eprintid: 717 rev_number: 14 eprint_status: archive userid: 205 dir: disk0/00/00/07/17 datestamp: 2010-09-21 00:16:54 lastmod: 2019-10-03 22:52:58 status_changed: 2010-09-21 00:16:53 type: journal_issue metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 title: Engineering and Science, Volume 73:3, Summer 2010 ispublished: pub subjects: journal_issue full_text_status: public date: 2010 date_type: published publication: Engineering and Science volume: 73 number: 3 publisher: California Institute of Technology place_of_pub: Pasadena, CA id_number: CaltechES:73.3.0 refereed: FALSE issn: 0013-7812 editors_name: Smith, Douglas L. editors_id: Smith-D-L official_url: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:73.3.0 rights: You are granted permission for individual, educational, research and non-commercial reproduction, distribution, display and performance of this work in any format. collection: CaltechES toc:
Sustainable Energy—Without the Hot Air
by David Mackay
The numbers used in the sustainable-energy debate often confuse more than clarify. This simple common-sense analysis may help.
Discovering New Worlds
by Marcus Y. Woo
In an interview, astronomer John Johnson talks about the search for new planets and the rapidly evolving field of exoplanet astronomy.
Addicted to Nicotine
by Michael Torrice
Instead of sending you into convulsions, a cigarette can mellow you out and sharpen your mind. How nicotine works its magic in your brain is now becoming clear.
In Memoriam: Andrew Lange, Hans W. Leipmann
Obituaries: R. David Middlebrook, Edwin S. Munger
Books — On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science by David Goodstein
citation: Engineering and Science, Volume 73:3, Summer 2010. [Journal Issue] https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:73.3.0