Index to Hal's Picks of the Month
Topic, Title, and Author Indices are now available.This file modified 8/6/07
| 100 Books that Shaped A Century... | 11/99 |
| American Prometheus | 7/06 |
| Annus Mirabilis | 7/05 |
| Areas of My Expertise | 2/06 |
| Artful Dodgers | 2/01 |
| Art of the Catapult | 8/05 |
| Atmospheric Dust and Acid Rain | 12/96 |
| Annals of Archaeology: All the King's Sons | 1/96 |
| Apocalypse Pretty Soon | 7/00 |
| Backyard Ballistics | 3/02 |
| Beautiful Evidence | 5/07 |
| Biocapitalism | 12/97 |
| The Black Swan | 7/07 |
| Blink | 2/05 |
| The Book Nobody Read | 10/04 |
| The Book on the Bookshelf | 8/00 |
| Born to Rebel | 10/96 |
| Bottled Twaddle | 7/03 |
| Brunelleschi's Dome | 6/01 |
| Cantor's Dilemma | 4/06 |
| The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry | 10/05 |
| Catalyst | 8/97 |
| Chance and Necessity | 9/05 |
| Chemical Achievers | 2/98 |
| Chemical Misconceptions | 9/02 |
| Chemistry Connections | 2/00 |
| Chemists Learn to Preserve Historical Polymers... | 9/96 |
| The China Study | 12/05 |
| The Climate of Man | 5/05 |
| The Clock of the Long Now | 1/00 |
| Close to the Machine | 4/98 |
| The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint | 9/03 |
| The Computer Delusion | 7/97 |
| Collapse | 4/05 |
| Consilience | 12/98 |
| The Creation | 4/07 |
| Critical Mass | 1/06 |
| Crypto | 6/02 |
| The Curious LIfe of Robert Hooke | 9/04 |
| Darkening Sea | 11/06 |
| The Dead Zone | 10/97 |
| Debunked! | 7/04 |
| The Demon-Haunted World | 1/97 |
| Digital Diffraction | 4/96 |
| DNA as Destiny | 11/02 |
| Dr. Joe and What You Didn't Know | 12/04 |
| Drugstore Athlete | 9/01 |
| Eight Preposterous Propositions | 2/04 |
| Einstein: His Life and Universe | 6/07 |
| Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness | 7/05 |
| Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps | 12/03 |
| The Einstein File | 11/04 |
| Einstein Simplified | 2/04 |
| Elegant Solutions | 11/05 |
| Enatiomeric Excesses in Meteoric Amino Acids | 2/97 |
| The Endurance | 8/99 |
| The Enigmatic Battery of Baghdad | 5/96 |
| An Exact Value for Avogadro's Number | 3/07 |
| Explaining Science in the Classroom | 6/97 |
| Exploding Disk Cannons ... | 2/07 |
| Extreme Stargazing | 3/00 | The Fabric of the Cosmos | 6/04 |
| False Promise | 9/00 |
| Fantastic Realities | 5/06 |
| Faster | 10/99 |
| The Fate of Industrial Carbon Dioxide | 7/04 |
| Fermat's Enigma | 12/99 |
| The Flight From Science and Reason | 10/96 |
| The Fly in the Ointment | 6/05 |
| The Fly in the Ointment | 6/05 |
| A Fresh Look at Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics | 4/00 |
| A Friend of the Earth | 11/00 |
| Fritz Haber: Chemist, Nobel Laureate, German, Jew | 3/06 |
| Fuel's Gold | 9/06 |
| Fun with Physics | 6/03 |
| Galileo's Finger | 5/04 |
| The Genie in the Bottle | 7/03 |
| The God Delusion | 12/06 |
| The Golden Ratio | 8/06 |
| The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster | 6/06 |
| The Gravel Page | 1/96 |
| The Height Gap | 4/04 |
| The Heretic's Daughter | 9/99 |
| Hidden Evidence | 2/01 |
| High Stakes are for Tomatoes | 8/00 |
| The Honors Class | 10/02 |
| How to Predict Everything | 7/99 |
| Ice Memory | 1/02 |
| The Immortal Game | 1/07 |
| Impact Event at the Permian-Triassic Boundary... | 3/01 |
| Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution | 5/00 |
