In Rome's basement / Plastic ocean / For the love of lemurs / Rabbit on Mars / Fishering / Dinosaur shocker! / Cooking for eggheads / Cyber-neologoliferation / Final frontier / How to get a nuclear bomb / Effeminate sheep / Let there be light / Nature of violence / Germs of life / Neanderthal Man / Health secrets from the morgue / Hitler's willing archaeologists / Sex, lies, and video games / Flu hunter / Notes on the space we take / Olfactory lives of primates / Ruffled feathers / In the company of bears / Rape of Appalachia / First soldier of the gene wars / Plan to keep carbon in check / Delusions of space enthusiasts / DNA is not destiny / Contributors' notes -- Other notable science and nature writing of 2006.