"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)
"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)
2000
"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)
2001
"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)
2002
"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)
2003
"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)
2004
"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)
2005
"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)
2006
"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)
“Mirrors and Might-Have-Beens” (4/08)
“Ups and Downs” (5/08)
“Our Most Important Product” (6/08)
“Choosing Tools” (7-8/08)
“’It’s All About Me,’ Writ Large” (9/08)
“RSVP” (10/08)
“The Great Rush Forward” (11/08)
“Relativity” (12/08)
2009
“Loose Ends, Missed Points, and Tangents” (1-2/09)
“Can’t Get There From Here?” (3/09)
“Research I” (4/09)
“Noisy Signals” (5/09)
“Signs of Respect” (6/09)
“Wild Goose Chase” (7-8/09)
“Where Credit Is Due” (9/09)
“Only Following Orders” (10/09)
“Aiming High—Or Low?” (11/09)
“Control” (12/09)
2010
“The Future of Futures” (1-2/10)
“The Twisted Art of Argument” (3/10)
“The Rest of the Data” (4/10)
“Growing Pains” (5/10)
“Primer” (6/10)
“Analog, Digital, and Us” (7-8/10)
“The Halo Handicap” (9/10)
“Sentience and Simplicity” (10/10)
“Rules and Reasons” (11/10)
“Euthanizing the Euphemism” (12/10)
2011
“Alternatives Past And Future” (1-2/11) ”Adjectives That Aren’t” (3/11) “A Seasonal Dilemma” (4/11)
“Too Easy?” (5/11) “Over the River and Through the Woods” (6/11) “Division of Labor” (7-8/11) “False Alarms and Invisible Triumphs” (9/11) “The New Way In” (10/11) “Simple Solutions” (11/11) “How Far the Frontier” (12/11)
2012-13
“Outliers, Evil Spirits, And Perspective” (1-2/12) “What’s Technology For?” (3/12) “Policy” (4/12) “Scientific Methods” (5/12) “VIPs” (6/12) “The City ‘Solution’” (7-8/12) “Is Learning Obsolete?” (9/12) “Newfangling Words” (10/12) “Academic License” (11/12)
“Enough Evidence” (12/12)
“A Very Loud Ho-hum” (1-2/13)
“Time for a Change” (3/13)