Essays by Isaac Asimov From The Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Copyright © 1995 by Edward Seiler and Richard Hatcher. All rights reserved.
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Original Title: Earth's Ozone Layer Under Freon Siege (V3)
Subject: the severe danger from using CFC chemicals
First Published In: 21-Nov-86
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Original Title: The Race for the Moon's Resources (V26)
Subject: the need to join the Soviets in Moon colonization; using the Moon's resources
First Published In: 28-Nov-86
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Original Title: Nobel Prize Is Often a Delayed Reward (V8,9)
Subject: the reason for Nobel prize delays
First Published In: 5-Dec-86
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Original Title: The Case of the Antarctic Dinosaur (V14)
Subject: plate movements explain fossils
First Published In: 12-Dec-86
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Original Title: Cholesterol's Essential to Animal Life (V-A11)
Subject: cholesterol happens to be essential to animal life
First Published In: 19-Dec-86
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Original Title: Scientists at Work Taming Antimatter (V26)
Subject: maintaining antimatter existence
First Published In: 26-Dec-86
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Original Title: The Monster That Gulps Whole Stars (V2)
Subject: Seyfert galaxies; enormous black holes
First Published In: 9-Jan-87
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Original Title: Stopping the Population Growth Rate (V3)
Subject: calculating the limits to growth
First Published In: 6-Feb-87
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Original Title: Astronomers and Their Far-out Plans (V5)
Subject: a telescope probe going 90 billion miles out
First Published In: 13-Feb-87
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Original Title: Meet Our Cousin the Coelacanth (V1,18)
Subject: the earliest animals to leave the water
First Published In: 13-Mar-87
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Original Title: Nuclear Fusion at Room Temperature
Subject: fusion at low temperature
First Published In: 3-Apr-87
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Original Title: Supernovas Provide Look at the Galaxy (V7)
Subject: the closest supernova in over 300 years
First Published In: 21-May-87
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Subject: discovery of a luminous arc that partially encircled a galaxy
First Published In: 5-Jun-87
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Original Title: A Safe Way to Bury Our Nuclear Wastes (V6)
Subject: salt mines are a safe for destination nuclear waste
First Published In: 19-Jun-87
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Original Title: Meteorites Yield Meaty Clues to Past (V6)
Subject: meteorite hunting on Antarctica
First Published In: 17-Jul-87
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Original Title: The Galaxies Are On a Collision Course (V3)
Subject: what would happen if our galaxy collided with another
First Published In: 24-Jul-87
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Original Title: How Old Is Our Universe Anyway? (V5)
Subject: estimating the age of the universe
First Published In: 31-Jul-87
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Original Title: Quest for Fuel an Ongoing Objective (V12)
Subject: hydrogen instead of fossil fuels
First Published In: 7-Aug-87
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Original Title: Was the Vinland Map Authentic of Forged? (V5)
Subject: a Viking map shows Greenland accurately
First Published In: 14-Aug-87
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Original Title: Search Must Continue for a 10th Planet (V5)
Subject: the search for a tenth planet
First Published In: 21-Aug-87
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Original Title: Supernova Sheds Light on Unknown (V9)
Subject: backlighting from the 1987 supernova
First Published In: 4-Sep-87
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Original Title: Space Has the Earth's Energy Answers (V7)
Subject: collecting solar energy with satellites
First Published In: 18-Sep-87
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Original Title: Moon Base May Unify Grand Theories (V12)
Subject: detecting the decay of protons on the Moon
First Published In: 9-Oct-87
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Original Title: How a Girl's Best Friend Originated (V4)
Subject: producing a diamond film
First Published In: 16-Oct-87
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Original Title: The Long and Short of Man's History (V30)
Subject: dating early hominids to 5 million years ago
First Published In: 23-Oct-87
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Original Title: The Complex Structure of Enzymes (V17)
Subject: new synthetic enzymes
First Published In: 6-Nov-87
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Original Title: Tree Rings Serve as Natural Calendars (V4,5)
Subject: tree rings serve as natural calendars
First Published In: 13-Nov-87
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Original Title: Helium - Basic Element Is Irreplaceable (V3)
Subject: we are needlessly losing helium
First Published In: 20-Nov-87
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Original Title: Siberian Explosion: Meteor or Mystery? (V-A10)
Subject: was the Tunguska event a comet or asteroid?
