Endeavors magazine: Browse stories from our back issues by category

features:

• a life at the bench: in the 1930s, oliver smithies was tinkering with telescopes and radio-controlled boats. last october, the nobel committee called. [people]
• the bug zappers: busting bacteria’s resistance to drugs. [biochemistry]
• mites among the machines: day and night, children toiled in north carolina’s textile mills. [history]
• tiny steps on a tightrope: mapping the structure of an ancient protein. [chemistry]
• meet the bucket brigade: the J-school rescues a paper in peril. [journalism]
• guatemala city’s dirtiest secret: a volunteer steers scavengers’ kids out of the dump. [public health]
• why be happy? how positive emotions do us good. [psychology]
• the tangled roots of OCD: can science sort out obsessive-compulsive disorder? [health & med.]
• where the trail has led: carolina’s stories of american indians. [social sciences]
• in hot water: coral reefs lose their cool. [marine sciences]
• the magic man: daniel wallace became a big-time novelist one sentence at a time. [literature]
• the reasons for rebellion: the real causes of unrest in iran. [political science]
• the mouse mess: have we bred some of the medical value out of lab mice? [health & med.]

welcome:

• from the editor.

overview:

• a mysterious allergy afflicts the south. [health & med.]
• blocking HIV in the womb. [public health]
• bingeing with baby. [health & med.]
• sex and the spadefoot toad. [biology]

in print:

• transcendental optimism. [literature]
• auction fever. [communications]
• normal: the enemy of great. [business]

endview:

• a circle of friends.

©2008 Endeavors magazine, UNC-Chapel Hill.