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January 2005

Volume 58, Issue 1

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God's Rays

Bryce DeWitt
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The physicist's quest for understanding is not the only way to raise the level of our existence and give our lives meaning.

Computational Science Demands a New Paradigm

Douglass E. Post and Lawrence G. Votta
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The field has reached a threshold at which better organization becomes crucial. New methods of verifying and validating complex codes are mandatory if computational science is to fulfill its promise for science and society.

How to Popularize Physics

Elizabeth H. Simmons
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An outreach effort can combine an eager audience, a favorite topic, and a preferred medium of expression to achieve a wonderful teaching experience.
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A Time to Celebrate

Stephen G. Benka
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Physics Update

Phillip G. Schewe
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EU Science Funding Milestones Miss the Mark

Riitta Hari and Pertti Hari
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Nuclear Pit Facility's Merits, Snags, and Timelines

Everet Beckner, Steve Fetter, and Frank N. von Hippel
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Cause and Effect in Global Warming

George E. Smith and Spencer Weart
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Even in Translation, Richter's ‘Science’ Unimpressive

Javier Luzuriaga
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Up on the Roof, Another Green Weapon

Iain R McNab
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Misattribution and the Matthew Effect

Douglas F. Brewer, Sam Silverman, R. Stephen Berry, and N. David Mermin
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A Fine Point on Light's Angular Momentum

Anthony Siegman, Miles Padgett, and Les Allen
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Double Anniversary: Miracles and Peace

Lawrence Cranberg
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Correction

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Albert Einstein to Marie Curie

Albert Einstein
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An Array of Cherenkov Telescopes Yields the First Resolved Image of a Celestial Gamma‐Ray Source

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Imaging with TeV photons provides the most direct evidence yet that cosmic rays originate in the shock fronts of supernova remnants.

New Study Correlates Mantle Melting to Mid‐Ocean Ridge Segments

Mark Wilson
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Variations found in the composition along a stretch of exposed mantle on the Arabian peninsula offer fresh evidence for the link between the length scale of ridge segments and Earth's convection process.
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R&D Budget Brings Modest Increases to Most Civilian R&D; NSF Takes a Hit

Jim Dawson
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As in the past three US budgets, defense and homeland security received most of the federal R&D dollars. With the federal deficit at $413 billion and climbing, most budget experts expect science funding to get worse before it gets better.

Texas A&M Reaches for Stars

Toni Feder
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Hard Push for Soft‐Matter Research at NYU

Toni Feder
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Activities Large and Small Set for International Year of Physics

Toni Feder
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Barring ITER Site Consensus, Europe Will Forge Ahead

Toni Feder
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Oddone Named to Head Fermilab

Jim Dawson
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Cold Fusion Gets Chilly Encore

Toni Feder
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News Notes

Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Taking the King's Shilling: The Pleasures and Consequences of Working ‘Inside’

Peter D. Zimmerman
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Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma

Jeremy Bernstein and Steven Weinberg, Reviewer
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Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity

Sean M. Carroll and Jennie Traschen, Reviewer
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Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity

James B. Hartle and Jennie Traschen, Reviewer
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Elements of Wavelets for Engineers and Scientists

Dwight F. Mix, Kraig J. Olejniczak, and Jean‐Pierre Antoine, Reviewer
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Nanocosm: Nanotechnology and the Big Changes Coming from the Inconceivably Small

William Illsey Atkinson and Mark Reed, Reviewer
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Applied Quantum Mechanics

A. F. J. Levi and William R. Frensley, Reviewer
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Basic Concepts for Simple and Complex Liquids

Jean‐Louis Barrat, Jean‐Pierre Hansen, and John D. Weeks, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Data Acquisition

Lawrence G. Rubin
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NWO Awards Spinoza Prize

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Arnold Orville Beckman

Theodore L. Brown and Harry B. Gray
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Hans Bömmel

Ernst Bucher
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Clifford V. Heer

David Olaf Edwards, William R. Riley, and Richard L. Sutherland
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Janet Akyüz Mattei

Lee Anne Willson and Elizabeth O. Waagen
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Harry Louis Melanson

Maris Abolins, Heidi Schellman, Petros Rapidis, Linda Stutte, and John Womersley
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Arthur Roberts

John G. Learned and Joseph B. Platt
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Joseph Thomas Rogers

Maury Tigner
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