FIELD NOTES
Place your ad here/Animal drives/Alluring curves, and more
BREAKTHROUGH BOOKS
The Internet and the World Wide Web
INSIDE PUBLISHING
The Pompeii way/Interface-off/Lit-while-U-wait
The Bard's Fingerprints
Donald Foster caused a stir when he identified Joe Klein as the true
author of Primary Colors. But the Vassar professor's most controversial
claim is that a rather dreary funeral elegy for a seventeenth-century nobody
was written by William Shakespeare. Will his computer tests win the critics
over?
BY CALEB CRAIN
Invisible Cities
Architecture's avant-garde has long dreamed of remaking the world. And
now, with the aid of French theory and American software, young architects
at Columbia and UCLA are trying to make good on those promises. But whether
their virtual buildings will ever see the light of day is far from certain.
BY ALEXANDER STILLE
Pictures of Us
Anthropologists used to make ethnographic films about their subjects.
But these days, native peoples are increasingly shooting films about themselves.
Some anthropologists believe native videomaking can help preserve traditional
cultures. Others fear it will only destroy them.
BY JOHN PALATTELLA
God Only Knows
Since the Middle Ages, believers have combed the Bible for proof of its
divine origins. After a group of Israeli mathematicians found history's
secrets coded in the scriptures, an American reporter wrote The Bible Code
and put their method on the bestseller list. But is their faith-inspired
math flawed?
BY HAL COHEN
1998 GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP WINNERS
CLASSIFIED
CONFERENCES
HYPOTHESES
Jim Holt on logic's loyal opposition.
