October 1998

The Fiscal Frontier

Over the past three millennia, money has had many incarnations, but none--most likely--as strange as what is yet to come. We asked a group of thinkers to cast their eyes toward the future and describe what they envision.

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October

Departments

Autumn Showers

Fall features four meteor showers for your evening enjoyment.
by Bob Berman

Vital Signs: Snowed

ER doctors know when stories fit and when they don't. And we ask questions until they do.
by Tony Dajer

How Spiders Make Their Silk

Explosive Cooking

Ordure of Magnitude

New Scope

A Treatise on Tumbling

Venerable Beads

Saurian Sore

Making Waves

Young Star

Hubble shows the violent birth of a massive star.

Microneedles

Alexander the Infected

The Cradle of Cash

When money arose in the ancient cities of Mesopotamia, it profoundly and permanently changed civilization.
by Heather Pringle