First Published In: 27-Nov-87
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Original Title: Distant Moons May Supply Gasoline (V4,5)
Subject: Saturn's Titan and Neptune's Triton may have gasoline oceans
First Published In: 4-Dec-87
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Original Title: Shedding Light on a Galactic Mystery (V2)
Subject: gravitational lenses and the missing mass
First Published In: 11-Dec-87
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Original Title: Ending Without a Bang or a Whimper (V-A2)
Subject: a description of the final stages of the Sun's life
First Published In: 18-Dec-87
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Original Title: In Evolution, Smaller May Be Better (V18)
Subject: the size of life forms, past and present
First Published In: 25-Dec-87
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Original Title: As the World Turns: Moon Doesn't Sync (V6)
Subject: adjusting timekeeping for the slowing effect of tides
First Published In: 22-Jan-88
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Original Title: Most Basic Particles of the Universe (V27)
Subject: delving into the atom
First Published In: 12-Feb-88
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Original Title: Science Attacking Helium's 'Nobility' (V2)
Subject: helium's reluctance to combine
First Published In: 11-Mar-88
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Original Title: Studying the Matter of Antimatter (V7)
Subject: recognizing antimatter by antineutrinos
First Published In: 18-Mar-88
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Original Title: Is There Anyone Home Out There? (V2)
Subject: conditions necessary for a planet to support life
First Published In: 25-Mar-88
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Original Title: Modern Strides in Ancient Diamonds (V5)
Subject: low pressure formation of diamond
First Published In: 8-Apr-88
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Original Title: When Places Get Lost in the World (V4)
Subject: finding Columbus's San Salvador
First Published In: 15-Apr-88
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Original Title: Mathematicians Look For a Piece of Pi (V3)
Subject: calculating pi to increased precision
First Published In: 6-May-88
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Original Title: Undivided Attention to the First Cell
Subject: tracing the earliest bacteria
First Published In: 13-May-88
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Original Title: Historic Clues Found Written in the Trees (V4-5)
Subject: tree rings date the eruption of the island of Thera to 1628 BC
First Published In: 20-May-88
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Original Title: Monotremes : Oddest of Odd Animals (V11)
Subject: surprising duckbill platypus abilities
First Published In: 10-Jun-88
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Original Title: Superconductivity and the 'Green Twig' (V6)
Subject: recipe for superconductivity
First Published In: 17-Jun-88
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Original Title: Experiment Confirm's Kekule's Dream (V8)
Subject: the benzene ring is visually verified by a scanning tunneling electron microscope
First Published In: 16-Sep-88
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Original Title: Beginnings of Life Are Still a Puzzle (V4,5)
Subject: theories on origin of life on Earth
First Published In: 30-Sep-88
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Original Title: The Next Goal in Outer Space - Mars (V4,5)
Subject: we need to build a space station next
First Published In: 7-Oct-88
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Original Title: Hell on Earth 65 Million Years Ago (V7)
Subject: mass extinction seems too extreme
First Published In: 11-Nov-88
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Original Title: This Astronomer Was Right All Along (V8)
Subject: a theory limiting the size of stars is revived
First Published In: 18-Nov-88
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Original Title: What's Going On Way Out There? (V7)
Subject: estimates of the cometary Oort cloud
First Published In: 25-Nov-88
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Original Title: Dwarf Stars: Back to the Drawing Board (V3,4)
Subject: the mystery of white dwarf star varieties
First Published In: 16-Dec-88
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Original Title: The Year of the Greenhouse Effect (V4)
Subject: clear evidence of the greenhouse effect
First Published In: 26-Dec-88
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Original Title: Trying to Catch the Elusive Gravity Wave (V5,13)
Subject: gravitational wave detection
First Published In: 17-Feb-89
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Original Title: DNA's Double Helix a Theory - Until Now (V3,7)
Subject: advances in viewing instruments; scanning tunneling electron microscopes
First Published In: 24-Feb-89
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Original Title: Combatting U.S. Scientific Illiteracy (V8)
Subject: American students are scientifically illiterate
First Published In: 31-Mar-89
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Original Title: Theory Has Impact on Dinosaur Doom (V8)
Subject: evidence for impact theory of extinction
First Published In: 14-Apr-89
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Original Title: Earth's 500,000 Mile Near Miss (V4)
Subject: we need protection from a meteor strike
First Published In: 12-May-89
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Original Title: Closing In on the Mystery of Chiron (V5)
Subject: Chiron, a comet or asteroid past Saturn
First Published In: 19-May-89
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Original Title: The Advantages of Underground Living (V2,14)
Subject: living underground has many advantages
First Published In: 2-Jun-89
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Original Title: Cold Fusion: Science Fiction or Reality (V10,11)
Subject: cold fusion, like Martian canals, N-rays, and polywater, seems dubious
First Published In: 9-Jun-89
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Original Title: Should Home Robot Be Like a Person? (V4)
Subject: household robots should be shaped like humans
First Published In: 16-Jun-89
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Original Title: Moon Holds Clues to Earth's Distant Past (V3,9)
Subject: the Moon's surface tells solar system history
First Published In: 21-Jul-89
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Original Title: Life in Mid-Pangaea: There Wasn't Any (V4)
Subject: Pangaea had temperature extremes
First Published In: 4-Aug-89
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Original Title: Fundamental Particles of Universe (V9)
Subject: a list of fundamental particles
First Published In: 15-Sep-89
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Original Title: The Sky is Falling - but Don't Wait Up (V4,14)
Subject: Mars's satellite Phobos grows closer to Mars
First Published In: 22-Sep-89
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Original Title: Hot Fusion Heats Up as Hot News Topic (V9)
Subject: fusion achieved by colliding deuterium compounds may hold promise
First Published In: 6-Oct-89
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Subject: galactic clusters at great distance and age
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: analysis of meteorites shows a complex origin
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: man and Neanderthals' coexistence
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: causes of bipedal evolution
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: the question of the earliest tool usage
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: the case for Neanderthals' speech
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: tracing back early languages
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: uses of fire by man's ancestors
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: using X-rays for material analysis
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: easier superconductivity
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: larger particle accelerators
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: types of neutrinos
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: fluids with strange properties
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: debate on the supercollider
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: measuring ultrashort events
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: free radicals and aging
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: the need for tritium and the lack of a supply of it
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: the dangers of altered germs
