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Tables of Contents for The Best American Science Writing 2000
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
vii
James Gleick
When Doctors Make Mistakes
1
22
Atul Gawande
Of Mice and Elephants: A Matter of Scale
23
7
George Johnson
Lord of the Flies
30
15
Jonathan Weiner
The Biotech Death of Jesse Gelsinger
45
12
Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Close Encounters
57
9
Deborah M. Gordon
Antarctic Dreams
66
11
Francis Halzen
Interstellar Spaceflight: Can We Travel to Other Stars?
77
6
Timothy Ferris
Journey to the Center of My Mind
83
12
Stephen S. Hall
Gray Area: Thinking with a Damaged Brain
95
13
Floyd Skloot
Close Encounters: An Artist Shows That Size Affects Shape
108
8
Denis G. Pelli
Analogy as the Core of Cognition
116
29
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Revolutionary New Insoles Combine Five Forms of Pseudoscience
145
2
The Onion
Brilliant Light
147
10
Oliver Sacks
Lab Notes
157
15
Don Asher
Furs for Evening, but Cloth Was the Stone Age Standby
172
6
Natalie Angier
A Division of Worms
178
27
Stephen Jay Gould
Must Dog Eat Dog?
205
8
Susan McCarthy
Einstein's Clocks: The Place of Time
213
26
Peter Galison
A Designer Universe?
239
10
Steven Weinberg
About the Contributors
249