http://discovermagazine.com Science, Technology, and The Future http://discovermagazine.com/2008/may/25-how-much-do-chemicals-affect-our-health An environmental crusader takes on special interests and investigates the possible causes of autism, asthma, and attention deficit disorder. Linda Marsa; photography by Jesse Chehak 2008-04-25T05:36:09Z Print Article http://discovermagazine.com/2008/apr/27-from-haitian-zombie-poison-to-inuit-knives Wade Davis, a real-life Indiana Jones, describes the Inuit "shit-knife": "As the feces began to freeze in his hand, he shaped it into an implement. When the blade started to take shape, he put a spray of saliva along the leading edge to sharpen it. He used it to butcher a dog. Improvised a sled with the dog’s rib cage and disappeared into the night." Jessica Ruvinsky 2008-03-27T03:33:49Z Print Article http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/21-george-schaller.s-grand-plan-to-save-the-marco-polo-sheep Schaller is building what may be the most ambitious wildlife park in the world, in the process saving the spectacular spiral-horned Marco Polo sheep. "Obviously humans are evolution’s greatest mistake," says the great conservationist. Marion Long, Photography by Doron Gild 2008-02-21T05:07:33Z Print Article http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/20-a-chat-with-george-w-bush.s-conscience Leon Kass helped the administration's stamp out federal embryonic stem cell research, calls the children of unwed parents "bastards," and has despaired about the loss of "female modesty" in our culture. Francis Wilkinson, Photography by Charles Ommanney 2008-02-20T06:18:20Z Print Article http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/your-brain-on-music-magnets-and-meth Meth gave Oliver Sacks the ability to identify people by scent. Music saved his life by practically dragging his beaten body down a mountain. But zapping his brain with magnets just gave him a headache. Susan Kruglinski 2008-01-14T07:32:36Z Print Article http://discovermagazine.com/2007/nov/the-man-who-imagined-wormholes-and-schooled-hawking Kip Thorne revolutionized physics, fixed up Contact, and straddled the Cold War divide. Susan Kruglinski 2007-11-09T09:57:16Z Web Article http://discovermagazine.com/2007/oct/the-granddaddy-of-space-colonization Fifty years after Sputnik, Burt Rutan leads a new space race. By Jack Hitt , Photography by Frank W. Ockenfels 3 2007-10-08T05:06:28Z Print Article http://discovermagazine.com/2007/sep/the-discover-interview The rules of language may reveal how our brains really work. Marion Long, Photograph by Sage Sohier 2007-09-17T10:11:32Z Print Article http://discovermagazine.com/2007/aug/discover-interview-director-iraqi-national-museum The archaeologist talks about the loss of artifacts and why he fled his homeland. Andrew Lawler 2007-09-24T12:28:42Z Print Article http://discovermagazine.com/2007/aug/william-gibson-discover-interview Gibson explains how the Internet is as primal as cities, ignorance can lead to profundity, and the real world switched places with cyberspace. Marion Long 2007-08-16T10:48:30Z Print Article http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jul/the-discover-interview-henrik-svensmark Physicist Henrik Svensmark says natural variations in solar activity are mostly to blame for global warming. It goes like this: more sun storms suppress more cosmic rays, which causes fewer clouds to form, allowing more sunlight to reach Earth. Carbon dioxide's role—and humanity's guilt—could be much smaller than we’ve been led to believe. Marion Long 2007-08-01T11:10:50Z Print Article http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/the-discover-interview-david-brin Brin says, "Respect the masses. Nearly all futuristic movies and novels seem to wallow in the same smug assumption that most people are fools. This stereotype led content owners to envision the Internet as a delivery conduit to sell movies to passive couch potatoes." David Kushner, photograph by Brigitte Sire 2007-08-01T11:13:10Z Print Article http://discovermagazine.com/2007/may/the-discover-interview-marc-hauser Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser says evolution hardwired us to tell right from wrong as naturally as we understand language. But here's the confusing part: It also gave us a lot of wiggle room. Josie Glausiusz Photograph by Doron Gild 2007-08-01T11:25:39Z Print Article http://discovermagazine.com/2007/apr/the-discover-interview-paul-allen The cofounder of Microsoft, one of the richest people in the world, is throwing his fortune at science ventures that would make Jules Verne and Stanley Kubrick proud. Evan Ratliff 2007-08-02T07:19:27Z Print Article http://discovermagazine.com/2007/apr/raw-data-beacon-bird-of-climate-change Penguin poop reveals secrets of the Antarctic climate. Josie Glausiusz 2007-08-02T07:20:55Z Print Article