págs. 6-6
Meat and Right: The killing and eating of other species are time-honored human practices, but for a growing number of people, carnivory is murder.
págs. 18-19
págs. 22-22
Nesting in Gotham: A survey of breeding birds finds some summer surprises in Central Park, Manhattan's 840-acre backyard.
págs. 24-26
Bacon, Brought Home: The father of modern science recognized that internal psychological barriers to understanding nature were as constraining as sensory limitations.
págs. 28-33
págs. 34-37
Fire, Ice, Fossils: Born of lava and shifthing earth, the glacier-topped Andes hold clues to a continent's past.
págs. 38-41
Neptune's Furnace: An expedition to hot springs on the ocean floor brings home samples of life at the extremes.
págs. 42-47
págs. 48-53
Born to Dance: Choreography in a beehive.
págs. 54-57
A Reverence for Cows: For millenia, cattle have supplied South Asians with milk, animal power, and dung for fetilizer and fuel. Tractors, petrochemicals, and nuclear power seem unlikely to dethrone these animals from their special place in Indian society.
Doranne Jacobson, Lori Grinker (fot.)
págs. 58-63
págs. 64-67
Venusian Testimony: The phases of Venus as it moves in its orbit between Earth and the Sun provided Galileo with the evidence he needed to refute the long-held beliefs of his day.
págs. 68-69
págs. 69-69
Judy Rice, Michael P. L. Fogden (fot.), Patricia Fogden (fot.)
págs. 84-85
págs. 86-87
The Open Lead: In Alaska the sacred whale hunt continues.
págs. 88-88
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