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A Two-Planet Species?
The right way to think about our space program.
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Will Frankenfood Save the Planet?
Over the next half century genetic engineering could feed humanity and solve a raft of environmental ills—if only environmentalists would let it. By Jonathan Rauch
E.T. and God
Sep Could earthly religions survive the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe? By Paul Davies
Long Shot
May An eccentric new company called Sea Launch is sending large rockets into space from a floating launch pad that sails to the Equator for blast-off. Has the era of private space travel begun?
By Gregg Easterbrook
Floor Time
Jan/Feb A new approach to the treatment of autism, one that emphasizes emotional development through intensive one-on-one engagement with autistic children, appears to offer some hope in responding to a disorder that is both epidemic and frequently intractable. By Patricia Stacey
Grade A: The Market for a Yale Woman's Eggs
Dec When a Yale undergraduate explored becoming an egg donor for a wealthy couple willing to pay top dollar to the right candidate, she didn't realize how unsettling the process of candidacy would prove to be. By Jessica Cohen
SPECIAL REPORT
Homeland Insecurity
Sep A top expert says America's approach to protecting itself will only make matters worse. Forget "foolproof" technology—we need systems designed to fail smartly. By Charles C. Mann
HEALTH
Bucking the Herd
Sep Parents who refuse vaccination for their children may be putting entire communities at risk. By Arthur Allen
Designer Bugs
Jul/Aug What happens when bio-terrorism meets genetic engineering? By Jon Cohen
CENTERPIECE
A Space in Time
Jul/Aug Click for the universe ... Your home computer, thanks to the windows that NASA has poked in space, is the site of the greatest show on earth. A deskbound cosmic pilgrim beckons us to an available sublimity. By Michael Benson
Cloning Trevor
Jun Granted rare access to the labs of Advanced Cell Technology, the only U.S. group openly pursuing human cloning research for medical purposes, our correspondent spent six months tracking highly experimental work on the cells of a young boy with a life-threatening genetic disorder. By Kyla Dunn
Of Clones and Clowns
Jun A distinguished molecular biologist discusses the "cloning circus" and the damage it is doing to serious research. By Robert A. Weinberg
Uncle Sam Buys an Airplane
Jun How Lockheed Martin beat Boeing for the biggest military contract in history—and how that one contract could change the way the military builds and pays for its weapons. By James Fallows
COMMENT
The American Way of War
Jun The third of three essays on the revolution in air power. By Michael Kelly
The Royal We
May The mathematical study of genealogy indicates that everyone in the world is descended from Nefertiti and Confucius, and that everyone of European ancestry is descended from Muhammad and Charlemagne. By Steve Olson
COMMENT
Slow Squeeze
May One legacy of Vietnam that we continue to live with is the idea that air power canon win a war. By Michael Kelly
Stalking the American Lobster
Apr Government scientists say lobsters are being dangerously overfished. Lobstermen say that's not so. Into this familiar standoff comes a new breed of ecologist, determined to understand the lobster's secret life. By Trevor Corson
Seeing Around Corners
Apr The new science of artificial societies suggests that real ones are both more predictable and more surprising than we thought. By Jonathan Rauch
COMMENT
The Air-Power Revolution
Apr Historians and military analysts have long stressed the limitations of air power. Their arguments are no longer tenable. By Michael Kelly
COMMENT
Jack or Jill?