| Ingold's Influence as Historian and Educator | 3/97 |
| Ink Sandwiches, Electric Worms, etc. | 1/04 |
| Invention by Design | 1/98 |
| Is Combustion of Plastics Desirable? | 7/98 |
| The Isaac Newton School of Driving | 3/04 |
| The Island of the Colorblind | 3/98 |
| James Dewar, His Flask and Other Achievements | 3/96 |
| Labnotes: Experiments in Chemistry and Jazz | 4/99 |
| The Limelight | 9/97 |
| The Looking Glass | 1/00 |
| Longitude | 7/96 |
| The Lying Stones of Marrakech | 1/01 |
| Maintaining Diversity in Science | 4/96 |
| The Map that Changed the World | 4/02 |
| A Mathematician at the Ballpark | 5/05 |
| A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper | 3/96 |
| The Meaning of It All: Reflections of a Citizen-Scientist | 4/00 |
| The Measure of All Things | 3/03 |
| Measuring America | 4/03 |
| Medicine on Mars | 2/00 |
| Molecules at an Exhibition | 7/98 |
| A Moment on Earth | 9/96 |
| The Mosquito Killer | 7/01 |
| The Most Dangerous Wave | 8/95 |
| The Myth of Fingerprints | 11/00 |
| The Myth of Scientific Literacy | 6/96 |
| My Turn: Making the Grade | 6/96 |
| The National Science Education Standards | 2/96 |
| The Naturalist | 11/95 |
| Naturally Dangerous | 10/01 |
| Nine Crazy Ideas in Science | 12/01 |
| Nitric Oxide and the Control of Firefly Flashing | 7/01 |
| Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation | 7/95 |
| Observation of Interference Between Bose Condensates | 2/97 |
| The Odds of That | 2/97 |
| Off the Planet | 5/01 |
| One Good Turn | 7/02 |
| Our Machines, Ourselves | 5/97 |
| The Periodic Table | 10/06 |
| The Periodic Table and the Electron | 11/97 |
| The Physics of Gridlock | 12/00 |
| Plastic: The Making of a Synthetic Century | 12/96 |
| Polarized Starlight ... | 6/99 |
| Profile: The Lord of the Flies | 4/99 |
| Radar, Hula Hooks, and Playful Pigs | 5/03 |
| The Radioactive Boy Scout | 10/98 |
| Reinventing Biology | 1/03 |
| Relativity and the Global Positioning System | 5/02 |
| Report of the National Commission on Mathematics and Science for the 21st Century | 10/00 |
| Rethinking Science as a Career | 10/95 |
| The Revealing Role of Pressure... | 8/98 |
| River Out of Eden | 4/97 |
| The Rock From Mars | 11/06 |
| School Girls | 8/95 |
| Schoolhouse Crock | 8/07 |
| Schroedinger's Kittens ... | 5/96 |
| Science and the Perils of a Parable | 1/99 |
| The Science of Harry Potter | 8/03 |
| Science Friction | 3/05 |
| Search for Past Life on Mars ... | 9/96 |
| The Search for Sweet | 5/06 |
| The Search for Superstrings ... | 3/99 |
| Secret Knowledge | 2/02 |
| Seven Experiments That Could Change the World | 8/96 |
| The Shaken-Soda Syndrome | 4/01 |
| Silent Sperm | 1/96 |
| The Snowflake | 1/05 |
| Some Heretical Thoughts ... | 4/96 |
| The Spoor of Spooks Revisited | 11/95 |
| Stopping Time | 6/00 |
| Strange Brains and Genius | 9/98 |
| Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads | 12/02 |
| The Sun in the Church | 9/99 |
| Teaching Chemistry Imbedded in History | 3/97 |
| Technology special reports | 11/97 |
| That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles | 11/03 |
| The Thermal Warriors | 5/97 |
| The 13th Element | 11/01 |
| To Light Such a Candle | 6/98 |
| Traces of the Past | 5/99 |
| Transforming Matter | 8/01 |
| Uncle Tungsten | 10/03 |
| Under Pressure | 2/96 |
| The Unintended Consequences of Hyperhydration | 5/07 |
