 Years of Scientific American)

Edited by Scientific American

ommemorating 150 years of Scientific American, the world's premier science magazine, this book is a tour of the past century and a half of scientific innovation and discovery. Nearly fifty new essays created especially for this book by some of the world's best-known and highly respected scientific thinkers address subjects of both topical and historical interest. Illustrated in color throughout, the range of topics is broad, e.g. addiction, data superhighways, cancer, evolution, viruses, sex [my chapter], superconductivity, energy conservation, ethics of research, human diversity, gene therapy -- each article giving a brief overview of achievements, implications, and challenges, in language for the lay person.

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Table of Contents

1.	Foreword By John H. Gibbons	26.	Industrial Policy: Government-Financed Research & Development By Lester C. Thurow
2.	Introduction By John J. Moeling, Jr.	27.	Intelligence: Solving for g and Beyond By Howard Gardner and Mindy L. Kornhaber
3.	Addiction: Chemistry of Desire By Solomon H. Snyder	28.	Language: We Know More Than We Learn By David Lightfoot
4.	Aging: Not Getting Any Younger By Carl Eisdorfer	29.	Lasers: Very Intense Light By Charles H. Townes
5.	AIDS: The Pandemic Spreads By Jonathan M. Mann	30.	Machine Intelligence: Computer IQ By Patricia Churchland and Paul Churchland
6.	Animal Behavior: The Liveliest Aspect of All That Lives By Frans B. M. de Waal	31.	Memory: A Circuitous Route By Daniel L. Alkon
7.	Archaeology: Digging into the Past By Jeremy A. Sabloff	32.	Molecules: Bound for Glory By Roald Hoffmann
8.	Astronomy and Astrophysics: Observing the Universe By Virginia Trimble	33.	Nanotechnology: Snapping Atoms Together By Ralph C. Merkle
9.	Beyond the Big Bang: In the Beginning By Michael S. Turner	34.	Oceans: The Frontier Below By Sylvia A. Earle
10.	Biological Extinction: Disappearing Species By Stuart L. Pimm	35.	Organic Evolution: The Emergence of Life By Cyril Ponnamperuma
11.	The Brain: Sense from Nonsense By Richard Restak	36.	Our Origins: Becoming Human By Donald C. Johanson
12.	Cancer: An Ancient Legacy By Robert A. Weinberg	37.	Physics: Searching for Unity By Steven Weinberg
13.	Climate Change: Rhythm of the Earth By John Firor	38.	Plate Tectonics: The Restless Earth By Michael E. Wysession
14.	Cryptography: Sending Secret Messages By Martin E. Hellman	39.	Population: Growing Beyond Our Limits By Anne H. and Paul R. Ehrlich
15.	Data Superhighways: The Road to the Future By Gary T. Marx	40.	Relativity: The Theory of Gravity By Joseph Silk
16.	Dinosaurs: The Life and Death of the Dinosaurs By Kevin Padian	41.	RNA: Getting the Message By Thomas R. Cech
17.	Earthquakes: Great Shakes By Bruce A. Bolt	42.	Scientific Computing: Extending the Mind By Piet Hut and Gerald Jay Sussman
18.	Energy Conservation: Making Things Work Better By Barry Commoner	43	Sex: The Oldest Obsession By James D. Weinrich
19.	Ethics of Research: Conduct and Consequences By Dorothy Nelkin	44.	Sleep: A Busy Night By J. Allan Hobson
20.	Evolution: Darwin's Legacy By Niles Eldredge	45.	Solar System Spacecraft Exploration: The Voyage Out By Carl Sagan
21.	Extinction: A Terrible Toll By Peter H. Raven	46.	Superconductivity: Going with the Flow By Robert J. Cava
22.	Food: Feeding the World By Garrison Wilkes	47.	Surgery: Triumphs in the Surgical Theater By David C. Sabiston, Jr.
23.	Fusion Energy: Future Power By Ronald C. Davidson	48.	Technology: Imaginative Use of Machines By Lewis M. Branscomb
24.	Gene Therapy: Changing Genes in Humans By Steven A. Rosenberg	49.	Viruses: Beneath the World of Appearances By Robert C. Gallo and Howard Z. Streicher
25.	Human Diversity: Arbitrariness of Race By Luca Cavalli-Sforza	50.	Vision: Sight Seen By Torsten Wiesel

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