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Featured in the Fall 2001 Issue Vol. 14, No. 3

FEATURES

The Scientific Renaissance of the Medieval Cathedrals
Philippe Messer
Far from being an uninterrupted Dark Age, the Middle Ages was the period when science was reborn in the West, its flower being the cathedral movement. The cathedrals were schools, and their building sites laboratories of invention. The cathedral movement was the prelude to the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th Centuries.

ANTI-GRAVITY: MYTH OR REALITY/PART 2
The Paradoxes of Moving Electricity
Rémi Saumont
Quantum theory can still not explain some elementary facts about the behavior of electrons in a wire or a condenser. The author, a retired senior researcher and expert in electronics, poses a few of the paradoxes involved.

NASA’S HYPER-X
Hypersonic Flight Ready for Take Off
Marsha Freeman
NASA’s new Hyper-X program combines aircraft and rocket technology to develop a system that will carry more weight, at less cost, into space.


DEPARTMENTS
EDITORIAL
Why You Don’t Believe Fermat’s Principle
Laurence Hecht

The Political Issue Of ‘Human Cloning’
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

LETTERS
Prince Bernhard Was a Nazi!

On the Ampère-Gauss-Weber Electrodynamics

More on Weber’s Electrodynamics

Deregulation and the Invisible Hand

NEWS BRIEFS

BOOKS
The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell, and Colin Tudge,
Reviewed by Colin M. Lowry

Ptolemy's Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters by J. Lennart Berggren and Alexander Jones
Reviewed by Rick Sanders

Three books for young readers

NEWS
IN MEMORIAM
An Appreciation of the Work of Fusion Scientist Daniel Wells
Charles B. Stevens

Remembering Bob Stevenson, Oceanographer and Friend
Marjorie Mazel Hecht

NUCLEAR REPORT
The Signficant Health Benefits Of Nuclear Radiation
Jerry M. Cuttler, D.Sc.

ANCIENT DISCOVERY
Ancient Navigators Could Have Measured Longitude!
Rick Sanders

Building and Using Maui’s Tanawa
Bertram Cooper

ENVIRONMENT
Hot Air Over Wind Energy
Greg Murphy

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