| The Universal History of Numbers | 9/00 |
| The Universe in a Nutshell | 5/02 |
| Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly... | 3/02 |
| Vermeer's Camera | 2/02 |
| Visual Explanations | 2/02 |
| Visual Explanations | 5/98 |
| Voodoo Science | 7/00 |
| Waiting for Aphrodite | 1/02 |
| The Water is Wide | 9/95 |
| What Einstein Told His Cook | 8/04 |
| What If You Could Unscramble an Egg | 11/96 |
| What Remains to be Discovered... | 11/98 |
| When Hazy Skies are Rising | 4/97 |
| Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder | 12/95 |
| Why Disposable Diapers are like Microchips | 11/01 |
| Why McDonald's French Fries Taste So Good | 1/01 |
| Why People Believe Weird Things | 10/97 |
| Why Shake Your Fever Thermometer? | 3/98 |
| Women in Chemistry | 8/98 |
| World Records in Chemistry | 2/00 |
| Alexander, Caroline | 8/99 |
| Anderson, M. H. | 7/95 |
| Andrews, M. R. | 2/97 |
| Alder, Ken | 3/03 |
| Ashby, Neil | 5/02 |
| Ashcroft, Neil W. | 8/98 |
| Asher, Don | 4/99 |
| Asma, Stephen T. | 12/02 |
| Atkins, Peter | 5/04 |
| Aylesworth, Kevin | 10/95 |
| Bacon, W. Stevenson | 11/95 |
| Bailey, James | 5/97 |
| Ball, Jennifer | 8/97 |
| Ball, Philip | 11/05, 1/06 |
| Beal, Denton | 9/97 |
| Becker, Luann | 3/01 |
| Belkin, Lisa | 8/02 |
| Benfey, Theodor | 3/97 |
| Bilger, Burkhard | 4/04, 5/06 |
| Bird, Kai | 7/06 |
| Bowden, Mary Ellen | 2/98 |
| Boyle, T. Coraghessan | 11/00 |
| Brand, Stewart | 1/00 |
| Broch, Henri | 7/04 |
| Budiansky, Stephen | 12/00 |
| Borman, Stu | 1/03 |
| Campbell, T. Colin | 12/05 |
| Campbell II, Thomas M. | 12/05 |
| Carlson, Shawn | 4/97 |
| Charpak, Georges | 7/04 |
| Chillier, Xavier D. | 8/96 |
| Chubin, Daryl E. | 10/95 |
| Clark, Stuart | 6/99 |
| Clemett, Simon J. | 8/96 |
| Cole, K. C. | 6/03 |
| Collman, James P. | 10/01 |
| Commoner, Barry | 2/02 |
| Conroy, Pat | 11/00 |
| Conroy, Pat | 9/95 |
| Coppola, Brian P. | 5/96 |
| Crane, H. Richard | 3/98 |
| Criddle, Craig | 10/05 |
| Cronin, J. R. | 2/97 |
| Dawkins, Richard | 4/97, 12/06 |
| Diamond, Jared | 4/05 |
| Diaz, David | 2/96 |
| Djerassi, Carl | 4/06 |
| Downie, Neil A. | 3/02, 1/04, 11/02 |
| Durfee, D. S. | 2/97 |
| Easterbrook, Gregg | 9/96 |
| Eggert, Gerhard | 4/96 |
| Ehrlich, Robert | 11/96, 12/01, 2/04 |
| Emsley, John | 7/98, 11/01 |
| Ensher, J. R. | 7/95 |
| Faust, Rudiger | 2/00 |
| Fenichell, Stephen | 12/96 |
| Ferris, Timothy | 7/99 |
| Feynmann, Richard P. | 4/00 |
| Fletcher, Kevin | 7/98 |
| Fox, Ronald F. | 3/07 |
| Freedman, David H. | 3/00 |
| Galison, Peter | 12/03 |
| Gelertner, David | 5/97 |
| Gibson, Everett K. | 8/96 |
| Gingerich, Owen | 10/04 |
| Gladwell, Malcolm | 10/97, 1/99, 7/01, 9/01, 11/01, 2/05 |
| Gleick, James | 10/99 |
| John Glenn Commission | 10/00 |
| Gonick, Larry | 10/05 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | 1/01 |
| Greene, Brian | 6/04 |
| Gribbin, John | 5/96, 3/99, 7/05 |
| Groopman, Jerome | 2/00 |
| Gross, Paul R. | 10/96 |
| Gurstelle, William | 3/02 8/05 |
| Harris, Sidney | 2/04 |
| Hawking, Stephen | 5/02 |
| Hayes, Brian | 4/96 |
| Heard, Alex | 7/00 |
| Hedin, Lars O. | 12/96 |
| Heilbron, J. L. | 9/99 |
| Heinrich, Berndt | 5/97 |
| Hemley, Russell J. | 8/98 |
| Henderson, Bobby | 6/06 |
| Highfield, Roger | 8/03 |
| Hill, Theodore P. | 3/07 |
| Hitt, Jack | 5/97 |
| Hockney, David | 2/02 |
| Hodgman, John | 2/06 |