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: detecting bacteria with light
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: human genome (DNA) mapping
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: fine resolution inscription
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: studies on human internal rhythms
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: Earth's moving plates and poles
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: perturbations in Earth's spinning
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: San Andreas fault earthquakes
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: Earth's internal temperature
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: earlier than expected land life
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: how parts of cells came together
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: how amino acids figure in the mystery of dinosaur extinction
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: the reptile-bird transitional form
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: a later version of the reptile-bird
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: how the huge pterosaurs could fly
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: insects have thrived for millions of years
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: why turtles cross the Atlantic Ocean
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: how nitrogen is made available for plants
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: the need to keep the Antarctic unpolluted
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: plate movements explain recent ice ages
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: plate tectonics is unique to Earth
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: a close study of Halley's comet yields answers and questions
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: the birth and death of comets
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: polymers found in Halley's comet
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: comparing the geology of Venus and Earth
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: bouncing signals off Titan's surface
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: measuring the Sun's size by an eclipse
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: Pioneer 10, solar wind, and gravity waves
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: the variability of Neptune's satellite Nereid
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: tracking solar flares from tree rings
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: watching comets come close to the Sun
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: the debate about calling Pluto a planet
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: information from eclipsing of planets
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: the first brown dwarf planet is reported
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: meteorites from Mars in Antarctica
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: debris in space is a serious danger
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: evidence that planets are more likely
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: new half-life measures of neutrons support the big-bang theory
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: confirmation of relativity by arrival time of neutrinos
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: neutrinos confirm supernova theory
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: determining the age of universe by three methods
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: confirmation that Cygnus X-1 is a black hole
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Subject: globular clusters help estimate distance
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: the search for brown dwarf objects
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: watching a galaxy in formation
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Subject: estimating distance by galaxies' spectra
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Subject: the pulsar left from the 1987 supernova
First Published In: 1987-1989
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Subject: the route of Voyager 2 far out in space
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Subject: the anthropic principle and the existence of the universe
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Subject: red shifts of distant quasars 17 billion light years away
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Subject: maps have 19 million stars; a fraction of the visible stars
First Published In: 17-Nov-89
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Original Title: Power of Proteins, The (w/Janet)
Subject: folding is part of the secret of the properties of proteins
First Published In: 1990-1992
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Subject: dinosaur bone protein is 150 million years old
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Subject: ribosomal RNA for life form classification
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Subject: the Coelacanth was thought to be extinct but is living still
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Subject: tracing the first land animals
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Subject: the egg was important for land animals
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Subject: teeth as fossils last long and tell much
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Subject: bone is surprisingly complex
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Subject: having a large body can be both good and bad
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Subject: small arms may indicate only a scavenger
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Subject: methods of dinosaur locomotion
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Subject: evidence for the most recent mass extinction
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Subject: a link showing land animals' return to water
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Subject: a new understanding of the Dodo bird
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Subject: what came first in the origin of life
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Subject: some species of reptiles of the beakhead order survive
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Subject: correcting the details of evolution
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Subject: the total mass of ants exceeds that of all other animals combined
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Subject: the platypus is an animal that is difficult to categorize
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Subject: the minotaur and the unicorn of myth may have been an aurochs
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Subject: saving a horse from extinction by isolation
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Subject: comparing animal brains that are unlike ours
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Subject: the need to save the Aye-Aye lemur from extinction
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Subject: genetic and protein studies say chimpanzee is man's closest relative
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Subject: diet favored H. habilis over A. robustus
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Subject: a dating method that uses protein in egg shells
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Subject: tracing early man's (Aborigines') history
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Subject: cooperation throughout the animal world
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Subject: possible reasons for right-handedness
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Subject: genetic engineering can cure diseases
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Subject: theories about retroviruses and oncogenes
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Subject: microbes are more helpful than we used to think
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Subject: the danger of destroying variety
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Subject: dynamic inner layers of the Earth
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Subject: uranium breakdown sets the age of the oldest rocks at 4 billion years
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Subject: revising ice age time by carbon 14 dating
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Subject: ocean currents, temperature, and pollution
