Scientific American Contents, August 2013 Volume 309 Number 2, pp 6 - 106

TABLE OF CONTENTS August 2013 Volume 309, Issue 2 From the Editor Letters Science Agenda Forum Advances The Science of Health TechnoFiles Features Reviews and Recommendations Skeptic Anti Gravity 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago Graphic Science Recommend to your library Web feed Available online only Subscribe Advertisement Scientific American Recommend to your library for online access Scientific American provides you with an overview of the latest in science and technology. Covering everything from medical research and hypertension to global climate change and evolution, Scientific American offers researchers, students, educators an online scientific resource they can rely on. Recommend site license access to your library today!   From the Editor Top Bits for Brains   p6 Mariette DiChristina doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-6 Letters Top Letters   pp8 - 9 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-8 Science Agenda Top Solitary Is Cruel and Unusual   p10 The Editors doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-10 Forum Top Beyond the God Particle   p12 Don Lincoln doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-12 Advances Top Hidden and Dangerous   pp14 - 15 Helen Branswell doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-14 Lending Robots an Ear   p15 Gregory Mone doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-15a By The Numbers   p15 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-15b The Art of Distraction   p16 Erik Vance doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-16 Anxiety Can Be Good for You—Sometimes   p19 Ferris Jabr doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-19a Fact-Checking a Frozen Mammoth   p19 Kate Wong doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-19b The Coming Boom in Geothermal Fracking   p20 David Biello doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-20a By The Numbers   p20 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-20b What is it?   p21 Luciana Gravotta doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-21 Computing Superstorm Sandy   p22 Ian Roulstone and John Norbury doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-22 Medicine's Most Minuscule Frontier   p23 Marissa Fessenden doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-23 Bug vs. Superbug   p24 Charles Q. Choi doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-24a Patent Watch   p24 Arielle Duhaime-Ross doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-24b Phantom Planets   p25 Ron Cowen doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-25 A Microbial Mystery   p26 Melinda Wenner Moyer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-26 The Science of Health Top Rethinking Rabies   pp28 - 30 Maryn McKenna doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-28 TechnoFiles Top The Last Thing You'll Memorize   p32 David Pogue doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-32 Features Top Perchance to Prune   pp34 - 39 Giulio Tononi and Chiara Cirelli doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-34 What Is Real?   pp40 - 47 Meinard Kuhlmann doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-40 Big Data Goes to School   pp48 - 52 The Editors:  doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-48 Hype and Hope   pp53 - 61 Jeffrey Bartholet doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-53 Massively Personal   p55 Peter Norvig doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-55 No More Lockstep Learning   p57 Salman Khan doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-57 An Opportunity for India   pp58 - 59 Pawan Agarwal doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-58 “Experimentation Is Key”   pp60 - 61 Robert A. Lue doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-60 Machine Learning   pp62 - 68 Seth Fletcher doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-62 Promise and Peril   pp66 - 67 Diane Ravitch doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-66 Education Is for the (Angry) Birds   p68 Peter Vesterbacka doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-68 Why We Need High-Speed Schools   pp69 - 71 Arne Duncan doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-69 “I Was Pleasantly Surprised”   pp72 - 73 Jeffrey Bartholet doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-72 Why Exercise Works Magic   pp74 - 79 Shari S. Bassuk, Timothy S. Church and JoAnn E. Manson doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-74 Raising the Wreck   pp80 - 83 Barbie Latza Nadeau doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-80 The Surprising Origins of Life's Complexity   pp84 - 89 Carl Zimmer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-84 How to Swim in Molasses   pp90 - 95 Ferris Jabr doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-90 Reviews and Recommendations Top The West without Water   p96 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-96a Betting on Famine   p96 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-96b The Truth in Small Doses   p96 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-96c The Sports Gene   p96 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-96d Skeptic Top Five Myths of Terrorism   p98 Michael Shermer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-98 Anti Gravity Top Embrace the Ick   p99 Steve Mirsky doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-99 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago Top 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago   p100 Daniel C. Schlenoff doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-100 Graphic Science Top Living in Harm's Way   p102 Mark Fischetti doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0813-102   Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. 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