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Popular Science

Winter 2018
Magazine

This is the most exciting time to be alive in history. Discovery and innovation are reshaping the world around us, and Popular Science makes even the most complex ideas entertaining and accessible. We deliver the future now.

BRACE YOURSELF

CONTRIBUTORS

the history of bailing out

a recipe for rigor mortis

one very deadly day in april

want to raise an all-star? let them play the field

the kids are all injured • Teens are increasingly having surgery to fix overused elbows.

he feels the burn so you don’t have to

the ultimate fear factory

Fright in the flesh • Alarm strikes your body within seconds of recognizing a threat. Here’s what’s going down.

asteroid smackdown

death in transit

what lies beneath

the plagues we made

GUARDIAN OF THE GALAXY

RIDE OR DIE

LUMBER PARTY!

SURVIVE AN AVALANCHE

BLADE STUNNERS

THE FAST AND THE FLURRY-EST

DRESS FOR DISTRESS

ESCAPE ARTISTS

BUMPY RIDE

CAN WE PREDICT FLU OUTBREAKS?

BREAKOUT! • CAN SUPER-INTELLIGENT AI ESCAPE OUR CONTROL AND DESTROY US? SKYPE CO-FOUNDER JAAN TALLINN PUTS MONEY ON IT—AND ON FINDING A SOLUTION.

ALARM WILL SOUND • As long as nuclear power exists, there will be attempts to swipe its radioactive fuel. Meet the people trying to keep that from happening.

IT WILL BE OUR FAULT • Seismologist Lucy Jones is on a crusade to prepare us—and our infrastructure—for the next Big One.

DEADLIEST CATCH • VENOMS THAT CAN KILL CAN ALSO CURE

How a cone snail kills its prey • Different species hunt different kinds of food, but they all pack a lethal punch.

FOOD FATALE • THE DESIRE TO BE THIN CAN TURN TRENDY DIETS INTO LETHAL WEAPONS.

A LONG HISTORY OF QUICK FIXES • FAD DIETS CAN SPEED WEIGHT LOSS BUT HAVE RISKY SIDE EFFECTS

EAT BAD GOOD • THE BEST WAYS TO CHEAT, ACCORDING TO SCIENCE

BORN [NOT] TO RUN • POLICE CRUISERS AND GETAWAY CARS ARE RACING TOWARD AN UNKNOWN FUTURE.

The Chemical Weapons DETECTIVES • TOXIC SUBSTANCES, IN WAR AND ASSASSINATION, ARE HARD TO T RACE. ELITE CHEMISTS ARE HELPING ID THE PERPS.

AGENTS OF DEATH • There are four major categories of chemical weapon, each targeting a vital bodily function.

A HISTORY OF CHEMICAL WAR • For thousands of years, people have used hazardous chemicals to kill, injure, and incapacitate one another. As our understanding of human biology has increased, we’ve gotten better at purifying and packaging weapons designed to sabotage it. Here is a brief timeline of this terrible ingenuity.

BUILT TO OUT LAST • AS CLIMATE CHANGE INTENSIFIES, ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS, AND SCIENTISTS ARE DEVISING BETTER WAYS TO DEAL WITH ALMOST ANYTHING NATURE THROWS OUR WAY.

STREET-DRAINING TILES

TORNADORESISTANT HOUSE

FLOATING HOUSES

The WIZARD of AWE • YOU SEE KEN MILLER’S SMOKE DISPLAYS AT NFLGAMES AND AIR SHOWS. WHAT YOU DON’T SEE ARE THE EXPLOSIONS, DIY ROCKETS, AND SMOLDERING CRATERS THAT SPECKLE HIS MINNESOTA FARM. HIS PERSONAL PYROTECHNIC EXPERIMENTS DONT’S BELONG ON THE SO-YARD LINE OR IN ANYONE’S BACKYARD.

from bank clerk to arctic explorer • ANN DANIELS, WORLD-RECORD-BREAKING POLAR EXPLORER

burning bush • CRYSTAL KOLDEN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT THE COLLEGE OF NATURAL RESOURCES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO

sit, stay, sniff • JENNIFER DAY, BIOLOGIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE

inside daredevil brains • JANE E. JOSEPH, NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR AT MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

scooping lava from active volcanoes • JESSICA JOHNSON, GEOPHYSICS RESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA

peril in the lab • You might expect...


