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31 July 2004

Issue 2458

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Two of our icebergs are missing

Features
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They know what you want

Features
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Private thoughts, public property

Features
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Power tower

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Why we do what we do

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Behind the mask

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Strings with a twist

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Table of contents

News

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Technology

Grit-blasting threatens aircraft

SEVERAL versions of the Boeing 737 aircraft may be susceptible to critical damage caused by incorrect maintenance procedures, according to US aircraft safety inspectors. The damage could cause pilots to lose control of their aircraft. The 737 is the world's most popular passenger jet. There are almost 5000 in service, and they dominate the fleets …

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

Shape-shifting aerial gets the best reception

News

Technology

Paradox that unmasks rabbi's literary lie

News

Technology

Games get more touchy-feely

News

Technology

Sandpit for viruses

News

Better bug killer

News

High cry of a ground squirrel

News

Acupuncture points to post-op comfort

News

Cancer survival time unaffected by state of mind

News

Sunburnt to extinction

News

A yawning ape is a perceptive ape

News

Technology

A pump to get the heart racing

News

Earth's gravity affected by Amazon water level

News

Acoustic bulges make solar spikes

News

Lawsuit could force limits on US carbon emissions

News

Primitive fish hit dry land to bask in the sun

News

Why athletes get injured

News

It's the brain not the body that hits the wall

News

Rip-off kalashnikov clash

News

Holey let-down

News

Divorce in space

News

Return of the Iraqi wetlands

News

Arsenic plan fails

News

Noah's freezer

News

Humans

Teens on sex

News

60 Seconds

News

To whale, or not to whale?

News

Captive rhinos killed by overdose of iron

News

Renegade gene can aid and abet spread of cancer

News

Soundbites

News

Twin tower fallout an all-time high

News

Space station gets lift with promise of extra crew

News

Mercury space probe raring to go

News

Dual asteroid strike hits comet theory

News

Forest dwellers are its best protectors

News

Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

IT ALL seemed straightforward two decades ago when the US government was designing a permanent repository for high-level nuclear waste. It picked Yucca Mountain, a fairly remote desert site in the state of Nevada. Sure, there was a lot of geology and hydrology and seismic work to do to be certain the waste would not …

Opinion

Riddle of the bones

Opinion

Reality bites

Opinion

No-brainer

Opinion

Features

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Two of our icebergs are missing

William Hodges was frustrated. The young artist had been hired to accompany James Cook on his second voyage of discovery. Cook's task was to find the elusive great southern continent-if it existed. And if itdidn't.theadmiralty was confidentthat he would find other new lands and peoples. Hodges's job was to record these new worlds for posterity, …

Features

They know what you want

Features

Private thoughts, public property

Features

Power tower

Features

Why we do what we do

Features

Behind the mask

Features

Strings with a twist

Features

More

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Open minds

The Success of Open Source by Steven Weber, Harvard University Press, £19.95/$29.95, ISBN 0674012925 Reviewed by Barry Fox THE computer industry has never been good at explaining what it does, and why. Political scientist Steven Weber takes up the challenge to explain what is meant by "open source" software, and how Linux grew out of …

Books & Arts

Masters of space-time

Books & Arts

Tangled wormholes

Books & Arts

Bright eyes

Books & Arts

Spiritual bird

Books & Arts

Class lines

Books & Arts

The word coprophagy

Books & Arts

Once we were alchemists

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

READER Tony Graham has discovered an interesting piece of news in Rapport, the magazine for Peugeot owners. An article entitled "Hollywood goes green" announces: "The film The Day After Tomorrow, starring Emmy Rossum, produced enough CO 2 gas during its production to drive 3000 cars for a year." Sadly, many readers of Rapport will be …

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