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2008 March / April
Mind matters

Meet your new brain
Artificial intelligence flunks out, Second Life, and beyond DNA

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China's Alaska

Hundreds of miles west of the Great Wall, amid desert camels and canvas-covered yurts, it's natural to wonder: "Can I really be in China?"

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Sax man

Jazz legend Sonny Rollins is still improvising—brilliantly.

Minding the brain

New discoveries suggest a networked brain that loves to make and break rules, and thrives on mistakes.

Do you have free will?

An interview with philosopher John Searle by Marilyn Berlin Snell.

Mind medicine

Can meditation produce positive molecular changes in the brain?

Nurture into nature

Can changes based on nutrition, toxics, or a mother's touch by biologically inherited?

Faking it

Second Life offers its "residents" a chance to invent a whole new life for themselves. Can it deliver?

Plus: Will Second Life survive?

Family violence

Guatemalan novelist Sylvia Sellers-Garc'a explores the un-nameable.

Sather Gate

Teen doc

Dr. Barbara Staggers offers a different kind of medicine to inner-city kids: love




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