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Frequency: One time Pages: 136 Publisher: Camden Media Inc. Edition: Winter 2018

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This is the most exciting time to be alive in history. Discovery and innovation are reshaping the world around us, and Popular Science makes even the most complex ideas entertaining and accessible. We deliver the future now.

BRACE YOURSELF

CONTRIBUTORS

the history of bailing out

a recipe for rigor mortis

one very deadly day in april

want to raise an all-star? let them play the field

the kids are all injured • Teens are increasingly having surgery to fix overused elbows.

he feels the burn so you don’t have to

the ultimate fear factory

Fright in the flesh • Alarm strikes your body within seconds of recognizing a threat. Here’s what’s going down.

asteroid smackdown

death in transit

what lies beneath

the plagues we made

GUARDIAN OF THE GALAXY

RIDE OR DIE

LUMBER PARTY!

SURVIVE AN AVALANCHE

BLADE STUNNERS

THE FAST AND THE FLURRY-EST

DRESS FOR DISTRESS

ESCAPE ARTISTS

BUMPY RIDE

CAN WE PREDICT FLU OUTBREAKS?

BREAKOUT! • CAN SUPER-INTELLIGENT AI ESCAPE OUR CONTROL AND DESTROY US? SKYPE CO-FOUNDER JAAN TALLINN PUTS MONEY ON IT—AND ON FINDING A SOLUTION.

ALARM WILL SOUND • As long as nuclear power exists, there will be attempts to swipe its radioactive fuel. Meet the people trying to keep that from happening.

IT WILL BE OUR FAULT • Seismologist Lucy Jones is on a crusade to prepare us—and our infrastructure—for the next Big One.

DEADLIEST CATCH • VENOMS THAT CAN KILL CAN ALSO CURE

How a cone snail kills its prey • Different species hunt different kinds of food, but they all pack a lethal punch.

FOOD FATALE • THE DESIRE TO BE THIN CAN TURN TRENDY DIETS INTO LETHAL WEAPONS.

A LONG HISTORY OF QUICK FIXES • FAD DIETS CAN SPEED WEIGHT LOSS BUT HAVE RISKY SIDE EFFECTS

EAT BAD GOOD • THE BEST WAYS TO CHEAT, ACCORDING TO SCIENCE

BORN [NOT] TO RUN • POLICE CRUISERS AND GETAWAY CARS ARE RACING TOWARD AN UNKNOWN FUTURE.

The Chemical Weapons DETECTIVES • TOXIC SUBSTANCES, IN WAR AND ASSASSINATION, ARE HARD TO T RACE. ELITE CHEMISTS ARE HELPING ID THE PERPS.

AGENTS OF DEATH • There are four major categories of chemical weapon, each targeting a vital bodily function.

A HISTORY OF CHEMICAL WAR • For thousands of years, people have used hazardous chemicals to kill, injure, and incapacitate one another. As our understanding of human biology has increased, we’ve gotten better at purifying and packaging weapons designed to sabotage it. Here is a brief timeline of this terrible ingenuity.

BUILT TO OUT LAST • AS CLIMATE CHANGE INTENSIFIES, ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS, AND SCIENTISTS ARE DEVISING BETTER WAYS TO DEAL WITH ALMOST ANYTHING NATURE THROWS OUR WAY.

STREET-DRAINING TILES

TORNADORESISTANT HOUSE

FLOATING HOUSES

The WIZARD of AWE • YOU SEE KEN MILLER’S SMOKE DISPLAYS AT NFLGAMES AND AIR SHOWS. WHAT YOU DON’T SEE ARE THE EXPLOSIONS, DIY ROCKETS, AND SMOLDERING CRATERS THAT SPECKLE HIS MINNESOTA FARM. HIS PERSONAL PYROTECHNIC EXPERIMENTS DONT’S BELONG ON THE SO-YARD LINE OR IN ANYONE’S BACKYARD.

from bank clerk to arctic explorer • ANN DANIELS, WORLD-RECORD-BREAKING POLAR EXPLORER

burning bush • CRYSTAL KOLDEN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT THE COLLEGE OF NATURAL RESOURCES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO

sit, stay, sniff • JENNIFER DAY, BIOLOGIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE

inside daredevil brains • JANE E. JOSEPH, NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR AT MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

scooping lava from active volcanoes • JESSICA JOHNSON, GEOPHYSICS RESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA

peril in the lab • You might expect...


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