| Hoffman, Roald | 5/96 |
| Hubbell, Sue | 1/02 |
| Ifrah, Georges | 9/00 |
| Isaacson, Walter | 6/07 |
| Jardine, Lisa | 5/00, 9/04 |
| Jerome, Fred | 11/04 |
| Kagan, David | 5/01 |
| Karukstis, Kerry K. | 2/00 |
| Kelly, Katy | 9/00 |
| Ketterle, W. | 2/97 |
| King, Ross | 6/01 |
| Knauss, Gunter | 2/00 |
| Kolbert, Elizabeth | 1/02, 5/05,11/06 |
| Kress, Gunther | 6/97 |
| Kurn, D. M. | 2/97 |
| Laidler, Keith J. | 6/98 |
| Lambert, Joseph B. | 5/99 |
| Lanier, Jaron | 5/97 |
| Lansing, Alfred | 8/99 |
| Levere, Trevor H. | 8/01 |
| Levitt, Norman | 10/96 |
| Levy, Steven | 6/02 |
| Lewis, Edward S. | 2/99 |
| Libbrecht, Kenneth | 1/05 |
| Lieb, Elliot H. | 10/96 |
| Lieb, Elliot H. | 4/00 |
| Likens, Gene E. | 12/96 |
| Linenger, Jerry | 5/01 |
| Linklater, Andro | 4/03 |
| Livio, Mario | 8/06 |
| Maddox, John | 12/98 |
| Maechling, Claude R. | 8/96 |
| Martins, Isabel | 6/97 |
| Matthews, M. R. | 7/95 |
| McCrone, Walter C. | 2/01 |
| McGillicuddy, Kieran | 6/97 |
| McKay, David S. | 8/96 |
| McPhee, John | 1/96 |
| Miesner, H.-J. | 2/97 |
| Monod, Jacques | 9/05 |
| Mooallem, Jon | 5/07 |
| Morrison, Phillip and Phylis | 11/99 |
| Murray, David W. | 8/95 |
| National Academy of Sciences | 2/96 |
| Ogborn, Jon | 6/97 |
| Oppenheimer, Todd | 7/97 |
| Orenstein, Peggy | 8/95 |
| Owen, David | 2/01 |
| Park, Robert | 7/00 |
| Parker, Barry | 3/04 |
| Paulos, John Allen | 3/96 |
| Pearce, Fred | 9/06 |
| Petroski, Henry | 1/98, 8/00 |
| Piasecki, Bruce | 7/98 |
| Pickover, Clifford A. | 9/98 |
| Pizzarello, S. | 2/97 |
| Preston, Douglas | 1/96 |
| Quadbeck-Seeger, Hans-Jurgen | 2/00 |
| Rainey, David | 7/98 |
| Rassmussen, Patricia | 1/05 |
| Rayner-Canham, Marelene and Geoffrey | 8/98 |
| Rigden, John S. | 7/05 |
| Romanek, Christopher S. | 8/96 |
| Ross, Ken | 6/05 |
| Rybczynski, Witold | 7/02 |
| Sacks, Oliver | 3/98, 10/03 |
| Sagan, Carl | 1/97 |
| Sawyer, Kathy | 11/06 |
| Scerri, Eric R. | 11/97, 10/06 |
| Schlosser, Eric | 1/01 |
| Schrag, Peter | 8/00, 8/07 |
| Schultz, Peter G. et al. | 1/03 |
| Schwarcz, Joe | 5/03, 7/03, 11/03, 12/04, 6/05 |
| Science | 4/96 |
| Shamos, Morris H. | 6/96 |
| Sheldon, James | 6/00 |
| Sheldrake, Rupert | 8/96 |
| Shenk, David | 12/97, 1/07 |
| Shermer, Michael | 10/97, 7/03, 3/05 |
| Sherwin, Martin J. | 7/06 |
| Siebert, Charles | 5/97 |
| Siemeling, Ulrich | 2/00 |
| Silverstein, Ken | 10/98 |
| Singh, Simon | 12/99 |
| Sobel, Dava | 7/96, 9/99 |
| Soulen Jr., Robert J. | 3/96 |
| Steadman, Phillip | 2/02 |
| Stinson, Stephen C. | 9/96 |
| Stoltzenberg, Dietrich | 3/06 |
| Sulloway, Frank J. | 10/96 |
| Taber, Keith | 9/02 |
| Takahashi, Taro | 7/04 |
| Taleb, Nassim Nicholas | 7/07 |
| Thomas-Keprta, Kathie L. | 8/96 |
| Tobias, Sheila | 10/95 |
| Townsend, C. G. | 2/97 |
| Trimmer, Barry A. et al. | 7/01 |
| Tufte, Edward R. | 5/98, 9/03, 5/07 |
| Ullman, Ellen | 4/98 |
| Vali, Hojatollah | 8/96 |
| Van Hecke, Gerald R. | 2/00 |
| Wall Street Journal | 11/97 |
| Weiner, Jonathan | 4/99 |
| Weschler, Lawrence | 12/95, 1/00 |
| Wieman, E. A. Cornell | 7/95 |
| Wiesenfeld, Kurt | 6/96 |
| Wilczek, Frank | 5/06 |
| Wilson, Edward O. | 11/95, 12/98, 4/07 |
| Winchester, Simon | 4/02 |
| Wolke, Robert L. | 8/04 |
| Wright, Lawrence | 1/96 |
| Yandell, Benjmain H. | 10/02 |
| Yngvason, Jakob | 4/00 |
| Zare, Richard N. | 8/96 |
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