Contents
Foreword:
So Many Interesting Paths to Discovery
Marc Guttman
Tractor beams
David Ruffner
Unseen Connections
Suzanne W. Simard
Having a Look:
Discovering and Exploring the Outer Solar System
David Jewitt
Asymmetry of Brain Function
Lesley J. Rogers
The Journey is the Point
Sheryl L. Bishop
Empirical, Clinical and First Person Neuroscience;
Wanting it All
Jonathan Cole
The Cold Hard Face of Discovery in Remote Antarctica
John A. Long
Sun–Planet Connections:
The Problem of Boundaries of Knowledge
Janet Luhmann
The Immortal Jellyfish Turritopsis and the Future Evolution of Humans
Shin Kubota
New Electromaterials for Medical Bionics:
The Journey So Far
Gordon Wallace
Explorations of Heroism:
My Journey Toward Understanding the Genesis of Exemplary Behavior
Scott T. Allison
Wildlife Cam
Mehdi Bakhtiari
Childhood’s End:
The Imminent Discovery of Alien Life on a New World
Richard K. Barry
A Rolling Stone Gathers Moss
(even from Ötzi the Iceman’s Innards)
James H. Dickson
How I Came to Study Ecology
William H. Schlesinger
Discovering the Beauty of Sea Slugs
Ángel Valdés
Into the Unknown
Nils-Axel Mörner
Toward an Understanding of Raw Emotional Feelings:
The Source of Primal Affective Consciousness in Animals and Humans?
Jaak Panksepp
Getting Our Ideas:
The Case for the Random Walk
James K. Beggan
A Leopard's Breakfast Interrupted:
Further Explorations of a Congolese Wilderness
Thurston Cleveland Hicks
The Discovery of the First Conodont Animals
Euan N K Clarkson
Unraveling Collagen Biology Enhances Human Life, Health, and Beauty
James D. San Antonio and Olena Jacenko
The Life Work of a Sexual Health Educator and Researcher
Beverly Whipple
Changing Landscapes at the Top of the World
Ulyana N. Horodyskyj
A Metamorphosis
Jeffrey A. Lockwood
My Accidental Scholarly Discoveries
Russell Belk
How I Became a Paleobiologist
Conrad C. Labandeira
What Rotifers in the Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Taught Us About Toxicity of Saltwater Oil Spill Cleanup Techniques
Roberto Rico-Martínez
What the Narwhals Taught Me
Ari Daniel
A Planetary Journey Through a World of Discoveries
Patrick Martin
Foreword:
So Many Interesting Paths to Discovery
Marc Guttman
Tractor beams
David Ruffner
Unseen Connections
Suzanne W. Simard
Having a Look:
Discovering and Exploring the Outer Solar System
David Jewitt
Asymmetry of Brain Function
Lesley J. Rogers
The Journey is the Point
Sheryl L. Bishop
Empirical, Clinical and First Person Neuroscience;
Wanting it All
Jonathan Cole
The Cold Hard Face of Discovery in Remote Antarctica
John A. Long
Sun–Planet Connections:
The Problem of Boundaries of Knowledge
Janet Luhmann
The Immortal Jellyfish Turritopsis and the Future Evolution of Humans
Shin Kubota
New Electromaterials for Medical Bionics:
The Journey So Far
Gordon Wallace
Explorations of Heroism:
My Journey Toward Understanding the Genesis of Exemplary Behavior
Scott T. Allison
Wildlife Cam
Mehdi Bakhtiari
Childhood’s End:
The Imminent Discovery of Alien Life on a New World
Richard K. Barry
A Rolling Stone Gathers Moss
(even from Ötzi the Iceman’s Innards)
James H. Dickson
How I Came to Study Ecology
William H. Schlesinger
Discovering the Beauty of Sea Slugs
Ángel Valdés
Into the Unknown
Nils-Axel Mörner
Toward an Understanding of Raw Emotional Feelings:
The Source of Primal Affective Consciousness in Animals and Humans?
Jaak Panksepp
Getting Our Ideas:
The Case for the Random Walk
James K. Beggan
A Leopard's Breakfast Interrupted:
Further Explorations of a Congolese Wilderness
Thurston Cleveland Hicks
The Discovery of the First Conodont Animals
Euan N K Clarkson
Unraveling Collagen Biology Enhances Human Life, Health, and Beauty
James D. San Antonio and Olena Jacenko
The Life Work of a Sexual Health Educator and Researcher
Beverly Whipple
Changing Landscapes at the Top of the World
Ulyana N. Horodyskyj
A Metamorphosis
Jeffrey A. Lockwood
My Accidental Scholarly Discoveries
Russell Belk
How I Became a Paleobiologist
Conrad C. Labandeira
What Rotifers in the Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Taught Us About Toxicity of Saltwater Oil Spill Cleanup Techniques
Roberto Rico-Martínez
What the Narwhals Taught Me
Ari Daniel
A Planetary Journey Through a World of Discoveries
Patrick Martin