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GOOD READING

  • "The Eagle's Nest'' by Samantha Parker in Sky & Telescope, February 1996, pp 32-34. These Hubble Space Telescope images of interstellar clouds in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years from earth, are spectacular.

  • "Chess Champion Sinks Deep Blue's Figuring'' by I. Peterson in Science News 149, February 24, 1996, p 119. Kasparov maintained his superiority in chess over the IBM computer by 3 wins, 2 ties, and 1 loss. He did this by learning the computer's weaknesses during the first game, which he lost.

  • "1995: Maybe it Wasn't Such a Hot Year, After All'' by Sallie Baliunas in Citizen Outlook 11, No. 1, March/April 1996, available from P. O. Box 65722, Washington, DC 20035. This is a short, concise article for the layman showing that the crisis scenario global warming predictions are not in agreement with experiment and that actual warming can be expected to be insignificant.

  • "Grand Opening, Japan Starts World's First Advanced Reactor'' in Nuclear Energy Insight 96, February 1996, pp 1-4, available from the Nuclear Energy Institute, 1776 I Street, NW, Suite 400, Washing-ton, DC 20006-3708. Japan built and brought this power plant into operation in 52 months.

  • "Research Attacks Immune System Theory'' by J. E. Bishop in The Wall Street Journal, March 22 (1996), p B5. This new hypothesis suggests that the immune system is activated by specific danger signals rather than by learning the difference between self and nonself as has been believed for half a century. If this should turn out to be correct, it would have remarkable ramifications in medical science.

  • Science Without Sense, The Risky Business of Public Health Research by Steven Milloy published by the Cato Institute, 1000 Massa-chusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20001. This is a hilarious "guide'' for the young professional wishing to make a career in risk assessment and public health. It would be even funnier if so much of the author's advice were not excruciatingly correct.

  • "A New Dawn for Sun-Climate Links?'' by Richard A. Kerr, Science 271, pp 1360-1361, 8 March 1996. Complete with a graph showing correlation between the Earth's temperature and the Sun's activity, this article demonstrates that more scientists are inching toward a realization that the weather is warmer when the Sun shines more brightly, which has previously been recognized by only a select few.


 • Sweet and Dangerous
 • SUCROSE
 • UNITS OF MEASURE
 • A RADIATION RENAISSANCE
 • BURNING BOOKS
 • STARK RAVING MAD
 • GOOD READING
Vol. 23, No. 8

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Issue/No.: Vol. 23, No. 8

Date: April 01, 1996 02:52 PM (For actual publication date see newsletter.)
Title: Sweet and Dangerous

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