The Evening Standard (London, England) back issues from January 2001:
THIS MONTH IN ODYSSEY.(pending launch of the new Mars space probe 2001 Mars Odyssey)(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Last fall, as we were working to put this issue together, NASA announced that its next spacecraft to Mars, set for an April 7th launched, would be named ... 2001 Mars Odyssey! "How exciting!" we thought. And how appropriate, since when the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey came out in 1968 (far ...
Reptiles "Get Down".(discovery of feathered fossil shows that dinosaurs evolved from reptiles)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Okay, you're not going to believe it. I mean, will it ever end, this bird-dino debate? Imagine, we devoted an entire issue of ODYSSEY (September 2000) to dinosaurs. Exhaustive research on all manner of feathered fossils led scientists to a unanimous opinion -- that birds descended from ...
Comet Crackup.(Comet Linear's appearance as it entered the atmosphere)
Jan 01, 2001; ... And speaking of crackups, how many of you waited and waited for Comet Linear to put on its great summer show? Well, if you went outside hoping to see the comet with your naked eye, you would have been disappointed. Although the comet looked nice through binoculars and telescopes in early ...
Sound Off.(how humpback whales respond to sonar used by submarines)
Jan 01, 2001; ... How does a male humpback whale attract a mate? It sings a looooooong and complex song, which obviously must be akin to telling the female humpback how much he loves her, how much money he has, and what he intends to do to support her. Anyway, this scoop isn't about the interpretation of ...
Killer Math.(how predatory animals use math when hunting)
Jan 01, 2001; ... You've all seen it on TV -- a cheetah running and running and chasing and chasing some helpless vegetarian across grasslands. Well, according to Japanese ecologist Shigeo Yachi (Kyoto University in Otsu), all predators -- from jumping spiders to darting fish-scale eaters -- hunt using ...
Aliens Kill Shrimp.(Australian jellyfish killing shrimp in the Mississippi Sound and Gulf of Mexico)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Well, enough about killer math. How about killer aliens! They're big, they're bad, they're killing shrimp. Alien jellyfish have arrived in the Gulf of Mexico, and they're threatening to hurt the local shrimp industry. They're aliens, not because they come from Mars, but because they come ...
Life in the Clouds.(bacteria found to be living in clouds)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Got your head in the clouds? Well, you might want to get it out. Believe it or not, the fluffy puffs of aerial cotton floating overhead may be a bacteria metropolis. Yes, these microorganisms can live and grow in clouds -- at least that's what Austrian scientists believe. (I wonder what ...
2001: A Space Odyssey.(influence the 1968 film has on space exploration and space equipment design)
Jan 01, 2001; ... "Open the pod-bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." "What's the problem?" "I think you know, what the problem is, just as well as I do." A reasonable conversation? Well, yes, except that it takes place in space, ...
Robots Rise Up ... and Take Over?(potential future of robotics)
Jan 01, 2001; ... You're aboard a spaceship in the year 2001. Trouble arises ... terrible, life-threatening trouble. The high-tech robot you've relied on for security, spaceship operations, and general companionship has made a drastic error. You have to dismantle it to save the mission. But that ...
LIFE NEAR JUPITER?(observations of Europa)
Jan 01, 2001; ... In Arthur C. Clarke's 2001, astronauts pile into a high-tech spacecraft run by a chatty computer, and head for Jupiter -- a forbidding planet more than three-quarters of a billion kilometers from earth. They're making the trip to rendezvous with aliens, a strange idea. After all, Jupiter's ...
WANTED: MARS ... DEAD OR ALIVE?(search for life on Mars)
Jan 01, 2001; ... When Mariner 4 flew past Mars in 1965, scientists on earth got the first-ever close-up view of the Red Planet. What they saw came as surprise ... and, as a disappointment. The Mars that Mariner's television cameras revealed was a blasted, cratered desert, with an atmosphere so thin that it ...
DR. JILL TARTER: Searching for Signs of Alien Intelligence.(Interview)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Missions to Mars and Europa may eventually find microbial life. But what about intelligent life? We now know of dozens of stars with planets. Might other worlds in the galaxy harbor advanced civilizations? We haven't yet found obvious signs of alien intelligence like the ...
Sailing the Ocean of Space.(lightcraft)
Jan 01, 2001; ... He smiled wryly, remembering all his attempts to explain solar sailing to those lecture audiences back on earth ... "Hold your hands out to the sun," he'd said. "What do you feel? Heat, of course. But there's pressure as well -- though you've never noticed it, because it's so tiny. Over ...
Catch the Buzz: An Interview with Apollo Astronaut Buzz Aldrin.(Interview)
Jan 01, 2001; ... He was the second man lucky enough -- and courageous enough --to leave his bootprint in moon dust. Through his foundation, ShareSpace, Buzz Aldrin, who calls himself a futurist, has been hard at work trying to secure a place for you, as "citizen explorers," on the next generation of ...
