Features
ON THE NOËTIC PRINCIPLE
Vernadsky and Dirichlet’s Principle
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
A review prompted by an examination of an English translation of V.I. Vernadsky’s paper on biogeochemistry.

On Some Fundamental Problems of Biogeochemistry
(pdf of full text)
V.I.Vernadsky
A 1936 commentary on the ongoing work of the Laboratory of Biogeochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

Amplitude Quantization As an Elementary Property Of Macroscopic Vibrating Systems
(pdf of full text)

Jonathan Tennenbaum

The discovery of a new physical principle, argumental oscillations, pokes holes in textbook physics and emphasizes the need to break out of the shackles of formal mathematics and of Newtonianism in general.

NUCLEAR REPORT
The Beauty of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
(pdf of full text)Marjorie Mazel Hecht

BIOLOGY & MEDICINE

Despite Much Talk, Bird Flu Is Spreading
Christine Craig

Departments
EDITORIAL
Hydrogen: First Element Of Economic Recovery
Laurence Hecht

NEWS BRIEFS

RESEARCH COMMUNICATION

A Keplerian Solution to The Quasicrystal Problem
Laurence Hecht
(pdf of full text)

BOOKS
La Cola del Dragon (The Tail of the Dragon)
by Paul Gallez
Reviewed by Rick Sanders

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D An IMAX film
Reviewed by Marsha Freeman