Endeavors magazine: Contents, Spring 2008

features:

• what don’t we know? dark matter, holes in our genes, climatic calamity, population overload, and other questions that keep us up at night. [general sciences]
• the wizardry of green: to confound their enemies, plants conjure all kinds of tricks. [biology]
• murder in moscow: a guy walks into a bar and finds his wife with another man… [history]
• a bit of salt, a trace of life: what jack griffith unearthed near roswell, new mexico. [general sciences]
• what opened this gigantic hole? is it the sign of a parallel universe? [physics]
• the wide, tangled net: slavers prey on ghana’s children. [social sciences]
• virtual danger, safer places: computer simulations can help people survive war and disaster. [computer science]
• a fight to the death: making cancer kill itself. [health & med.]
• forever hung over: the brain, long after the drinking stops. [health & med.]
• a girl’s life and a glass half full: sugar and spice, but not everything’s nice. [people]
• where g-force and gray matter meet: heads up: bad tackles are bad news. [health & med.]
• living in a state of thirst: we need more than just rain to prevent future water shortages in north carolina. [political science]

welcome:

• from the editor.

overview:

• TV therapy for schizophrenia. [psychology]
• epsom salts help preemies. [health & med.]
• weight loss that works. [nutrition]
• housing the homeless. [social work]
• a suspect gene for faulty sperm. [biochemistry]
• everyone should count. [public health]
• brain size and autism. [psychiatry]
• thinking before drinking. [psychology]
• rerouting blood. [biochemistry]
• a virtual epidemic. [public health]

in print:

• the simple life. [visual arts]

endview:

• going to the galapagos.

©2008 Endeavors magazine, UNC-Chapel Hill.