The Duke University Magazine of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Spring 1995 Edition - Volume XI, Number 2

Editor: Chapin Rodriguez

Copy Editor: Fenella Saunders

• From the Editor
  
  
• The Great Ecological Frontier
  As home to over two-thirds of the earth's known species, rainforests offer almost limitless opportunity for exploration by Duke researchers.
  
  
• Learning from Bats
  Duke neurobiologists have studied the brains of bats to learn about the ways in which these animals are able to sense the durations of sounds. This information is central to an understanding of language, among both bats and humans.
  
  
• Choline, the Remembrancer?
  Studies carried out in the Department of Experimental Psychology suggest that choline plays a central role in memory development and maintenance.
  
  
• Hemi-Sync and Altered Consciousness
  The Monroe Institute in Virginia has developed a "binaural beat technology" that enables people to exert greater control over their own minds. The Institute is now releasing some of its most interesting findings.
  
  
• Bringing Duke Computing Up to Speed
  Following a 1992 faculty initiative, the Online Information Services Project has sought to revamp Duke computing. Project programmers see their efforts as part of an ongoing developmental and enhancement process.
  
  
• Unearthing TUNL
  TUNL, the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, supports one of the most important physics research teams in the country. And it's right in the middle of Duke's campus.
  
  
• Energy Down the Tubes
  Duke's Free Electron Laser is operating so well and is being applied to so many different problems that the most perplexing question remains: What can't it do?
  
  
• Essay: Nature and the Aesthetic Uncaptured
  
  

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