Issue 2294 | Magazine cover date: 9 June 2001

9 June 2001

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A matter of fact

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Drive like the wind

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Nowhere to hide

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Play's the thing

Features

Life

Say the magic words

Features

News

Follow that ant

ANT-WATCHING could soon become a lot less boring for researchers aiming to unravel their intricate social behaviour. An image-processing system unveiled at a conference on software robots in Montreal last week not only keeps tabs on 100 individual ants at a time, but can also figure out what jobs they do in the colony. Learning …

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Technology

Life in the fast lane

News

Technology

Perfect balls

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Technology

You've been tagged

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It's duck and cover for the mussel marauders

News

Mangrove monster

News

Smell thy neighbour

News

Home improvement

News

A real grilling

News

Glowing health

News

Who's the real killer?

News

Lend me your gases

News

Shoot for the Moon

News

Read all about it

News

Red ringers

News

Ferry clever

News

Blow me down

News

Is it BSE or scrapie?

News

Rulers of the skies

News

Smoking gun

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Dying gasps of a tempestuous Moon

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Total meltdown

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Troubled waters

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Ease the wheeze

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Age matters

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Security clampdown

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Cold shoulder for global snowball

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Healthy planet?

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Design and rebuild

News

Scramjet's death plunge puts solar probe on hold

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The star with a soft centre

News

The case of the killer blight

News

Too alien to handle

News

Chill out if you want the secret to global domination

News

Are you killing your neighbours when you mow the lawn?

News

Sick as a parrot

News

Fix for leaky bladders

News

Leaky plants

News

Smithsonian shake-up

News

Watch where you launch

News

Green menace

News

Smoked out

News

Against the collective

News

Opinion

Westminster diary

NORMALLY I would be the last politician to complain about lack of publicity, but when I tried to raise the issue of climate change during the general election campaign, I remained unreported. The technological options for halting the rise in greenhouse gas emissions were laid out in the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on …

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How I cut myself down to size

Opinion

Whose roads are they anyway?

Opinion

Puppet or master?

Opinion

Features

A matter of fact

"Facts, not opinons." A stern, didactic slogan. You can picture it inscribed in pokerwork or embroidery on a wall plaque in the drawing room of a headmistressy great aunt. In reality you can see it carved into the stone lintel of a Victorian building in London's Southwark Street, just a few steps from the Thames. …

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Drive like the wind

Features

Nowhere to hide

Features

Play's the thing

Features

Life

Say the magic words

Features

A Mission to Explain

Mission Jupiter by Daniel Fischer, Copernicus/ Springer-Verlag, $32, ISBN 0387987649 GALILEO—the spacecraft, not the man—has shown us space exploration in all its phases, from the frustrating to the rewarding. Since late 1995 it has sent us 15,000 astonishingly detailed images gleaned from its orbit round Jupiter. The craft has dropped a probe into the gas …

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Caroline Pond

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And the winner is...

Books & Arts

He did everything

Books & Arts

Would you believe it?

Books & Arts

It's only a paper June

Books & Arts

Monica Grady

Books & Arts

Alfred Russel Wallace: A life by Peter Raby (2001)

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Feedback

EACH YEAR around this time Feedback's favourite government report appears—the Home and Leisure Accident Surveillance System report from Britain's Department of Trade and Industry. It gives figures for accidents reported by people admitted to a sample group of British hospitals and then gives extrapolated estimates for the country as a whole. First the bad news …

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This week's magazine

9 June 2001

On the cover

A matter of fact

Drive like the wind

Nowhere to hide

Play's the thing

Life

Say the magic words

Table of contents

News

Follow that ant

Technology

Life in the fast lane

Technology

Perfect balls

Technology

You've been tagged

It's duck and cover for the mussel marauders

Mangrove monster

Smell thy neighbour

Home improvement

A real grilling

Glowing health

Who's the real killer?

Lend me your gases

Shoot for the Moon

Read all about it

Red ringers

Ferry clever

Blow me down

Is it BSE or scrapie?

Rulers of the skies

Smoking gun

Dying gasps of a tempestuous Moon

Total meltdown

Troubled waters

Ease the wheeze

Age matters

Security clampdown

Cold shoulder for global snowball

Healthy planet?

Design and rebuild

Scramjet's death plunge puts solar probe on hold

The star with a soft centre

The case of the killer blight

Too alien to handle

Chill out if you want the secret to global domination

Are you killing your neighbours when you mow the lawn?

Sick as a parrot

Fix for leaky bladders

Leaky plants

Smithsonian shake-up

Watch where you launch

Green menace

Smoked out

Against the collective

Opinion

Westminster diary

How I cut myself down to size

Whose roads are they anyway?

Puppet or master?

Features

A matter of fact

Drive like the wind

Nowhere to hide

Play's the thing

Life

Say the magic words

More

A Mission to Explain

Caroline Pond

And the winner is...

He did everything

Would you believe it?

It's only a paper June

Monica Grady

Alfred Russel Wallace: A life by Peter Raby (2001)

Regulars

Feedback