Science & the Movies issue

On the cover:  Albert Einstein adorns images from famous movies.
Click on the cover to see a closeup.

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Special Section: Science & the Movies

• The Curious Deaths of Movie Museum Curators     Sally Y. Shelton
• Script an Astronomer, Then Reach for the Stars      Eric Schulman
• Playing out soon: Entropy!      Dave Dowling
• Case Analysis of a Historic Killer Tornado Event in Kansas On 10 June,1938       Charles A. Doswell III &Harold E. Brooks
• Introductory Thermodynamics for Martini Drinkers (With Laboratory Exercises)           Peter J. Carrato

Sectional Special: Fame

• Can Fame Be Measured Quantitatively?           Eric Schulman
• Should Fame Be Measured Quantitatively?          Earle Spamer

Medical Breakthroughs

• HMO Noir News
• AIRhead Medical Review*   Bertha Vanation

AIR head Research Roundup

• AIRhead Research Review*   Dirk Manley
• May We Recommend*       Stephen Drew
• Boys Will Be Boys*         KatherineLee
• Project AIR head 2000*        GrigorBelfrey
• Plucked from Obscurity: A Simple Fire Escape*     Marina Tsipis
• Scientists Now Know...*  Ada Tussock

News & Notes

• AIR Vents
• Nobel Thoughts: John Polanyi                Marc Abrahams
• Solution to Last Issueís Puzzler
• Ask Symmetra        Scientist/SupermodelSymmetra
• Bends on the Learning Curve      Richard Lederer
• Spot-the-Typos Contest

Cartoons & Poetry

• Dinosaur Brain Surgery      Nick Kim
• Walt Whitman at Lunchtime        RobertR. Pascal

Miscellany

• WARNINGS: German AIR, Brief Time!
• Loopy Lawsuit ist Kaput
• Teachers' Guide
• AIR Stuff