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The Best American science writing 2000
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- Creator
- guest editor: James Gleick
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York, NY : Ecco Press, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- x, 258 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780060197346, 006019734X, 9780060957360, 0060957360
- OCLC
- ocm44969866
- 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
- 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