Vol. 142 No. 9, February 2010
Index
- Dear teacher.
- The case of the teen brain.
- Analyze the photo.
- Analyze the political cartoon.
- Game show.
- Melting away.
- Syntax from simians?
- No more Mister Nice Guy.
- Pricey pixels.
- Time to re-zone?
- 2.1 million.
- 21%.
- 4 hours, 49 minutes.
- 49 million.
- 75%.
- All aboard! (except the men).
- Running for Congress?
- Insult or honor? More than 2,000 schools have given up Indian mascots in response to protests from Native Americans. But one tribe wants to keep its place on college Jerseys.
- From slavery to the white house: Michelle Obama's roots go back to the pre-civil war south: the five-generation journey of the first lady's family.
- Free speech vs. privacy: as courts around the world try to catch up to technology, Wikipedia finds itself caught between Germany's privacy laws and our first amendment.
- Afghanistan: how we got there: both the war in Afghanistan and America's battle with al Qaeda spring directly from the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
- TSI: teen science investigations: on the case, with winners of the 2009 Intel ISEF Addiction Science Awards.
- Digits and destiny: why people around the world pay so much attention to numbers.
- When can I tell a cellphone user to just be quiet?
- Should the U.S. reinstate the draft? The U.S. has retied on a volunteer army since 1973. With Americans fighting, and dying, in Afghanistan and Iraq, is it time to bring back the draft?
- [Cartoon].