This month we check out Chuck Close, an artist who turned his
attention-deficit disorder into a new style of painting. We also meet a
man with such a long attention span that he read a 21,000-page
dictionary cover to cover. We also see what's new in the world of
robots, and what's vanishing from the animal world.

Don't miss a new Muserology, in which middle schoolers ponder the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune--and donuts.