DEPARTMENTS 



4 THE NATURAL MOMENT 



Mantle in Blue 



Photograph by Paul Sutherland 



8 UP FRONT 



Editor's Notebook 



10 CONTRIBUTORS 

 12 LETTERS 



14 SAMPLINGS 



News from Nature 



18 NATURALIST AT LARGE 



Bushels of Bots 

 David A. Barraclough 



22 UNIVERSE 



"Unfit for Vision" 



Neil deGrasse Tyson 



28 BIOMECHANICS 



Tough As Shells 



Adam Summers 



54 THIS LAND 



Along the Pothole Trails 

 Robert H. Mohlenbrock 



56 BOOKSHELF 



Laurence A. Marschali 



60 nature.net 



Ben's 300th 

 Robert Anderson 



62 OUT THERE 



Shades of the Past 

 Charles Liu 



67 THE SKY IN JUNE 



Joe Htio 



68 AT THE MUSEUM 



72 ENDPAPER 



Stress and the City 

 Robert M. Sapolshy 













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