num_pages: 336
description: “Scientific writing at its very best” (Wall Street Journal), these twenty-nine essays emphasize the breadth and humanity of the scientific endeavor. All royalties benefit Share Our Strength’s antihunger programs.	Walking in time / Timothy Ferris --First birth / Alan Lightman --Somebody else's cosmology / Anthony Aveni --A detective story / Bruce Gregory --Is science common sense? / Lawrence E. Joseph --Rediscovering creation / Lawrence M. Krauss --In the beginning / Harold Morowitz --Of tracks and the river / James O. Farlow --The search for Eve / Michael H. Brown --Who was Neanderthal? Who are we? / James Trefil --Why is it like something to be alive? / Robert Wright --The mind of a neurologist / Harold Klawans --Computers near the threshold? / Martin Gardner --Quantum liaisons / David H. Freedman --Walking with Ted / Hans Christian von Baeyer --The theory of the universe? / Michio Kaku --The law of gravity, the law of levity, and Murphy's law / Judith Stone --Time reversal / A. Zee --Does anybody know the right time? / Robert H. March --How memory speaks / John Kotre --The grandeur of the Grand Canyon / Diane Ackerman --Save the swamps! / James Gorman --The green fuse / Christopher Joyce --Pulling the handle off the pump / Peter Radetsky --Peering into shadows / Thomas Levenson --Reductio expansioque ad absurdum / Douglas R. Hofstadter --Where's home, cowboy? / Dennis Overbye --2 rms riv vu / Lawrence A. Marschall --The discovery / Robert M. Hazen
language: English
title: Mysteries of Life and the Universe: New Essays from America's Finest Writers on Science
titlecomplete: Mysteries of Life and the Universe: New Essays from America's Finest Writers on Science
genres: Science, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Mariner Books