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Cover_Fall 2014 9/8/2014 10:09 AM Page 1 Dædalus coming up in Dædalus: What is the Brain Fred H. Gage, Thomas D. Albright, Emilio Bizzi & Robert Ajemian, Good For? Brendon O. Watson & György Buzsáki, A. J. Hudspeth, Joseph LeDoux, Dædalus Earl K. Miller & Timothy J. Buschman, Terrence J. Sejnowski, Larry R. Squire & John T. Wixted, and Robert H. Wurtz Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fall 2014 On Water Christopher Field & Anna Michalak, Michael Witzel, Charles Vörösmarty, Michel Meybeck & Christopher L. Pastore, Terry L. Anderson, John Briscoe, Richard G. Luthy & David L. Sedlak, Stephen R. to the Stars Atoms 2014: From Fall Carpenter & Adena R. Rissman, Jerald Schnoor, and Katherine Jacobs From Atoms Jerrold Meinwald Introduction 5 to the Stars Christopher C. Cummins Phosphorus: From the Stars to Land & Sea 9 On an Aging Society John W. Rowe, Jay Olshansky, Julie Zissimopolous, Dana Goldman, John Meurig Thomas Foresight, Unpredictability & Chance Robert Hummer, Mark Hayworth, Lisa Berkman, Axel Boersch-Supan, in Chemistry & Cognate Subjects 21 Dawn Carr, Linda Fried, Frank Furstenberg, Caroline Hartnett, Martin Fred Wudl The Bright Future of Fabulous Materials Kohli, Toni Antonucci, David Bloom, and David Canning Based on Carbon 31 Chaitan Khosla The Convergence of Chemistry G. David Tilman, Walter C. Willett, Meir J. Stampfer & Jaquelyn L. Food, Health & & Human Biology 43 the Environment Jahn, Nathaniel D. Mueller & Seth Binder, Steven Gaines & Christopher K. N. Houk & Peng Liu Using Computational Chemistry to Understand Costello, Andrew Balmford, Rhys Green & Ben Phalan, G. Philip & Discover Chemical Reactions 49 Robertson, Brian G. Henning, and Steven Polasky Jeremiah P. Ostriker From the Atom to the Universe: Recent Astronomical Discoveries 67 plus The Internet; What’s New About the Old?; New Dilemmas in Ethics, Technology & War &c Anna Frebel Reconstructing the Cosmic Evolution of the Chemical Elements 71 Gáspár Áron Bakos Exoplanets, 2003–2013 81 Michael A. Strauss Mapping the Universe: Surveys of the Sky as Discovery Engines in Astronomy 93 Scott Tremaine The Odd Couple: Quasars & Black Holes 103 Pieter van Dokkum The Formation & Evolution of Galaxies 114 David N. Spergel Cosmology Today 125 U.S. $13; www.amacad.org Cherishing Knowledge · Shaping the Future Cover_Fall 2014 9/8/2014 10:09 AM Page 2 Book_Fall 2014_Shinner.qxd 9/8/2014 9:54 AM Page 1 Inside front cover: “Life seen as a miracle of organized atoms.” Artwork by Adam Hurwitz. © American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Book_Fall 2014_Shinner.qxd 9/8/2014 9:54 AM Page 2 Jerrold Meinwald and Jeremiah Ostriker, Guest Editors Phyllis S. Bendell, Managing Editor and Director of Publications D Peter Walton, Assistant Editor Emma Goldhammer, Senior Editorial Assistant J Committee on Studies and Publications Jerrold Meinwald and John Mark Hansen, Cochairs; Jesse H. Choper, Denis Donoghue, Gerald Early, Carol Gluck, Sibyl Golden, Linda Greenhouse, John Hildebrand, Jerome Kagan, Philip Khoury, Steven Marcus, Eric Sundquist, Jonathan Fanton (ex of½cio), Don M. Randel (ex of½cio), Diane P. Wood (ex of½cio) Dædalus is designed by Alvin Eisenman. Book_Fall 2014_Shinner.qxd 9/8/2014 9:54 AM Page 3 Dædalus Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences The pavement labyrinth once in the nave of Reims Cathedral (1240), in a drawing, with ½gures of the architects, by Jacques Cellier (c. 1550–1620) Dædalus was founded in 1955 and established as a quarterly in 1958. The journal’s namesake was renowned in ancient Greece as an inventor, scien- tist, and unriddler of riddles. Its emblem, a maze seen from above, symbol- izes the aspiration of its founders to “lift each of us above his cell in the lab- yrinth of learning in order that he may see the entire structure as if from above, where each separate part loses its comfortable separateness.” The American Academy of Arts & Sciences, like its journal, brings togeth- er distinguished individuals from every ½eld of human endeavor. It was char- tered in 1780 as a forum “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.” Now in its third century, the Academy, with its nearly ½ve thousand elected members, continues to provide intellectual leadership to meet the critical challenges facing our world. Book_Fall 2014_Shinner.qxd 9/10/2014 9:08 AM Page 4 Dædalus Fall 2014 Subscription rates: Electronic only for non- Issued as Volume 143, Number 4 member individuals–$47; institutions–$129. Canadians add 5% gst. Print and electronic for © 2014 by the American Academy nonmember individuals–$52; institutions– of Arts & Sciences $144. Canadians add 5% gst. Outside the United Phosphorus: From the Stars to Land & Sea States and Canada add $23 for postage and han- © 2014 by Christopher C. Cummins dling. Prices subject to change without notice. