The End Or Is It Special Issue Scientific American 092010 1st Edition Various by Various instant download after payment.

INTRODUCTION
38 Eternal Fascinations with the End By Michael Moyer Why we want to believe that this is humanity’s final hour.
MEDICINE
42 Why Can’t We Live Forever? By Thomas Kirkwood By unraveling the mysteries of aging, scientists may be able to extend our lives.
BIOETHICS
50 When Does Life Belong to the Living? By Robin Marantz Henig Some doctors think we shouldn’t wait for donors to die before removing their organs.
FORENSICS
56 Dust to Dust By Arpad A. Vass The brief, eventful afterlife of a human corpse.
ANTHROPOLOGY
60 Last of Their Kind By Wade Davis As cultures die, knowledge dies with them.
TECHNOLOGY
68 Good Riddance Some human inventions deserve to go.
ENVIRONMENT
74 How Much Is Left? By Michael Moyer The lowdown on the planet’s dwindling resources.
RISK ANALYSIS
82 Laying Odds on the Apocalypse By John Matson How experts see the likelihood of eight doomsday scenarios. cosmology
84 Could Time End? By George Musser Recent work in physics suggests a resolution to the paradox of time.
RESTART
92 What Comes Next Scientists give their visions of what the future holds.