How Can You Tell If a Spider Is Dead? and More Moments of Science

DON GLASS is Special Projects Director at Indiana University's public radio station WFIU-FM and the radio producer of A Moment of Science.

• Partial Table of ContentsThe Shape of the EarthA Rising FastballPine Tar Home RunsThe Force of a TornadoAnemiaNewton, Tennis, and the Nature of LightStereo in 1881A Water MagnifierBowled Over By a Sound WaveHow Do You Know If a Spider is Dead?Degradable PlasticsA Molecular Soccer MatchConversation at a Crowded PartyBlood-lettingGood Science, Bad ResultsTickling the Funny BonePutting South on TopLearning to TalkBaby's First StepsPackaging for the BirdsThe Roots of "Algebra"Morality and NutritionMoral Fiber in Whole Wheat BreadWhat Temperature Boils Down ToThe Fable of Centrifugal ForceSavoring the AromaSalting Your FoodWhy Human Milk Is Low in IronRadiation, a Word of Many MeaningsBabies on TreadmillsA Ticklish QuestionBicycles, Footballs, and Space ShuttlesThe Shape of a RaindropRings of LightMaking Water in the DesertCracks at Right AnglesPouring Coffee on a PlaneUsing Purple Cabbage As a pH IndicatorCooking with AlloysThe Legacy of the DodoThe Musical BeanBenjamin Franklin Drops a DollarFrom One Cell to ManyCologne and the Blue SkyFather Determines SexThe Monarch Butterfly's Poison PillAnimal or Plant?Approaching the Dew Point You Can't Heat an ice CubeMeasuring Altitude with a ThermometerRelying on BacteriaInvention of the Vacuum CleanerWater Is Hard to HeatHumidity, Relative to What?The "Weightlessness of Space"The Mystery of ProteinsWho Can Drink Milk?Reflections in the WaterHalf Heads, Half TailsSpiders Don't Get Caught in Their Own WebsFirst Elementary particlePillbugs Live in Damp PlacesCloud SeedingRadarCoriolis EffectIllusion in a Coffee CupWhy Are Clouds White?Dimples in GolfballsNight VisionSeeing StarsWhere Do All Those Calories Go?Some Like It HotWhen You Eat an Egg Are You Eating a Baby Chick?Flipping the Switch for DigestionHealing Elbows and EyeballsQuicksandLanguage Production and Speech ErrorsWhy is Teflon Slippery?Your Genetic CookbookNumber Crunching at the Electronic FeastHot and Cold Chirping CricketsWhen a Boy's Voice ChangesHow Dogs EatBiodiversity and Genetic EngineeringWhy Ice Is Not SlipperyFighting AIDS, Fighting EvolutionThe Shape of Lightning BoltsBugs in Cake MixesWhy It's Hard to Burn One LogMushrooms and Rocket FuelWhere do the socks go?