| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 258 p ; 25 cm. |
| Contents |
When doctors make mistakes / Atul Gawande -- Of mice and elephants: a matter of scale / George Johnson -- Lord of the flies / Jonathan Weiner -- The Biotech death of Jesse Gelsinger / Sheryl Gay Stolberg -- Close encounters / Deborah M. Gordon -- Antarctic dreams / Francis Halzen -- Interstellar spaceflight: can we travel to other stars / Timothy Ferris -- Journey to the center of my mind / Stephen S. Hall -- Gray area: thinking with a damaged brain / Floyd Skloot. |
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Close encounters: an artist shows that size affects shape / Denis G. Pelli -- Analogy as the core of cognition / Douglas R. Hofstadter -- Revolutionary new insoles combine five forms of pseudoscience / The Onion -- Brilliant light / Oliver Sacks -- Lab notes / Don Asher -- Furs for evening, but cloth was the stone age standby / Natalie Angier -- A division of worms / Stephen Jay Gould -- Must dog eat dog? / Susan McCarthy -- Einstein's Clocks: The place of time / Peter Galison -- A designer universe? / Steven Weinberg. |
| Subject |
Science.
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Technical writing.
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| Added Author |
Gleick, James.
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| Added Title |
The best American science writing 2000. |
| ISBN |
006019734X $27.50 |
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0060957360 |
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