Nov/Dec 1994 Table of Contents

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COLUMNS
On Human Nature • The Solace of Patterns
The strange attractors that define life's stages give shape even to grief
ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY

Studies From Life • Metamorphosis
An entomologist who grew up fearing insects has become one of their leading ambassadors
SYDNEY JOHNSON

ESSAYS & COMMENT
Energy conservation often backfires and leads to increased consumption
HERBERT INHABER AND HARRY SAUNDERS

FEATURES
Beyond E=mc²
A first glimpse of a postmodern physics, in which mass, inertia and gravity arise from underlying electromagnetic processes
BERNHARD HAISCH, ALFONSO RUEDA AND H. E. PUTHOFF

On Common Ground · Worldly Skulls
The subtle implications of scale
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROSAMOND PURCELL
TEXT BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD

Nothing to Sneeze At
Often treated as mere annoyances, allergies may have evolved to help defend the body against worms, ticks and fatal toxins
RANDOLPH M. NESSE AND GEORGE WILLIAMS

REVIEWS
Cover Story • Struggle for the Soul of Science
A gallimaufry of critics have been taunting science to defend its objectivity. Now their quarry has begun to strike back.
MICHAEL RUSE

Books in Brief • Egg Hunt
PLUS: Seeds of modern galaxies; the invention of the zipper
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL

DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook

Working Hypotheses • The Goddess and the Cow

Peer Review
Letters from Readers

Quanta
Hope for crack babies; curious cave creatures from 5,000,000 b.c.; scientific prefixes (out of the Marx brothers); digesting oil spills

Strange Matter
Loners in Cyberspace
ROZ CHAST

Nov/Dec 1994

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