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Winter 2011

ON THE COVER:
A two-stage suborbital sounding rocket launched by NASA into a brilliant aurora display above northern Alaska on Feb. 18, 2012, from the Poker Flat Research Range near Fairbanks. The Black Brant IX rocket carried an experiment from Cornell University to study space weather. Photo by Lee Wingfield/NASA.
Cover design by Alan Yue.
 

WINTER 2011-2012 Issue
FEATURES
meerkat telescope
SKA Africa

OUT OF THE SHADOWS
The Emerging Science of Earthquake Prediction
Oyang Teng

Non-seismic signals have been observed anywhere from weeks to days and hours leading up to an earthquake, indicating that there are much larger physical processes before the rupture of a fault—and that science can discover these.
INTERVIEW: DIMITAR OUZOUNOV
Earthquake Precursors:
‘The Science is Ready, and Needs to Be Applied’


A Geophysicist Dimitar Ouzounov, a leading figure in non-seismic earthquake precursor research, is interviewed by Oyang Teng.

INTERVIEW: SEYIA UYEDA AND PANYIOTIS VAROTSOS
Approaching the Critical Point in Earthquake Prediction

Professors Seyia Uyeda and Paniyotis Varotsos, who have collaborated on earthquake prediction for three decades, are interviewed by Oyang Teng.
Dr. Akira Tokuhiro
Akira TokuhiroUniversity of Idaho
antikythera
NEWS
IN MEMORIAM

LYNN MARGULIS (1938-2011)
Pioneering American Biologist and
Geoscientist

Mark A.S. McMenamin
pdf
BIOLOGY & MEDICINE

Evidence-Based Medicine: Treating by Chance
Cathy M. Helgason, M.D.
pdf
NUCLEAR REPORT

INTERVIEW: DR. AKIRA TOKUHIRO
Fukushima, Science, and Radiation
ASTRONOMY REPORT

How to Construct an Astrolabe, Using Your PC
Christine Craig
pdf
GEOLOGY

EVIDENCE FOR A TRIASSIC KRAKEN
Unusual Arrangement of Bones at Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada
Mark A.S. McMenamin
SPACE REPORT: SOUTH AFRICA

International Astronautical Congress, Cape Town: Looking to the Heavens to Develop Africa
Marsha Freeman
INTERVIEW: NALEDI PANDOR
South Africa in Space: Ending ‘Afro-Pessimism’
INTERVIEW: DR. SANDILE MALINGA
Space in South Africa: A Change in Paradigm
INTERVIEW: DR. PETER MARTINEZ
We See an African ‘Astronaissance’
INTERVIEW: DR. LEE-ANNE MCKINNELL
What Is the Weather in Space?
DEPARTMENTS
EDITORIAL
Fusion and Foreknowledge

Fusion Breakthrough at NIF

Laurence Hecht
BOOKS

Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer—and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets
by Jo Marchant
Reviewed by W. Leonard Taylor, M.D.

Out of This World: New Mexico’s
Contributions to Space Travel

by Loretta Hall
Reviewed by Glenn Mesaros

Women Astronomers: Reaching For the Stars
by Mabel Armstrong
Reviewed by Steve Carr


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