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COLUMNS
Field Notes • Alone to the North Pole
With no outside aid, one of the authors matches technology and his own wits against the most hostile environment on earth
BØRGE OUSLAND AND KJELL OVE STORVIK
Works in Progress • Taming the Hypercello
Yo Yo Ma reclaims a space for the performer in electronic music
THOMAS LEVENSON
ESSAYS & COMMENT
After the Deluge
The floods of 1993 raise a troubling question: what to do if the great midwestern rivers can never be controlled
RAE ZIMMERMAN
FEATURES
The Story of e
As pi is to the circle, e is to the logarithmic spiral. This curious number plays a central role in nature and in mathematics.
ELI MAOR
On Common Ground • Revealing Legs
Of salamander men and birds that couldn't walk
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROSAMOND PURCELL
TEXT BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD
Cover Story • Timing is Everything
In sickness, as in health, rhythm is a critical factor. Effective treatment must work with the body's clocks, not against them
WILLIAM J.M. HRUSHESKY
REVIEWS
Two Tales of the City
New York urban culture grew upward with great apartment buildings and outward with the subways. Public policy ought to nourish these social inventions, not abandon them
ELLIOTT SCLAR
Books in Brief • Culling the Wild
PLUS: a history of space suits; the poisonous chemistry of Agatha Christie
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Quanta
Top quark found-probably; a threat to the great tit; the sun in global warming; machines that slither; TV "science" plays a cynical joke
Strange Matter
Coming Soon from Biolab, Inc.
ROZ CHAST
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