1979 "Changing the Guard (But Not Too Much)" (1/79) "Extrapolation" (2/79) "Liberal Education" (4/79) "Servant's Pay" (5/79) "Ten Years After: Where Do We Go From Here?" (7/79) "Equal Rights for Dumb Blondes" (8/79) "Irreproducible Phenomena" (9/79) "Safety First" (10/79) "Team Sport" (12/79) 1980 "Looking Backward -- and Forward" (1/80) "Quality Control" (2/80) "Space for What?" (3/80) "Energy and Freedom" (4/80) "Reasons" (7/80) "Energy Proposal" (8/80) "Housewarming" (9/80) "Advice for 'Crackpots'" (10/80) "Self-fulfilling Prophecies" (12/80) 1981 "Cultural Anesthetics" (15/81) "Nonlogical Processes (in Science and Elsewhere)" (2/81) "One Step at a Time?" (3/30/81) "Portrait of You" (4/27/81) "Credentials" (5/25/81) "To Let the Punishment Fit the Crime" (6/22/81) "A Case for Conformity" (8/17/81) "Who Pays the Piper?" (9/14/81) "Critical Event" (10/12/81) "The One-Way Pendulum" (12/7/81) 1982 "The 'Moral' 'Majority'" (1/4/82) "Specifications for Superman" (2/1/82) "Reflections on the Road" (3/29/82) "The TISATAAFL Trap" (5/82) "Renaissance" (6/82) "The Name of the Game" (8/82) "The Relativity of Emergency" (9/82) "Moral Engineering" (Mid-9/82) "Ideas Before Their Time" (10/82) "Inventions Wanted" (12/82) 1983 "Those Nasty Ol' Censors" (1/83) "A Journal of (Dubious) Distinction" (2/83) "A Little Knowledge" (4/83) "The Right to What?" (5/83) "Drug Abuse" (6/83) "Word Games" (8/83) "Thought by Proxy" (9/83) "Where the Deer and the Predators Play" (Mid-9/83) "The Technology Trap" (10/83) "Placing the Blame" (11/83) 1984 "A Carrot for the Teacher" (1/84) "When Is a Science?" (2/84) "Noise" (3/84) "Individuals and Statistics" (4/84) "Loyal Opposition" (5/84) "Infallibility Required" (6/84) "Educational Mythology" (7/84) "Heirs Unapparent" (8/84) "'Tis the Season" (9/84) "The Too-Inclusive 'We'" (10/84) "Guilty Till Proven Innocent" (12/84) 1985 "If You Can't Lick 'Em . . ." (1/85) "Acid Raindrops" (2/85) "The World's Biggest Think Tank" (3/85) "Speak for Yourself. . . ." (4/85) "Garbage In, Gospel Out" (5/85) "The Need to Believe" (6/85) "Core Curriculum" (7/85) "In Case of Doubt . . ." (8/85) "Pendulums" (9/85) "More Than One Way . . ." (10/85) "The Old Refrains" (11/85) "In/Deduction" (12/85) "Do It Our Way!" (Mid-12/85) 1986 "The Other Kind of Tyranny" (1/86) "Finite Cornucopias" (2/86) "Missing Links" (3/86) "The Panic Mentality" (5/86) "Who's Responsible?" (6/86) "Unholy War" (7/86) "Ah, Sweet Misremembered Youth!" (8/86) "After the Shock" (9/86) "Trick Questions" (10/86) "Cold Feet" (11/86) "The Ultimate Recyclable" (Mid-12/86) 1987 "Fundamental Dilemma" (1/87) "The Gypsy and the Procrastinator" (2/87) "Brain Language" (3/87) "An Alien Viewpoint" [as by C. S. Bushnik] (4/87) "Butterfly Futures" (5/87) "Child Abuse" (6/87) "The Reactionary Revolution" (7/87) "The Memetic Menace" (8/87) "Final Frontiers" (10/87) "Great Oaks from Little Atoms" (11/87) "Political Standard Time" (12/87) "Matters of Opinion" (Mid-12/87) 1988 "Matters of Principle" (1/88) ". . . and Justice for All" (2/88) "There's No Place Like ________" (4/88) "An Experiment on People" (5/88) "Population Ethics" (6/88) "A Requiem for Summer?" (7/88) "With One Exception . . ." (8/88) "Pure Art and Electronics" (9/88) "Training Muzzles" (10/88) "Missing Chain" (11/88) "Progress!" (12/88) "Serials" (Mid-12/88) 1989 "Training Mission" (1/89) "Internal Affairs" (2/89) "Open Letter to a Teacher" (3/89) "Optimists, Pessimists, and Surprises" (4/89) "Utopia Test" (5/89) "Tools of the Trade" (6/89) "Job Qualifications" (8/89) "The Blind Men, the Planet, and the Wolf" (9/89) "The Limits of Tolerance" (10/89) "Town Meeting" (11/89) "Fear Pollution" (Mid-12/89)