Mar The era of consumer-driven eugenics has begun. By Margaret Talbot
INTELLIGENCE
Losing the Code War
Feb The great age of code breaking is over—and with it much of our ability to track the communications of our enemies. By Stephen Budiansky
WASHINGTON DESK
Councils of War
Feb Military spinoffs have transformed civilian life. The momentum right now may be running in the other direction. By James Fallows
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Keeping the Net Secure
Jan September 11 demonstrated the great strength of the internet. Now it's time to address the Internet's weaknesses. By Reed Hundt
TECHNOLOGY
Pixels at an Exhibition
Dec It may be time to take a closer look at digital photography. By Marshall Jon Fisher
MILITARY AFFAIRS
Fourth-Generation Warfare
Dec Pentagon mavericks have been trying for decades to reorient military strategy toward a new kind of threat—the kind we're suddenly facing in the war on terrorism. Now that we've got the war they predicted, will we get the reforms they've been pushing for? By Jason Vest
Moonrise
Dec A mother describes a teenage son with muscular dystrophy—the life he leads and the one he can look forward to. By Penny Wolfson
NOTES & DISPATCHES
Countering the Smallpox Threat
Dec Even before the September 11 attacks heightened our fears of bio-terrorism, a biologist came up with a sensible strategy for coping with one of the most fearsome possibilities. By Jonathan Rauch
BOOKS & CRITICS
One-Alarm Fire
Dec U.S. counterterrorism may be overly preoccupied with biological weapons—which have a rather poor track record. By Bruce Hoffman
DESIGN
Looking Alive
Nov The objects around us are becoming more and more like living things. By Thomas Hine
NOTES & DISPATCHES
In Search of the Perfect Storm
Oct The race for ever more sensational "torn porn" is on. By Wayne Curtis
NOTES & DISPATCHES
New Life for Moore's Law
Oct After four decades of remarkably steady progress, advances in computer-chip technology seemed in danger of slowing. Not anymore. By James Fallows
NOTES & DISPATCHES
Help Wanted
Sep The head of NASA forecasts a bleak future for American science. By Daniel Goldin
NOTES & DISPATCHES
The Colonel and the Bomb
Jul/Aug Can a forty-year-old lost Cold War relic be brought to light? By Bill Donahue
INNOCENT BYSTANDER
Second Opinions
Jun History winds up in the waiting room. By Cullen Murphy
New World Syndrome
Jun What happens when the traditional diet in a developing land is suddenly overwhelmed by Western plenty? The epidemic of obesity in Micronesia offers one answer. By Ellen Ruppel Shell
NOTES & DISPATCHES
Byte, Byte, Against the Dying of the Light
May A new senior-care facility e-monitors every move. By Bill Donahue
Techno-Thriller
May You've seen it before. You'll see it again. By Ian Frazier
The Genetic Archaeology of Race
Apr The idea that got Luigi Cavalli-Sforza into trouble is this: the only way to understand how similar we are is to learn how we differ. By Steve Olson
INNOCENT BYSTANDER
Thy Will Be Done
Apr Blind studies and unanswered prayers. By Cullen Murphy
The Reinvention of Privacy
Mar The public fears that the last of privacy will perish in the information age. But what technology has taken away it will soon give back. By Toby Lester
COMPUTERS
Around the World in Eighty Megabytes
Mar Flight simulation—using a computer to pretend to fly a plane—has become both a surprisingly realistic experience and a surprisingly popular hobby. By James Fallows
NOTES & DISPATCHES
The Hollywood Forever Way of Death
Mar Digital immortality—and not just for the stars. By Ed Leibowitz
NOTES & DISPATCHES
Forget the Yellowfin
How much does a company's culture really contribute to its success? By James Fallows
Shock and Disbelief
Feb Electroconvulsive therapy is safe and effective. An unusual assortment of activist groups is striving to suppress that message. By Daniel Smith
The New Old Economy: Oil, Computers, and the Reinvention of the Earth
Jan
Knowledge, not petroleum, is becoming the critical resource in the oil business," the author writes in this firsthand account of how technology is stretching the bounds of finitude. By Jonathan Rauch
COMPUTERS
From Your Lips to Your Printer
Dec
Finally, voice-recognition software that (almost) lives up to its promise to liberate those unable or unwilling to type. By James Fallows
NOTES & COMMENT
Hybrid Vigor
Nov
