Cocoa Futures
For three years, molecular biologist Mark Guiltinan has been perfecting a system for making better
cocoa plants: lots of them, and quickly. But that’s labwork. In Trinidad, Guiltinan and his students
got a rare chance to share what they have learned — and get a taste of cocoa-growing in the field.
Life on the Rocks
Biogeochemistry — the study of how microbes influence the chemical cycles of the Earth — asks questions
that require an interdisciplinary approach. So how do you get the microbiologists, engineers, soil
scientists, and geochemists talking to each other? Start with graduate students. A big grant from the
National Science Foundation helps.
Lost Highway
While some people cruise down the Information Superhighway, others have yet to get in the car. Is equal
Internet access a basic American right? More than that: It is essential to the very functioning of our
democracy.
The Last of the Devil's Music
The blues were life force, survival, the vibrant oral history of a people. But the blues, Clyde Woods
says, have the blues. Commercialized, co-opted, and rendered respectable: Can the music still speak to
the soul? Last summer at University Park, scholars gathered to bury the blues … and to play them.
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The Critical Point
This Little Piggy
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Flowering
How Plants Expand
Knocking the World on Its Side
Playing for Safety
Green Roofs
The Lean Green Cycling Machine
Patterns of Hate
"That’ll Teach You"
Answering Einstein
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