The Best American Science Writing 2000
By: guest editor: James Gleick
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Best American Science Writing
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780060957360
Subjects: Technical writing; Science; Didactisch proza; Wetenschap
Description: "The first volume in this annual series of the best science writing by Americans, ... selected by bestselling author James Gleick," series editor, Jesse Cohen.--Cover.
Table of contents: title: When doctors make mistakes  -- Atul Gawande; title: Of mice and elephants: a matter of scale  -- George Johnson; title: Lord of the flies  -- Jonathan Weiner; title: The Biotech death of Jesse Gelsinger  -- Sheryl Gay Stolberg; title: Close encounters  -- Deborah M. Gordon; title: Antarctic dreams  -- Francis Halzen; title: Interstellar spaceflight: can we travel to other stars  -- Timothy Ferris; title: Journey to the center of my mind  -- Stephen S. Hall; title: Gray area: thinking with a damaged brain -- Floyd Skloot.; title: Close encounters: an artist shows that size affects shape  -- Denis G. Pelli; title: Analogy as the core of cognition  -- Douglas R. Hofstadter; title: Revolutionary new insoles combine five forms of pseudoscience  -- The Onion; title: Brilliant light  -- Oliver Sacks; title: Lab notes  -- Don Asher; title: Furs for evening, but cloth was the stone age standby  -- Natalie Angier; title: A division of worms  -- Stephen Jay Gould; title: Must dog eat dog?  -- Susan McCarthy; title: Einstein's Clocks: The place of time  -- Peter Galison; title: A designer universe? -- Steven Weinberg.