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EVOLUTION

1. Did Darwin get it wrong?
2. Human evolution alive with controversy
3. Why do tropical songbirds lay fewer eggs?
4. Evolution of the family dog
5. Bird killing cats
6. Humans evolved recently
7. Ribosomes are ribozymes
8. Making E. coli deadly
9. Lizard evolution
10. Meet Our Hobbit Cousins

NATURAL HISTORY

1. How pigeons navigate
2. Climbing the walls
3. Cytoskeleton interactions
4. Home Runs
5. Cow Compasses
6. How Tall Can Trees Get?

BIODIVERSITY

1. Do-it-yourself environmentalism
2. The killer bees are coming
3. Biodiversity behind bars
4. Is Flipper a senseless killer?
5. Polyandry in hawks
6. Is biodiversity good?
7. Songbirds are declining
8. Platypus Genome
9. Death Stalks Bats
10. Your Own Personal Ecosystem
11. Race and Medicine

TEACHING DARWIN IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

1. 140 years without Darwin are enough
2. Answering evolution’s critics
3. Keeping Darwin out of schoolrooms
4. Darwinism at the cellular level
5. Darwin and charter schools
6. Testing Evolution

LEARNING

1. Mind over matter in rats
2. Learning: Making smarter mice
3. Learning requires sleep
4. Repetition and Learning
5. Discovery of site in brain linked to I.Q.
6. Can dogs think?
7. To What Degree Does Environment Affect I.Q.?

DINOSAURS

1. Dinosaur Hearts
2. Feathered Dinosaurs
3. Dinosaurs for Thanksgiving dinner
4. Were dinosaurus warmblooded?
5. Dinosaurs at the Zoo

SCIENCE IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

1. Science in the new millennium
2. Two minor ice stories for the new century
3. Was Malthus mistaken
4. First American
5. Class of 2000
6. What’s killing the frogs?
7. Global Warming
8. Dying foal mystery
9. Combating Global Warming
10. CSI
11. E85 and Global Warming
12. Restaurant Forensics
13. Making Bread More Nutritious
14. Obama and Polar Bears

NOBEL PRIZE

1. Explaining this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine
2. Nobel Prize 2000

SCIENCE MEETS FANTASY

1. UFOs: Is seeing believing?
2. Yes, Virginia, there is a jackalope
3. A dragon named Hawk
4. Seeking sea monsters
5. Where are my socks?
6. AWOL socks again
7. Does Life Exist on Other Worlds?

HOLIDAYS

St. Valentine’s Day
Is love a chemical process?
The saga of Lonesome George

St. Patrick’s Day
Saint Patrick and the snakes of Ireland
How to catch a Leprechaun

Halloween
Going batty on Halloween

Thanksgiving
The Turkey’s Revenge

Christmas
Testing the Santa theory
The scientific theory of Santa Claus

LOCAL

1. St. Louis winters will be getting colder
2. St. Louis Zoo’s new director
3. Deer Hunting
4. Deer populations