Spring 2001 Table of Contents

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COLUMNS
Anecdotal Evidence • Worlds Apart
Two astronomers are claiming that many extrasolar planets are actually stars in hiding. The rest of astronomy is casting a skeptical eye
JEFFREY WINTERS

Physika • Tangled Tales
Life, death and romance, with a dash of quantum mechanics
HANS CHRISTIAN VON BAEYER

Essays & Comment
Climate of Doubt
The imminent collapse of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming may be a blessing in disguise. The treaty's architecture may be a blessing in disguise
DAVID G. VICTOR

Food Fight
The short, unhappy life of the Flavr Savr tomato
BELINDA MARTINEAU

FEATURES
The Dark Zone
Caves offer biologists the chance to study how darkness, famine and isolation have forced the hand of evolution
DAVID C. CULVER

REVIEWS
No Easy Way Out
Explaining consciousness - the how and why of human feeling - is such a hard problem that it may never yield to cognitive science
STEVAN HARNAD

Books in Brief • Funny Papers
PLUS: Einstein's amorous adventures; the rehabilitation of thalidomide
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL

DEPARTMENTS
Working Hypotheses • The Three Perfections
RODNEY W. NICHOLS

Peer Review
Letters from Readers

Quanta
Membranes from space? brimming with life; climate and the solar cycle; ice age aftershocks; gene pool

Spring 2001

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