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COLUMNS
Field Notes • The Lizard King
Among the vanishing oddities of Madagascar, the most curious creature of all may be the herpetologist
CHRIS RAXWORTHY PETER TYSON
Anecdotal Evidence • Incident at Curuçã
If a meteor fell in Brazil's rain forest more than sixty-five years ago and almost nobody heard it, why is it suddenly making noise?
PATRRICK HUYGHE
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Immaculate Reception
Will digital TV and the newly passed communications act give birth to a monster or to a screen saviour?
MARSHALL JON FISHER
FEATURES
Cover Story • The Rage of Innocents
The ubiquitous Furby and other interactive playthings offer a window into the digital environment of the near future, dense with intelligent machines
CRAIG F. FERRIS
Chain of Being
After thirteen years of work, every gene in yeast has now been mapped. Some are near-twins of our own. Others are like nothing ever seen before.
HOWARD BUSSEY
Beyond the Last Theorem
In May of last year two mathematicians published a proof of Fermat's conjecture, the most famous mathematical brainteaser of all time. So what comes next?
DORIAN GOLDFELD
REVIEWS
Slice of Life
Virtual dissection is still a cut below the real thing
JAMES S. SWEITZER
Books in Brief • AGAINST THE GRAIN
PLUS: Star Trek deconstructed; chemistry as haiku
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Power Bars
PETER G. BROWN
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • On Scientists, Truth and Power
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
When ron, plankton and global climate; smart fabrics, smart guitars; sabotaging bacterial proteins; first photographs of a star's surface
Strange Matter
Could You Be an Alien . . . and Not Know It?
ROZ CHAST
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