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Subject: air chemistry, flow, and ozone depletion
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Subject: Lake Baikal in Siberia is the deepest lake at 5,713 ft deep
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Subject: ice age melting may have resulted in a huge flood
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Subject: Moon rocks found on Antarctica
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Subject: the mysteries of what we see on planets and their satellites
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Subject: Mercury's thin sodium and potassium atmosphere
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Subject: new information about Venus from the Pioneer 12 spacecraft
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Subject: Trojan (Lagrangian) locations for asteroids
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Subject: reasons to colonize Mars
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Subject: Saturn's rings are probably transient phenomena
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Subject: what's in the atmosphere of Saturn's satellite Titan
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Subject: some names for Neptune's satellites seem poorly chosen
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Subject: surprising features of Neptune's satellite Triton
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Subject: Saturn's Great White Spot
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Subject: discoveries of more planetary satellites
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Subject: Chiron and ideas about short-lived comets
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Subject: comets, asteroids, and small outer planets
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Subject: the Sun's output, sunspots, flares, and corona
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Subject: solar wind and particles produced in the Sun
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Subject: living in space; danger from rain of particles
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Subject: the outer belt of icy planets and comets
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Subject: dealing with the close asteroids
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Subject: finding asteroids, both close and curious
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Subject: repeating an entreaty for an asteroid sentinel
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Subject: the origin of materials falling onto the Earth
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Subject: the origin of dust in space around the Earth
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Subject: making use of the asteroids near us
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Subject: experimental data proven to be wrong
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Subject: the loss of the Nile river delta may be catastrophic
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Subject: the continual problem of garbage, on Earth and above it
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Subject: human parasites are still a problem
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Subject: Nessie and other human creations
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Subject: acoustic and electronic types of noise
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Subject: problems of using geothermal energy
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Subject: using silicon in solar cells to break up water
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Subject: molecular replication without need of enzymes
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Subject: characteristics of various buckyballs
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Subject: bacteria used for extraction of metals
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Subject: a description of New York's Central Park
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Subject: bioengineering plants and saving biodiversity
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Subject: the use of plants for food, medicine, and more
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Subject: advances in trade help world cooperation
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Subject: computer chess vs. human intelligence
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Subject: a description of computer hardware and bugs
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Subject: small robots for specialized tasks
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Subject: the latest advances in jobs that robots do for us
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Subject: music is "the art of sound in time" and has pleasant benefits
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Subject: atoms, photons, neutrinos, and quarks
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Subject: elementary particles and the top quark
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Subject: firing electrons into a proton to see quarks inside
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Subject: high density quark stars may throw off bits of themselves
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Subject: atomic theory used for manipulating single atoms
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Subject: precision in weight and size measurements
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Subject: proving that the principle of equivalence holds for antimatter
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Subject: lack of violations proves the exclusion principle
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Subject: trying to synthesize element 114
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Subject: lowering temperature near absolute zero
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Subject: ocean contains less gold than expected
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Subject: a new answer to Olbers' paradox: insufficient time for the sky to brighten
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Subject: observing starlight from outside the Solar system to avoid zodiacal light
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Subject: a gravitational lens bends quasar light
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Subject: the bending of light may help detect missing mass in the universe
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Original Title: Planet Finders, The
Subject: finding planets by the gravitational lens effect
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Subject: Polaris and other Cepheid variable stars
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Subject: the Crab supernova was seen by native Americans
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Subject: a surprising ancient description of Sirius as a red star
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Subject: the life cycle of stars and brown dwarfs
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Subject: a type I supernova may have started our solar system
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Subject: the 1987 supernova provided a distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud
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Subject: the Hubble telescope gives new data
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Subject: a newly discovered dwarf galaxy in the Local Group of galaxies
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Subject: galaxy rotation and other activity
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Subject: a computer simulation of the early universe
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Subject: the unevenness of quasar distribution is a mystery
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Subject: more very dense objects are being discovered
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Subject: the 1991 discovery of a bright object could upset theories of galaxy formation
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Subject: an odd theory puts black holes inside the Earth
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Subject: black holes' effect on their neighborhood
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Subject: the evidence for a black hole vs. a star cluster at the galactic center
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Subject: studying conditions of the early universe
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Subject: diversity in the appearance of the universe
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Guide to Essays
Authors:
Edward Seiler
ejseiler@earthlink.net
Richard Hatcher (hatch888@airmail.net)