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Volume 30, Number 6
November/December 2006

• Buy this back issue
• Sound: Not as Simple as It Sounds
• Leakey Fights Church Campaign to Downgrade
• Center for Inquiry Launches Public Policy Office in Washington
• Latin American Conference Launches Federation of Centers
• Siege of ‘Little Green Men’
• The Devious Art of Improvising, Lesson One
• Searching to Noah Vale

SPECIAL ISSUE
SCIENCE + ART

Introduction

AUSTIN DACEY

The Humanities and Human Nature

STEVEN PINKER

Why We Read Fiction

LISA ZUNSHINE

View Masters

MARGARET S. LIVINGSTONE and BEVIL R. CONWAY

Nature Is Nowhere Rectangular

Galileo's Starry Messenger Meets Matisse's Le Guignon

EDWARD TUFTE

String Theory

CLIFFORD A. PICKOVER

Sound: Not as Simple as It Sounds

An Interview with Joshua Fineberg

AUSTIN DACEY

Creativity versus Skepticism within Science

V.S. RAMACHANDRAN

SPECIAL REPORT

Shame on Shamus Sham

JOE NICKELL

Columns

Editor's Note

Art, Science, and Creativity

News and Comment

• Leakey Fights Church Campaign to Downgrade Kenya Museum's Human Fossils
• Florida Medicaid to Cover Acupuncture
• Center for Inquiry Launches Public Policy Office in Washington
• Creationist Hovind's Legal Woes Continue
• Recent Deaths
• Death of a Demonologist: Ed Warren Dead at 79
• Latin American Conference Launches Federation of Centers

Investigative Files

Siege of 'Little Green Men': The 1955 Kelly, Kentucky, Incident

JOE NICKELL

Thinking About Science

The Neuro-philosophy of Regret

MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI

Notes on a Strange World

The Devious Art of Improvising, Lesson One

MASSIMO POLIDORO

Psychic Vibrations

Time Flies Like an Arrow, but Fruit Flies Like Bilked Bananas

ROBERT SHEAFFER

The Skeptical Inquiree

Searching to Noah Vale

BENJAMIN RADFORD

Skeptical Humor

Scientology Losing Ground to New Fictionology

THE ONION

New Books

Letters to the Editor

Guide for Authors

BOOK REVIEWS

Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law

By Peter Woit

Robert P. Crease

Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design

By Michael Shermer

Kenneth W. Krause

The P.R.E.S.T.O.N. Protocol for Back Pain: The Seven Evidence-Based Practices for Living Pain Free

By Preston H. Long

Harriet A. Hall

Spychips: How Major Corporations and Governments Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID

The Spychips Threat: Why Christians Should Resist RFID and Electronic Surveillance

Both By Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre

Wendy M. Grossman

Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death

By Deborah Blum

Joe Nickell