A funny thing happened on the way to the demise of the plug-in car. By Gregg Easterbrook
The Hunt for the Origin of AIDS
Oct
The notion that AIDS arose from a polio vaccine made with contaminated chimpanzee cells—the thesis of the best-selling book The River—is far from the only theory about how the epidemic started, and it is hotly disputed. The quest for the source of the epidemic is intensifying. By Jon Cohen
The Heavenly Jukebox
Sep
Recent coverage of the spread of "contraband" music on the Internet has missed some basic points. Chief among them: the fight against Internet piracy is being led by a peculiar and grasping business—the recording industry—that should not be allowed to set the rules. By Charles C. Mann
NOTES & COMMENT
No "There" There
Aug
Why cyberspace isn't geography. By Jonathan G. S. Koppell
RADIO
The World Streaming In
Jul
Free, easy-to-use software turns any PC into the greatest shortwave set there ever was. By Bill McKibben
LITERARY LIVES
The Jaguar and the Fox
Jul
Hard as he tried, Murray Gell-Mann could never make himself into a legend like his rakish colleague and collaborator, Richard Feynman—even if he was probably the greater physicist. By George Johnson
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
Jun
The year is 1958. A sixteen-year-old boy arrives at Harvard College. He absorbs an intellectual ethos that emphasizes the dangers of science and the evils of modern society. Meanwhile, he is subjected to a brutal and abusive psychological experiment that today would never be allowed. Meet the young Ted Kaczynski, future serial murderer and anti-technology zealot. By Alston Chase
Does Civilization Cause Asthma?
May
Asthma is growing at an alarming and puzzling rate in industrialized countries, and the answers to the mystery of its origins may lie in our very attempts to prevent childhood disease. By Ellen Ruppel Shell
The Virus and the Vaccine
Feb
A simian virus known as SV40 has been associated with a number of rare human cancers. This same virus contaminated the polio vaccine administered to 98 million Americans from 1955 to 1963. Federal health officials see little reason for concern. A growing cadre of medical researchers disagree. By Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher
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FLASHBACKS
Money Into the Void
Mar 3 Is the exorbitant expense of space exploration worth it? Articles from 1895 to the present consider the merits.
FLASHBACKS
Getting Normal
Aug 13 Articles from The Atlantic's archive on tobacco, amphetamines, Ritalin, and other drugs demonstrate that our dependence on psychotropic substances for self-improvement is not new.
INTERVIEWS
Simon Winchester: When the Earth Flexes Its Muscles
Jul 10
Simon Winchester, the author of Krakatoa, talks about the natural and cultural reverberations of a famous volcanic eruption.
INTERVIEWS
Nick Cook: Into the Black
Sep 5
Nick Cook, a respected military journalist, describes his foray into a hidden "black world" where powerful technologies of warfare are born.
FLASHBACKS
Technology and Security
Aug 21
Four recent Atlantic articles consider the drawbacks of relying too heavily on technology to protect us from terrorism.
FLASHBACKS
Life, the Universe, and Everything
Jun 26
Atlantic articles from the past two decades consider the quest for a comprehensive theory of the universe.
FLASHBACKS
Attack of the Clones
Jun 5
Articles by James Watson and Donald Fleming offer a look back at the evolution of the human-cloning debate.
INTERVIEWS
Under the Microscope
May 1
Atul Gawande, a surgeon and a writer, talks about why he set out to demystify the world of medicine.
INTERVIEWS
The Science of the Palette
Apr 4
Philip Ball, the author of Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color, talks about the intersection of art, science, and creativity.
INTERVIEWS
The World on a Screen
Mar 29
The author of "Seeing Around Corners" talks about what the study of artificial societies has to tell us about the real world.
INTERVIEWS
The Pristine Myth
Mar 7
Charles C. Mann, the author of "1491," talks about the thriving and sophisticated Indian landscape of the pre-Columbus Americas.
INTERVIEWS
The Asylum on the Hill
Jan 4
Alex Beam, the author of Gracefully Insane, probes the rich past of a mental hospital renowned for ministering to prominent, creative, and aristocratic patients.