An Eggs-traterrestrial Launch!(EGGS Prize water-rocket competition)
Jan 01, 2001; ... "Three ... Two ... One ... Liftoff!" Twelve-year-old Katie Flieger watches her rocket shoot into the air as a white plume of water streaks out its tail. As she peers up at the sky, Katie realizes just how far she's come since her teacher at Waterloo Junior High, Waterloo, IL, first ...
Chilly Nights, a Meteor Shower, and Blazing Planets!(stargazing in Jan. 2001)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The monthly All-Sky Chart depicts the sky (minus the Moon) as it appears at 6 p.m. (your local time) on Jan. 16. Usefull all month, the chart (except for planet positions) is also accurate for 7 p.m. on Jan. 1 and 5 p.m. on Jan. 31. January has a habit of bringing icy cold ...
STARGAZING.(Julian calendar)
Jan 01, 2001 ... HAIL, CAESAR GREETINGS, GREETINGS FELLOW STARGAZERS! I BET YOU'RE ALL READY TO CELEBRATE THE NEW YEAR ON JANUARY 1ST. WELL, IF WE ALL LIVED BACK IN THE DAYS OF ANCIENT ROME, WE WOULD BE WISHING EACH OTHER HAPPY NEW YEAR ON A DIFFERENT DAY. THAT'S BECAUSE ...
Two Days in Space.("Astronaut Adventurers" program at U.S. Space Camp)
Jan 01, 2001 ... Editor's Note: This month, Fantastic Journeys takes you with Ms. Bartle's fifth graders from the San Diego Unified School District to the "Astronaut Adventurers" program at U.S. Space Camp in Mountain View, CA. To find out more about this camp and other space camps around the country, ...
FLIES IN FLIGHT.(space research on fruit flies)
Jan 01, 2001 ... Give a cheer for Drosophila melanogaster. Its scientific name roughly means "dew-loving, pigmented stomach." The natural habitat of this tiny, redeyed creature gives it its common name -- fruit fly. Fruit flies have long been used in scientific experiments. They are easy to raise and ...
A for Angus, B for Banal ; ' Without a cavalcade of fresh stiffs to distract us, one couldn't help noticing that the only person who died on New Year's Eve was Angus Deayton himself'
Jan 02, 2001;
LOTTERY'S 92m FOR FILM FLOPS Just one of 14 funded projects makes profit
Jan 02, 2001;
siege drama as gunmen raid the Trocadero
Jan 02, 2001;
Floods and rail chaos disrupt return to work
Jan 02, 2001;
Pressure mounts on Labour to name 2m donor
Jan 02, 2001;
87m NHS boost for war on cancer
Jan 02, 2001
Arafat and Clinton in crisis peace talks
Jan 02, 2001;
20,000 clubbers dance on the (g)rave
Jan 02, 2001;
Heseltine joins calls to halt the Dome sell-off
Jan 02, 2001;
Briton charged with murdering rowing club chief
Jan 02, 2001;
Test results awaited on 'depressed' Princess
Jan 02, 2001
Fatties tip the balance of world's population
Jan 02, 2001
Girl, 15, electrocuted crossing railway line
Jan 02, 2001
Backpack hostel fire hearing opens in chaos
Jan 02, 2001
Martine takes a short cut to stage success
Jan 02, 2001
Parents of ice-trap boy in plea for lifebelts at park lake
Jan 02, 2001;
Crack cocaine houses move to London's smartest areas
Jan 02, 2001;
Met 'to recruit police in Ireland'
Jan 02, 2001;
The next time you feel sick take a duvet day off work
Jan 02, 2001;
Rod to score for schools
Jan 02, 2001
Connex boss says we were voted out like a contestant on Big Brother
Jan 02, 2001;
New cameras focus on fuel bandits
Jan 02, 2001;
Vinnie puts up a fight to save Harefield
Jan 02, 2001;
London house prices 'set for slow pickup'
Jan 02, 2001;
Blair warned: census will confuse voters
Jan 02, 2001
Golden opportunity
Jan 02, 2001
Boom boon for Lawson
Jan 02, 2001
Variety show
Jan 02, 2001
Kind arrangement
Jan 02, 2001
How not to make a movie
Jan 02, 2001
Impudence
Jan 02, 2001
Tube wreckers
Jan 02, 2001
Laws are not enough to create happy working families
Jan 02, 2001;
That's enough anniversaries, thank you
Jan 02, 2001;
Charity shops and the east-west divide
Jan 02, 2001;
When will I be a famous vampire?
Jan 02, 2001;
60,000 'war chest' to fight road charges
Jan 02, 2001;
Crazy Church paves way for change on the streets
Jan 02, 2001;
Why even a baby has failed to stop Daria dancing
Jan 02, 2001;
No fears for the Eye
Jan 02, 2001
The Young Ones ' The new generation of London architects has a sense of limitless possibilities'
Jan 02, 2001;
Robbery drama as gunmen raid the Trocadero
Jan 02, 2001;
Publisher Paul Hamlyn revealed as Labour's 2m donor
Jan 02, 2001;
Woman killed by beach landslide
Jan 02, 2001;
Petrol predicted to fall by 2p a litre
Jan 02, 2001;
Floods and rail chaos disrupt return to work
Jan 02, 2001;