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No. 233, December 30, 2002


Features

Our Genius Problem
Why this obsession with the word, with the idea, and with the people on whom we've bestowed the designation?
By Marjorie Garber

Web Searches Take Cultural Pulse
By Leander Kahney, Wired News


Innovation

Liver: clipped, zapped and snapped


Invention

Inventor creates eyesight substitute


Ideas

The Origin of Religions, From a Distinctly Darwinian View

Human, mouse shared common ancestor 75 million years ago

The shape of playthings to come


Creatives at Play

Museum installation monitors Internet

Human Kidneys Created In Mice

Virtual world will run on real cash

Japan goes barking mad for dog toy

Rat-Brained Robot

State Supreme Court judges take issue with rhyming colleague
 


Creatives at Work

Shoes and sheets get wired

DNA Scanner Tells What Ails

New Billboards Sample Radios as Cars Go By, Then Adjust

Scientists try to copy butterflies' agility

Airships tested as telecom beacons

Lasers reveal rewiring of the living brain

UPI Science Update

 

Thanks to Dale Puffenberger and Chuck Frey for help with this edition of Heads Up!

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