1990 "Another Decade!" (1/90) "On Being Human" (2/90) "Engineering Problem" (3/90) "Matters of Attitude" (4/90) "Extrapolatio ad Absurdum" (5/90) "The Oldtimer Effect" (6/90) "The Right To Be Wrong" (7/90) "Bag Limit" (8/90) "Sensory Deprivation" (9/90) "Authority vs. Consensus" (10/90) "The Door on the Desktop" (11/90) "Missing Ingredient" (12/90) "Windows to the Future" (Mid-12/90) 1991 "Your Rights, Whether You Want Them Or Not" (1/91) "Say When!" (2/91) "Primitive Machines" (3/91) "Ex Machina" (4/91) "Foolproof" (5/91) "The Self-Clogging Escape Valve" (6/91) "The Camera As Weapon" (7/91) "Continuity" (8/91) "How-To" (9/91) "Experience Required" (10/91) "Mass" (11/91) "A Speedy Trial" (12/91) "The Perils of Victory" (Mid-12/91) 1992 "God by Default" (1/92) "The Right to Hide Arms" (2/92) "E Pluribus Zero" (4/92) "Education for Change" (5/92) "Accept No Substitutes" (6/92) "Tilting with Straw Men" (7/92) "Reader's Choice" (8/92) "Two-Stage Process" (9/92) "Ex Post Facto Ethics" (10/92) "Home Rule" (11/92) "Eumemics" (12/92) "Beyond Them and Us" (Mid-12/92) 1993 "Evolution and Ethics" (1/93) "The Manuscript That Never Was" (2/93) "Inappropriate Technology" (3/93) "A Second Chance" (4/93) "Test-Driving the Future" (5/93) "Crosstalk" (6/93) "Really Foreign Languages" (7/93) "Upstart Instruments" (8/93) "Magic" (9/93) "Nouveaux Clichés" (10/93) "Mama Knows Best" (11/93) "The Ironic Epidemic" (12/93) "Education for All" (Mid-12/93) 1994 "Job Opening" (1/94) "Megachoice" (2/94) "Too Obvious to See" (3/94) "Service Calls" (4/94) "Authenticity" (6/94) "The Age of the Pussyfoot" (7/94) "Interference" (8/94) "Evil Spirits" (9/94) "Please Accept Substitutes" (10/94) "Statistics Abuse" (11/94) "Default Options" (12/94) "Wishful Egalitarianism" (Mid-12/94) 1995 "Cold Fusion Conundrum" (1/95) "Excuses and Evolution" (2/95) "The Political Jupiter Effect" (3/95) "Technology and Taste" (4/95) "What's Good for the Goose Is Good for the Giraffe" (5/95) "Deathwatch for Freedom" (7/95) "The Anonymous Society" (8/95) "Dedication" (9/95) "Achievement Test" (10/95) "Bold and Timid Prophets" (11/95) "Relevance" (12/95) "Now You See It" (Mid-12/95) 1996 "Mirrors for Reality" (1/96) "By Bread Alone" (2/96) "The Feeling of Reality" (3/96) "Why We Must Go to the Stars" [as by Kelvin Throop] (4/96) "Catch-Up Time" (5/96) "Unlicensed Practice" (6/96) "The Other Side of Borderless" (8/96) "I/O" (9/96) "The Forever Fallacy" (10/96) "The Dark Side of Clarke's Law" (11/96) "The New Evangelists" (12/96) 1997 "Too Hard?" (1/97) "The All Or Nothing Fallacy" (2/97) "Style and Substance, Horse and Cart" (3/97) "Public Versus Private" (4/97) "A Bad Time for Aliens" (5/97) "New Attitudes for New Frontiers" (6/97) "The Orphan Experiment" (7-8/97) "Nature versus and Nurture" (9/97) "Prophetic Déjà Vu" (10/97) "The Big Bad Bag Bug" (11/97) "E Pluribus How Many?" (12/97) 1998 "Natural Succession" (1/98) "The Return of MR. Robot" (2/98) "Defenders of the Faiths" (3/98) "Secret Weapons" (4/98) "Snakes or Paychecks: Is That the Question?" (5/98) "Interesting Research" (6/98) "King of the Hill (No Matter What)" (7-8/98) "Invisible Enemies, Intelligent Choices" (9/98) "The Fermi Plague" (10/98) "Whose Language Is It, Anyway?" (11/98) "Quality Control II: Reminder and Speculation" (12/98) 1999 "Haste Makes Haste" (1/99) "Time-Unbinding" (2/99) "Much Ado About Very Little" (3/99) "Rights vs. Rightness" (4/99) "One Crystal Ball, Slightly Used" (5/99) "The Bug and the Buffalo" (6/99) "Political Correction" (7/99) "The Frugal Physicist" (9/99) "Initial Conditions" (10/99) "Technological Temptation" (11/99) "Hardly Ever Say Never" (12/99)

