Unfortunately, you can’t see the articles without an additional subscription, but you can see Science Magazine’s tables of contents and ads at the back for a whole raft of old issues, going back to 1880! I hope Project Gutenberg gets some of those, too– I only see some Scientific American there right now…

West Nile Virus is officially in King County, so it’s time to offload your tire garden and your collection of open-topped rusty barrels. The good news is that bird surveillance pays off. The CDC lets you know how far your DEET budget will go.

Start counting the days until the episode of Bones based on this event.

Did you know you can volunteer in the airport? How about the emergency room in a busy regional teaching hospital?

Those guys who evaluate how well students in different countries are doing in math and science (you know, the ones where USanians do better than Cyprus. USA! USA!) evaluated the curriculum in the Bellevue Schools. Here are their thoughts.

Article about the odd messing about with body sense that can be done when you poke the brain, with implications for the messing about the brain does on its own.

Check out these cute (but spendy) vinyl dolls! Very good expressions on these guys.

Vectibix? It sounds much more like a tasty British cookie than a medication for colorectal cancer. Perhaps it is both!

Old stock (ha!) photos of grocery stores.