masthead/headline reads: THE NEW WHY-QUIRER!! 30% MORE SCIENCE!! THE NATURAL WHY-QUIRER...SCIENCE'S NEWSPAPER... MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE IN SCIENTIFIC SCNDAL!...HOW DO THEY KNOW? SCIENTIFIC METHOD--OR MADNESS?
 

1.The Natural Why-Quirer (story map)

2.GM corn squabble

3.Nature pulls a U-turn

4.New news on old experiments

5.Madness in the method?

 

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Transgenic weeds

Phony science

Science hoaxes

Einstein's blunder worked!

Winning Nobels

Paper
Biodiversity (Communications Arising): Maize Transgene Results in Mexico are Artefacts, Nick Kaplinsky et al, Nature, and Biodiversity (Communications Arising (Reply): Suspect Evidence of Transgenic Contamination/Maize Transgene Results in Mexico are Artefacts, David Quist et al, Nature, published online 4 April 2002.

Both Sides Now: Fallacies in the Genetic-Modification Wars, Implications for Developing Countries, and Anthropological Perspectives, Glenn Davis Stone, Current Anthropology, 43(5), in press, 2002.

Evidence for Nuclear Emissions During Acoustic Cavitation, R.P. Taleyarkhan et al, Science, Mar. 8, 2001, 1868-73; see related articles and editorials, same issue.

The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Monsanto Says Gene-Altered Canola May Be in U.S. Food, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 16, 2002, C1.

Has GM Corn "Invaded" Mexico? Charles Mann, Science, 1 Mar. 2002, pp. 1617-9.

Journal Raises Doubts on Biotech Study, Carol Kaesuk Yoon, The New York Times, April 5, 2002, A21.

New Research Fuels Debate Over Genetic Food Altering, Andrew Pollack, The New York Times, September 9, 2001. The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science, Naomi Oreskes, Oxford University Press, 1999.

Transgenic DNA Introgressed into Traditional Maize Landraces in Oaxaca, Mexico, David Quist and Ignacio Chapela, Nature, 29 Nov. 2001, pp. 541-3.

'Worst Ever' GM Crop Invasion, Charles Clover, The Daily Telegraph (London), April 19, 2002.

Grain: World Markets and Trade. 2001/02 Global Wheat and Coarse Grain Trade Diverge. FAO/USDA.

Electronic
Special thanks to the Friends of the Center for History of Physics for their generous support which allowed you to use the photographs from the AIP Emilio Segrč Visual Archives, as their donations also help support continued access to the collection.

What's on your plate? Senate regulations on genetically altered corn.

Heavens help us the universe is beige.

Which colors are right for you this spring? The Cosmic Spectrum's guide to the Universe.

Meet the scientific method.

Slide on over to this show on the scientific method.

Are you scientifically literate?

Introducing... the scientific method!

Be a responsible researcher. The Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy can show you how.

Scientific inquiry for kids: Introductory and Intermediate guides.

Bubble trouble?

Blowing bubbles up your nuclear reactor.

Nuclear fusion in a beaker?

Neener neener neener...Alfred Wegener was right.

Best build a raft, the continents are adrift.

These three-headed chickens produced this edition of The Why Files.

 

 

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