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The Best American Science Writing 2004 (Best American Science Writing)
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Table of Contents
Dava Sobel.
Introduction
Page vii
Jennifer Kahn.
Stripped for Parts
Page 1
Atul Gawande.
Desperate Measures
Page 8
John Updike.
Mars as Bright as Venus
Page 29
K. C. Cole.
Fun with Physics
Page 30
Oliver Morton.
Strange Nuggets
Page 42
Keay Davidson.
Mapping of Cosmos Backs Big Bang Theory
Page 50
Neil Degrasse Tyson.
Gravity in Reverse
Page 53
Dennis Overbye.
One Cosmic Question, Too Many Answers
Page 61
Sherwin B. Nuland.
How to Grow Old
Page 69
Aaron E. Hirsh.
Signs of Life
Page 79
Ian Parker.
Reading Minds
Page 89
Tom Siegfried.
The Science of Strategy
Page 109
Kaja Perina.
Cracking the Harvard X-Files
Page 115
John Noble Wilford.
A Tense Border's More Peaceful Past
Page 124
Tom Bissell.
A Comet's Tale: On the Science of Apocalypse
Page 129
Elizabeth Royte.
Transsexual Frogs
Page 155
Susan Milius.
Leashing the Rattlesnake
Page 164
Michael Benson.
What Galileo Saw
Page 171
Barbara J. Becker.
Celestial Spectroscopy: Making Reality Fit the Myth
Page 182
Kevin Patterson.
The Patient Predator
Page 188
Michael Pollan.
Cruising on the Ark of Taste
Page 201
William Langewiesche.
Columbia's Last Flight
Page 207
Diane Ackerman.
We Are All a Part of Nature
Page 251
About the Contributors
Page 255
Acknowledgments
Page 269
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Includes bibliographical references.
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