Winter 2009
Contents
Cover Story
by Jeff Worley
Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 32-year-old law prohibiting residents in the nation’s capital from owning handguns, claiming it violated the Constitution’s Second Amendment. The top gun-control researcher in the country applauded the ruling, citing decades of scientific studies that make the decision the only rational choice.
Other Features
by Kristen Coyne
While the U.S. stumbles forward on an energy policy that makes sense, crude oil is in little danger of losing its dominant role in our energy equation anytime soon. A new technique for picking good oil from bad may pay off handsomely where we need it most—at the pump.
by Robert Pool
What’s in a name? Try Thomas Middleton, the man who shared Shakespeare’s company, celebrity, productivity, wit and genius. yet for all that, this extraordinary man of letters of Elizabethan England has been all but forgotten until now.
by Christine Suh
Of all our agues, heart disease remains our top killer. Now comes a natural molecule that shows remarkable promise for keeping the blood flowing.
Departments
Abstracts
A Community Celebrates Science & Discovery, Treasured Texts, Biology's Big New Eye, Stem Cell Short-Cut?
Reviews
Looking for the New Deal: Florida Women's Letters During the Great Depression, Stalking the Plumed Serpent and Other Adventures in Herpetology.
Portrait
Professor of Mechanical Engineering Farrukh Alvi named director of the newly created Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion.
From the Field
In Pursuit of the Wily Harpacticoid - Few things fire up the blod of an oceanography
Insight
Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel (1834-1919) was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist, who, despite a long and....
