About Engineering and Science
Engineering & Science is a quarterly magazine, founded by the Caltech Alumni Association in 1937. Produced by the Caltech Office of Marketing and Communications, its goal is to present to a scientifically literate audience a lively picture of the intellectual life and research activities at Caltech and to promote interest in science and scientific issues. Its circulation of 20,000 includes alumni, faculty, students, JPL staff, donors, high schools, libraries, science media, and government leaders.
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TEDx Caltech—January 14, 2011
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Features:
Be Aware of Your Inner Zombie
by Andrew Porterfield
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"Like It or Not, We Are Living on This Planet"
by Heidi Aspaturian
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Podcast: Joe Kirschvink on Ancient Climates
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Sex, Flies, and Videotape
by Douglas L. Smith
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Random Walk:
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Having a Blast
On the Map
Why Do We Sleep?
The MKIDs Are Alright
Operation: Mars Antenna • pdf •
Books
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had it Coming by Mike Brown
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Global Trends, Global Futures: Living with Declining Living Standards by Thayer Scudder
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Disaster Deferred: How New Science Is Changing Our View of Earthquake Hazards in the Midwest by Seth Stein
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Red Star, Crescent Moon: A Muslim-Jewish Love Story by Robert A. Rosenstone
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The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System by David Baker and Todd Ratcliff
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Predicting the Unpredictable: The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction by Susan Hough
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Smogtown by Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly
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Obituaries
Jerrold E. Marsden
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Ralph W. Kavanagh
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Thad Vreeland, Jr.
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