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9780060197346

The Best American Science Writing 2000

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  • ISBN13:

    9780060197346

  • ISBN10:

    006019734X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-08-17
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publications
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Summary

(The Ecco Press) The first in an annual series of the best science writing by Americans. A compilation of essays from such notable authors as Nobel Laureate physicist Steven Weinberg, Pulitzer Prize winner Natalie Angier, Darwinian theorist Steven Jay Gould, and bestselling author Oliver Sacks. Also available in softcover and audio versions.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
James Gleick
When Doctors Make Mistakes
1(22)
Atul Gawande
Of Mice and Elephants: A Matter of Scale
23(7)
George Johnson
Lord of the Flies
30(15)
Jonathan Weiner
The Biotech Death of Jesse Gelsinger
45(12)
Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Close Encounters
57(9)
Deborah M. Gordon
Antarctic Dreams
66(11)
Francis Halzen
Interstellar Spaceflight: Can We Travel to Other Stars?
77(6)
Timothy Ferris
Journey to the Center of My Mind
83(12)
Stephen S. Hall
Gray Area: Thinking with a Damaged Brain
95(13)
Floyd Skloot
Close Encounters: An Artist Shows That Size Affects Shape
108(8)
Denis G. Pelli
Analogy as the Core of Cognition
116(29)
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Revolutionary New Insoles Combine Five Forms of Pseudoscience
145(2)
The Onion
Brilliant Light
147(10)
Oliver Sacks
Lab Notes
157(15)
Don Asher
Furs for Evening, but Cloth Was the Stone Age Standby
172(6)
Natalie Angier
A Division of Worms
178(27)
Stephen Jay Gould
Must Dog Eat Dog?
205(8)
Susan McCarthy
Einstein's Clocks: The Place of Time
213(26)
Peter Galison
A Designer Universe?
239(10)
Steven Weinberg
About the Contributors 249

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