"A Double Celebration" (1/2000)
"Applied Memetics" (2/00)
"The Red Queen's Race" (3/00)
"The Efficiency Trap" (4/00)
"Do Something!" (5/00)
"Asteroids and Lotteries" (6/00)
"Blunt Instruments" (7/00)
"Leap of Faith" (9/00)
"Stress Management" (10/00)
"Big Brother and Pinocchio" (11/00)
"Child's Play" (12/00)
"Political Enropy Revisited" (1/01)
"Child's Play II" (2/01)
"Redefining Copyright" (3/01)
"Beliefs and Believers" (4/01)
"A Perfect Fit" (5/01)
"About Science Fiction" (6/01)
"Pivotal Events" (7/01)
"Temporal Provincialism" (9/01)
"Immortality for Whom?" (10/01)
"Barren Lands, Barren Minds" (11/01)
"The High-Tech Gold Rush" (12/01)
"Magic Bullets" (1/02)
"Monsters" (2/02)
"Musings from the Bioethical Frontier" (3/02)
"The Throwaway Mentality" (4/02)
"A Deadly Fog" (5/02)
"Perspective" (6/02)
"Ecorestoration" (7/02)
"Flawed Experiment" (9/02)
"Hot Buttons, Hot Cars, and Evolution" (10/02)
"To Describe or Prescribe" (11/02)
"Design Flaw" (12/02)
"Driving Forces" (1/03)
"Useful Delusions and Deadly Faith" (2/03)
"The Return of the Mad Scientist" (3/03)
"Still Guessing, After All These Years" (4/03)
"The Ground Floor" (5/03)
"A Time To Be Wrong" (6/03)
"A Fragile Cornerstone" (7/03)
"Fitting Memorials" (9/03)
"Scarce Skills and Scattered Substitutes" (10/03)
"Missing the Point" (11/03)
"Child, Village, and Bug" (12/03)
"Spreading the Word" (1-2/04)
"Achilles' Grid" (3/04)
"A Billion Big Brothers" (4/04)
"Do All Roads Lead?" (5/04)
"Who Needs Company?" (6/04)
"The Price of Freedom" (7-8/04)
"Is There a Doctor on the Planet?" (9/04)
"The Vanishing Repairman" (10/04)
"Attack of the Giant Oxymorons" (11/04)
"Top Predator" (12/04)
"A Diamond Milestone" (1-2/05)
"A Noisy Signal" (3/05)
"Whence Comes Morality?" (4/05)
"Alibis, Safety, and Freedom" (5/05)
"Zero-Pollution Solutions" (6/05)
"Inevitable Clichés" (7-8/05)
"Softening Us Up" (9/05) (#298)
"Cowardice in the Classroom" (10/05)
"Diffuse Tyranny" (11/05)
"No Politics, Please" (12/05)
"The Anthropocentric Principle" (1-2/06)
"The Real and the Readable" (3/06)
"Poison and Hospitality" (4/06)
"Home, Vulnerable Home" (5/06)
"Can't Argue With That" (6/06)
"Wheat and Chaff" (7-8/06)
"Science, Journalism, and Responsibility" (9/06)
"Needle With a Nametag" (10/06)
"The Tyranny of Physical Law" (11/06)
"Extracurricular Education" (12/06)

2007

"The Cheesesteak Nazi, the Colonel, and the Food Police" (1-2/07)
"New Writers" (3/07)
"Citizen Science" (4/07)
"Metascience and Mail Fraud" (5/07)
"Foggy Borderlands" (6/07)
"The Capacity of Dreams" (7-8/07)
"Adapting" (9/07)
"Gestures" (10/07)
"Double Standard Required" (11/07)
“…Help the Medicine Go Down” (12/07)

2008

“Attention” (1-2/08)
“Which Stitch in Time?” (3/08)