contents

online features

Big Questions All Wrapped Up in Small Packages: Beyond Einstein (pdf), by Amanda Peet and Pekka Sinervo

Knocking on the Frontier of Nano: The Centre for Polymeric and Inorganic Nanomaterials (pdf), by Geoffrey Ozin

Also in this issue

Images of Sound: Symmetry hidden and manifest in physics and art, by Stephen Morris and Lydia Sharman

We are talking to our young and hoping they will understand, by Keren Rice

Body Parts, Large and Small, by Ian Hacking

"Every human being was the summit, and is still" : The Legacy of Pope John Paul II, by Daniel Donovan

Astronomical scales, with contributions by Peter Martin, Howard Yee, John Percy, Ray Jayawardhana, Marten van Kerkwijk and John Dubinski

Geological scales, with contributions by Russ Pysklywec, Jim Mungall, Steve Scott and Grant Ferris

Technological breakthroughs in scale, with contributions by Karan Singh, R.J. Dwayne Miller, Daniel Vogel and Ravin Balakrishnan

This Stings But Does Not Break Skin, a poem by Sandra Huber

departments

interview — Road Back to Small Town, U.S.A., Bart Testa in conversation with David Cronenberg

profile — Taking a Look at Ian Hacking, by Jack Kwong

gallery — Flashlight, by Luis Jacob

reviews — Books by Raymond Hsu, Camilla Gibb, Hal Niedzviecki, Greg Hollingshead, Stephen Marche

big ideas — How Big is Infinite?, by Philip Kremer