Email Author Margaret Wertheim

2002 Stories by Margaret Wertheim

• Margaret’s Feast

  published December 19, 2002

  Illustration by Dana Collins THE GREAT HUNGARIAN NUMBER THEORIST PAUL Erdös famously remarked that a mathematician is merely a machine for tu... More >>

• Fat, the Bastard

  published December 5, 2002

  More >>

• Here There Be Dragons

  published November 21, 2002

  Illustration by Dana Collins MEN OF THE MIDDLE AGES SADLY REALIZED THAT the great dragons were long since gone from European soil. Only feeble... More >>

• Creation Science

  published November 7, 2002

  Smilodon fatalis, the official state fossil of California, leans forward poised on his toes and ready to spring. Pity a poor pronghorn on the... More >>

• Communication Can Be Tough

  published October 24, 2002

  More >>

• Pharm Phresh

  published October 10, 2002

  More >>

• Demon Seed

  published September 19, 2002

  Illustration by Brian Stauffer STRANGE THINGS ARE HAPPENING among the corn rows, quite apart from crop circles. More and more foreign bits of... More >>

• Field Trips

  published August 29, 2002

  I GREW UP IN BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, A SUBTROPICAL landscape teeming with alien life. In the mornings wallabies bounded about the... More >>

• Clones and Codes

  published August 15, 2002

  What is life? What exactly is the essence of this incredible, irreducible phenomenon? Although Beltway politicians are not usually known for... More >>

• Farting Robots and Shitting Ducks

  published August 1, 2002

  The first of a new, biweekly column on science from the author of The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and Pythagoras’ Trousers: God... More >>

• The Big Rewrite

  published June 13, 2002

  SCIENCE IS DEAD! LONG LIVE SCIENCE! SUCH MIGHT be a summary of Stephen Wolfram's much-anticipated book, the boldly titled A New Kind of... More >>

• A Chemical Dependency

  published February 28, 2002

  Despite being published in the opening years of the 21st century, Oliver Sacks’ new book belongs more truly with the literature of the 19th... More >>

• 7 Singular Successesof Science

  published January 3, 2002

  1. Human Genes Researchers studying the human genome discover that we have just 30,000 genes — far fewer than previously thought. ... More >>

• Top 6 Science Blunders of the Bush Administration

  published January 3, 2002

  1. CO2 The president kicks off the year by reneging on his campaign promise to establish mandatory reduction targets for... More >>