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license Institutional subscriptions are on a volume- Reconstructing the Cosmic Evolution year basis. All other subscriptions begin with of the Chemical Elements the next available issue. © 2014 by Anna Frebel Single issues: $13 for individuals; $35 for insti- Editorial of½ces: Dædalus, American Academy of tutions. Outside the United States and Canada Arts & Sciences, 136 Irving Street, Cambridge ma add $6 per issue for postage and handling. 02138. Phone: 617 576 5085. Fax: 617 576 5088. Prices subject to change without notice. Email: [email protected]. Claims for missing issues will be honored free Library of Congress Catalog No. 12-30299 of charge if made within three months of the publication date of the issue. Claims may be Dædalus publishes by invitation only and as- submitted to [email protected]. Members of sumes no responsibility for unsolicited manu- the American Academy please direct all ques- scripts. The views expressed are those of the tions and claims to [email protected]. author of each article, and not necessarily of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Advertising and mailing-list inquiries may be addressed to Marketing Department, mit Press Dædalus (issn 0011-5266; e-issn 1548-6192) Journals, One Rogers Street, Cambridge ma is published quarterly (winter, spring, summer, 02142-1209. Phone:617253 2866. Fax: 617 253 1709. fall) by The mit Press, One Rogers Street, Cam- Email: [email protected]. bridge ma 02142-1209, for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 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Printed in the United States of America by Cadmus Professional Communications, Science Corporations and academic institutions with Press Division, 300 West Chestnut Street, valid photocopying and/or digital licenses with Ephrata pa 17522. the Copyright Clearance Center (ccc) may reproduce content from Dædalus under the Newsstand distribution by Ingram Periodicals terms of their license. Please go to www Inc., 18 Ingram Blvd., La Vergne tn 37086. .copyright.com; ccc, 222 Rosewood Drive, Postmaster: Send address changes to Dædalus, Danvers ma 01923. One Rogers Street, Cambridge ma 02142-1209. The typeface is Cycles, designed by Sumner Periodicals postage paid at Boston ma and at Stone at the Stone Type Foundry of Guinda ca. additional mailing of½ces. Each size of Cycles has been sep arately designed in the tradition of metal types. Book_Fall 2014_Shinner.qxd 9/8/2014 9:59 AM Page 5 Introduction Jerrold Meinwald Why “From Atoms to the Stars”? In the Summer 2012 issue of Dædalus, entitled “Science in the 21st Century,” May Berenbaum and I sought to provide representative accounts of recent progress in the natural sciences. But it turned out that two areas of the physical sciences–astronomy and chemistry– cried out for more extensive attention than we were then able to provide. Consequently, Jeremiah Ostriker and I recruited a group of outstanding as - tronomers and chemists to write a set of essays to complement this earlier issue. Each of the new es - says in this volume discusses important scienti½c JERROLD MEINWALD, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1970, developments in astronomy and chemistry in spe - is the Goldwin Smith Professor of ci½c areas of study to which the authors themselves Chemistry Emeritus at Cornell Uni - have made major contributions. versity. His research has contrib - Philosophers, alchemists, and subsequently chem - uted to a wide range of chemical ists have examined the properties and transforma- and chemical biological subjects, tions of matter in all its diversity for over two mil- including organic photochemistry, lennia. The pace of progress of these studies (and, reaction mechanisms, the synthe- in fact, in all areas of science) picked up markedly sis of chiral inhalation anesthetics, natural product chemistry, and toward the end of the eighteenth century, and has chemical ecology. His publications been increasing rapidly ever since. It was not until include the edited volumes Chem - twenty years after the ½rst performance of Stravin- ical Ecology: The Chemistry of Biotic sky’s The Rite of Spring (and, I was shocked to realize, Interaction (with Thomas Eisner, during my own lifetime!) that it became clear, with 1995) and Science and the Educated James Chadwick’s discovery of the neutron in 1932, Amer ican: A Core Component of Lib- that all ordinary matter is made up simply of protons, eral Education (with John G.
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