We are all a part of nature / Diane Ackerman. Desperate measures / Atul Gawande -- Mars as bright as Venus / John Updike -- Fun with physics / K.C. Cole -- Strange nuggets / Oliver Morton -- Mapping of cosmos backs big bang theory / Keay Davidson -- Gravity in reverse / Neil DeGrasse Tyson -- One cosmic question, too many answers / Dennis Overbye -- How to grow old / Sherwin B. Nuland -- Signs of life / Aaron E. Hirsh -- Reading minds / Ian Parker -- Science of strategy / Tom Siegfried -- Cracking the Harvard X-files / Kaja Perina -- A Tense border's more peaceful past / John Noble Wilford -- Comet's tale: on the science of apocalypse / Tom Bissell -- Transsexual frogs / Elizabeth Royte -- Leashing the rattlesnake / Susan Milius -- What Galileo saw / Michael Benson -- Celestial spectroscopy: making reality fit the myth / Barbara J. Becker -- Patient predator / Kevin Patterson -- Cruising on the ark of taste / Michael Pollan -- Columbia's last flight / William Langewiesche -- We are all a part of nature / Diane Ackerman.
Summary:
An annual compilation features a selection of the year's most significant writings on key scientific developments in genetics, physics, cognition, evolutionary theory, astronomy, and other fields.
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