Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!rik From: rik@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.mag Subject: TOC Scientific American 251(4), Oct 1984 Message-ID: <1745@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Sat, 20-Oct-84 16:15:18 EDT Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.1745 Posted: Sat Oct 20 16:15:18 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 15:47:22 EDT Organization: UCLA CS Dept. Lines: 55 Table of Contents SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Volume 251 Number 4 October 1984 "COMPUTER RECREATIONS," Yank D. Weed, pp. 20-27. [A computational garden sprouting anagrams, pangrams and few weeds.] "SPACE-BASED BALLISTIC-MISSILE DEFENSE," Hans A. Bethe (Cornell University), Richard L. Garwin (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Kurt Gottfried (Cornell University) and Henry W. Kendall (M.I.T.), pp. 39-49. [It will set yet another heat in the arms race.] "PRIONS," Stanley B. Prusiner (University of California, San Francisco), pp. 50-59. [A new variety of infectious agent, 100 times smaller than a virus, appears to lack genetic material.] "SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY," Don L. Anderson and Adam M. Dziewonski (California Institute of Technology), pp. 60-68. [Geologists borrow an idea from medicine to make three- dimensional images of the earth's mantle.] "CARTILAGE," Arnold I. Caplan (Case Western University), pp. 84-94. [The molecules that make up cartilage enable it to play key structural roles in the human body.] "EPSILON AURIGAE," Margherita Hack (Astronomical Observatory of Trieste), pp. 98-105. [For 163 years this binary star has puzzled astronomers; its structure has now been clarified.] "A LATE ICE-AGE SETTLEMENT IN SOUTHERN CHILE," Tom D. Dillehay (University of Kentucky), pp. 106-117. [A forest site reveals that wood and plants were as important to its inhabitants as stone and bone.] "THE CONTINUOUS PROCESSING OF METALS IN THE U.S.S.R.," A.I. Tselikov (Moscow), pp. 120-129. [A remarkable engineering institution has made major innovations in this industrial technology.] "THE CRYSTAL PALACE," Folke T. Kihlstedt (Franklin and Marshall College), pp. 132-143. [Admired, yet not taken seriously as architecture, it heralded contemporary method and aesthetic.] "THE AMATEUR SCIENTIST," Jearl Walker, pp. 144-152. [The troublesome teapot effect, or why a poured liquid clings to the container.] ----- Rik Verstraete. rik@UCLA-CS.ARPA ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!rik