INTERVIEWS
The World Beneath Our Feet
Aug 29
A conversation with Simon Winchester, whose new book, The Map That Changed the World, rescues a pioneering geologist from obscurity.
INTERVIEWS
The Soul of a New Flying Machine
May 25
A conversation with James Fallows, The Atlantic's national correspondent, whose new book, Free Flight, argues that the next generation of small planes could usher in a new age of travel.
INTERVIEWS
Of Monkeys and Men
Apr 25
The author of A Primate's Memoir talks about his years as a member of a troop of Serengeti baboons.
INTERVIEWS
Unhappy Meals
Dec 14
Eric Schlosser, an award-winning investigative journalist, talks about his new book, Fast Food Nation, and the "dark side of the all-American meal."
DIGITAL READER
The Believer
Jan 18
In Book Business, the publisher Jason Epstein recalls a bygone era in American literary life, and sees hope of a renaissance. By Ralph Lombreglia
CROSSCURRENTS
Missing Links
Dec 21 From C. P. Snow's "Two Cultures" to Alan Sokal's hoax, the fault lines between the humanities and the sciences are as visible as ever. It doesn't have to be that way, Harvey Blume writes.
DIGITAL READER
The Ghosts of E-Books Past
Dec 14 Ralph Lombreglia on the new Jack Kerouac e-book, Orpheus Emerged, and why it sent him on a personal journey into e-publishing's not-so-distant past.
DIGITAL READER
Exit Gutenberg?
Nov 16 At last week's eBook World conference in New York, only one thing was certain: the future of our literary culture is up for grabs. By Ralph Lombreglia
CROSSCURRENTS
Faith and Cyberspace
Oct 18 The Talmud and the Internet, a memoir by Jonathan Rosen, and
Blue, an experimental novel by Benjamin Zucker, offer strikingly different perspectives on religion and new media, piety and public life. By Harvey Blume
WEB CITATIONS
Canned Substance
Oct 11 Online or on TV, is there any reason to take in the Bush-Gore debates? Nicholas Confessore considers.
WEB CITATIONS
Why (Some) Americans Hate the Internet
Sep 13 Attack ads come to the Web. By Wen Stephenson
CROSSCURRENTS
Geek Studies
Jul 13 Hackers, freaks, outsiders, Homo Superior? Call them what you will, geeks are everywhere, and their stories help explain how science is shaping us. By Harvey Blume
INTERVIEWS
Two Geeks on Their Way to Byzantium
Jun 28 Richard Powers—a writer who connects technology, art, and politics as few others can—talks about his new novel Plowing the Dark, and the age-old human search for the virtual and the eternal.
CROSSCURRENTS
Soul of the New Economy
Jun 8 A new genre, call it "The Businessman as Revolutionary," has corporate culture co-opting counterculture in the Internet economy. Yet, as Jeremy Rifkin argues in The Age of Access, it's capitalism itself that may be transformed—and not necessarily for the better. By Scott Stossel
DIGITAL CULTURE
Reimagining the Cosmos
May 3 Through the quest for a quantum computer—described in Julian Brown's Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse—much is becoming clear about the paradoxical world of quantum mechanics. Will it change the way we think about our universe (or multiverse)? By Harvey Blume
WEB CITATIONS
Sucking Sounds
Apr 6 Is politics on the Web a bust? Nicholas Confessore investigates the new wave of for-profit "politics portals."
DIGITAL CULTURE
Bugged
Mar 15 We survived the Millennium Bug. But just because we're no longer threatened by bad software from the 1960s, it doesn't mean we're safe from all the bad software of the 1990s. By Charles C. Mann
INTERVIEWS
A Doctor's Stories
Mar 8 A conversation with Jerome Groopman, an acclaimed doctor, researcher, and writer whose new book, Second Opinions, offers a rare inside view of modern medicine.
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