"The Need For A Space Frontier'' by Robert Zubrin in Ad Astra, May/June 1996, pp 6-9, available from The National Space Society, 922 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E., Washington, DC 20003. Zubrin calculates that, "the cost in terms of energy of launching a person to orbit is less than that of flying him across the Atlantic, while the energy cost of a trip to Mars is less than the cost of an airplane flight from New York to Sydney. The problem is that we don't yet have spacecraft that we build and fly like aircraft.''
"Cold Fusion and the Press'' by Charles G. Beaudette as reprinted by Cold Fusion magazine from The Torch66, No. 1, Fall 1993, ISSN 0040-9448, published by Bostrom Corp. We now seem to have two forms of energy - politically correct and politically incorrect. Some "cold fusion'' laboratories are producing large amounts of the latter form and are working toward an understanding of its source.
"Ozone Layer Monitoring Resumes'' in Nature383, p 294 (1996). This is a short article about the orbiting Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer, including a colored figure that puts world ozone levels in an easily visualized perspective.
"The Optimists are Right'' by John Tierney in New York Times Magazine, September 29, 1996. Technology is continuing to revolutionize the world and increase the quality of human life and the environment. Doomsaying is popular, and it is also quite wrong.
"On Catching Fly Balls'' in Science273, pp 256-260, which includes three articles by scientists studying the techniques that outfielders use in arriving at the right places at the right times to catch fly balls. These supplement the Access to Energy22, No. 10, p 2 (1995), article "Fly Balls'' based on the work of one of these three groups.
"Apocalypse Not'' by Jon Palfreman in Technology Review, April 1996, pp 24-33, concerning the lack of evidence that magnetic fields produced by electric power lines are harmful to health.
"Downer for Electric Cars'' by Constance Holden in Science 274, pp 183-184 (1996), reporting research work concluding that putting 500,000 electric cars on the streets of Los Angeles would reduce ozone levels from 200 parts per billion to 199 parts per billion or about 0.5 %. A California Air Resources Board bureaucrat is quoted as saying that the electric cars should still be required because "there isn't anything out there that provides a 2%, 5%, or 10% ozone reduction. All the easy stuff was done 20 years ago.''
