Scientific American (February 2004)

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 2
SA Perspectives: A Waste of Energy......Page 4
On the Web......Page 5
Letters to the Editors......Page 6
50, 100 and 150 Years Ago......Page 8
News Scan......Page 9
Innovations: Micro(mechanical)phones......Page 19
Staking Claims: Working the System......Page 21
Skeptic: A Bounty of Science......Page 22
Insights: Talking Bacteria......Page 23
Insights into Shock......Page 25
Four Keys to Cosmology......Page 31
The Cosmic Symphony......Page 33
Reading the Blueprints of Creation......Page 43
From Slowdown to Speedup......Page 51
Out of the Darkness......Page 57
Better Displays with Organic Films......Page 65
The Case of the Unsolved Crime Decline......Page 71
Working Knowledge: Data Driven......Page 79
Technicalities: A Walk in the Woods......Page 81
Reviews: Good with Their Feet......Page 84
Puzzling Adventures: All or Nothing......Page 86
Anti Gravity: It Is High, It Is Far......Page 87
Ask the Experts......Page 88
Fuzzy Logic......Page 89