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Foreword | p. xi |
Introduction | p. xv |
Visions of Space | |
The Believer from GQ | p. 3 |
One Giant Leap to Nowhere from The New York Times | p. 16 |
The Missions of Astronomy from The New York Review of Books | p. 23 |
Cosmic Vision from National Geographic | p. 32 |
Seeking New Earths from National Geographic | p. 40 |
Neurology Displacing Molecular Biology | |
Don't! from The New Yorker | p. 47 |
Out of the Past from Discover | p. 61 |
Brain Games from The New Yorker | p. 73 |
Natural Beauty | |
The Alpha Accipiter from Minnesota Conservation Volunteer | p. 99 |
Flight of the Kuaka from Living Bird | p. 106 |
Modern Darwins from National Geographic | p. 114 |
The Superior Civilization from The New York Review of Books | p. 122 |
Still Blue from National Geographic | p. 133 |
The Lazarus Effect from Discover | p. 144 |
Darwin's First Clues from National Geographic | p. 149 |
The Environment: Gloom and Doom | |
All You Can Eat from Orion | p. 161 |
A Formula for Disaster from Wired | p. 172 |
Not So Silent Spring from Conservation Magazine | p. 182 |
The Catastrophist from The New Yorker | p. 188 |
The Sixth Extinction? from The New Yorker | p. 202 |
The Environment: Small Blessings | |
Scraping Bottom from National Geographic | p. 229 |
A Life of Its Own from The New Yorker | p. 239 |
Purpose-Driven Life from The American Scholar | p. 259 |
The Monkey and the Fish from The New Yorker | p. 272 |
The Environment: Big Blessings | |
Graze Anatomy from OnEarth | p. 301 |
Hearth Surgery from The New Yorker | p. 311 |
Green Giant from The New Yorker | p. 334 |
India, Enlightened from OnEarth | p. 352 |
Contributors' Notes | p. 377 |
Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 2009 | p. 383 |
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